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Excellent coverage from Sky in their first year. Loved every minute of it.
Roll on next year!
Excellent coverage from Sky in their first year. Loved every minute of it.
Roll on next year!
Did I see at the end that all races are live on the Beeb next season?
>>Did I see at the end that all races are live on the Beeb next season?
no the exact words were :
"see australia live next year and the entire season will be covered by the bbc"
this bbc/sky rights is tied up until 2016 i believe.
interesting , webber is no where to be seen....
[url= http://blog.intentsgp.com/post/13541378180/bbc-and-sky-f1-tv-deal-the-winners-and-losers ]2018.[/url]
Karma exists! In the result of the race and the WC. Well done JB and Vettel. Bad luck Lewis but you wrote yourself out of a fairy tale ending. And the guys who bent the rule to their limit/cheated were teased right to the end. How fitting!
I'd love the BBC to get the full rights to show every race again.
Unfortunately it seems like that won't happen for a while.
In the meantime, Sky have been great - especially with all the extra coverage of Practice etc.
Crofty and Brundle and Ted provide the best commentary I've ever experienced in F1.
Crofty and Brundle and Ted provide the best commentary I've ever experienced in F1.
Murray?
Murray?
He wasn't that good TBH, just a character
Love Ted's input on the Sky team, his opposite number on the beeb [Gary Anderson] doesn't really do it IMO, great technical experience but just not delivered well.
i'd love it if in 2013 someone at the back does a Brawn and produces a Caterham or Murissia that wins the title 😉
Bad luck Lewis but you wrote yourself out of a fairy tale ending.
Meaning? Lewis was taken out through no fault of his own.
i'd love it if in 2013 someone at the back does a Brawn and produces a Caterham or Murissia that wins the title
That won't happen - the only reason Brawn did it was because they rose from the ashes of a massive rule change & the r&d Honda had put in the year before in preparation before spectacularly pulling out of F1.
Mikey - I was referring to the karma with Hamilton, not the incident itself.
Mikey - I was referring to the karma with Hamilton, not the incident itself.
What he's done wrong to deserve the bad karma? If it wasn't for reliability & the team letting him down he'd've been right up there in the championship mix
How come nothing happened with vettel passing kobyashi(sp?) under yellows?
How come nothing happened with vettel passing kobyashi(sp?) under yellows?
It wasn't yellows apparently, the FIA confirmed yellow/red
I was at my inlays this weekend who have sky. Funny thing is I decided to watch it on the beeb, I think they have done F1 proud over the past few years and really should not have let it go the way they did.
This will probably be the last few years F1 will ever be one council telly.
Love Ted's input on the Sky team, his opposite number on the beeb [Gary Anderson] doesn't really do it IMO, great technical experience but just not delivered well.
But Ted is just a TV pundit, at least Gary Anderson is actually someone who has worked in F1, designed race-winning cars and has some insight. Ted is a good journalist but still just someone who writes about people like Gary. That said, not watched Sky F1 so maybe I'm wrong
As I said Gary Anderson has great technical knowledge [no doubt EJ got him the gig] but I don't think he delivers it well.
would not surprise me if BBC cut right back now on the coverage and just get 15mins before race/qualy and post race/qualy on the ones they cover.
I would be more than happy with that! I never sit through the full hour build-up anymore
I do wonder how the beeb justify some of the resource they use
10 o'clock news last night they had a man reporting on the race, from the track in Sao Paulo.
They didn't bother with the journo's they had out there for the race coverage, they had someone totally different doing it.
but I don't think he delivers it well.
i've really enjoyed garys imputs - he can break it down very quickly into simple terms and quite funny seeing sky having all the fancy graphics, but not really getting the explination across when compared to gary with a photo print out and a marker pen.
I think Anderson's imput is fantastic. He knows his onions from the ground up, has a wealth of experience and above all, doesn't go for the flavour of the day business bullsh1t sayings. He's clear, knowledgable, credible and adds clarity to the coverage in an interesting/entertaining way. (btw, he's not a family member 🙂 )
What more can you ask from him? At least he's not superficial Jake or idiotic Eddie....
IMO Anderson is a real find for the BBC. Eg - Kravitz spots a new front wing, talks to someone at the team and then reports whatever they told him about it. Anderson looks at a new front wing and works out what the changes are trying to do, reports that and also discusses the strengths and weaknesses of that particular solution. He may not have Ted's clear diction but the content is untouchable. If you've had a chance to listen to him during the free practice coverage then his insight and comment there is fantastic - he gets a bit more air time than during the race coverage.
As for the Beeb cutting F1 - it's still a massive audience for them on a Sunday afternoon, they sell their coverage to umpteen different countries who still take every race live so the BBC team needs to be there. Also AIUI the biggest cost was the levy to Bernie rather than the cost of filming their bits in the pit lane, so the deal with Sky has taken a huge lump sum out of their budget. You'd hope that whoever then signed up to this deal to 2018 got some sort of sign off on the costs before they went public and announced the 'live F1 continues to 2018' news.
Continued 'free' coverage beyond 2018 will depend on the new Concorde agreement as much as anything else - whether the teams (& their sponsors) decide that it's in their commercial interests to have live races seen by the largest audience or to lose exposure in lieu of cash from a pay TV deal. Sadly the fans will always come 2nd to their ability to generate income and continue racing.