F1 F1 - 2018

I'm hopeful that with all the public criticism they'll be leagues better in two weeks at Bahrain, if not - they face one hell of a battle for continued viewership.

With the actual racing being so ..."non-eventful".......they need something to bring the viewers in, for me the commentary by Matchett and Varsha was a large part of the draw. I'm not seeing the draw with the current guys on Sky - I've met Martin Brundle and like him a bunch, but the other guy des most of the shouting and I can do without him, just like I could do without Leigh Daffey - the other guy who simply can't shut up.

 

Of course...

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The HD version I watched only has a few commercials during the pre and post race shows. During the race, no commercial interruptions.

 

I was disappointed that the most important and exciting parts of the race happened during commercial breaks.
Disappointed that the same thing happened to both cars on the same team.
The idea that Mercedes got their timing off due to a software miscalculation doesn't sound like a plausible explanation.
I wished the Honda motors did better than what they did in this race.

I am happy that the race was broadcast on cable on a channel I have, and I was able to PVR the race.

 

ESPN is very sorry for the car wreck that was its first Formula 1 broadcast

 

I can't believe people are breathlessly awaiting the start of the streaming PAY service! I'm already paying out the ass just to have the commercial riddled version on my TV. Now they're saying if I want to see a GOOD version of the same broadcast I have to pay even more......I don't think so Tim.......

 

Me either.

 

I know that Martin Brundle has the street creds but Will Buxton has the knowledge and the on camera where with all to be so, so much better. I enjoy f1 as much as
everyone but I was plain disappointed in the whole thing.

 

Good race, I thought. Nice to see McLaren finally finish without an explosion or two. Now about that other team I like....

 

I want the pay service because I haven’t had cable in over a decade, and never will again. It’s the second decade of the 21st Centruy, nearly the third, and we do a-la-cart streaming now. The pay service will simply legitimize what I’ve been pirating from necessity.

If you feel that cable is a value for you, then by all means, keep watching those irritating commercials. I’ve not seen a TV show interrupted by commercials in years. I feel like commercial supported television in this century is a scam, honestly. It’s far less expensive to have an internet feed, and two or three channels with content that I actually want to see than a million channels that cost more AND have commercials.

Seriously, look into cutting the cord. It really is the better way to view TV. Sure you might lose some stuff, but with a good antenna, your local channels will still cover most things, plus with HULU Plus, you get most of the big shows within 24 hours of the original broadcast plus back episodes you missed. There’s still too much to watch anyway, so pick the service that best matches your need and go with that. I’ve got Hulu Plus, Netflix, and Amazon Prime which happens to include their shows and free shipping on items ordered, so that last one pays for itself pretty rapidly.

I understand that some rural areas may not have internet speeds that are up to that task, and that’s a shame really. But if it is a possibility, I cannot recommend enough just ditching the dinosaur of Cable TV.

 

For those of you missing Will Buxton, he’s part of the official F1 YouTube channel now.

 

I refuse to pay for an F1 broadcast as much for the fact that the racing is so ridiculously not racing anymore, but I do watch it on regular google fiber, since I have it.

 

We have cable here. I won't be paying for an F1 TV broadcast. If it falls off the cable so be it.

 

I gotta say, the rose colored glasses of what F1 “used to be” is so far out of reality that it always makes me laugh.

Remember when the winners crossed the finish line more than a minute ahead of the number 2? That was how F1 used to be, and how good the racing was.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_British_Grand_Prix

Or let’s go further back to when things were really close and the winner won by over two laps from the number 2.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Australian_Grand_Prix

Or is it the number of pit stops too many? Would you like zero?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Dutch_Grand_Prix

Or how about the lack of overtakes, because there were always more in the past.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Monaco_Grand_Prix
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_European_Grand_Prix

Or maybe you’d like to return to the halcyon days of reliable cars where only 4 might see the finish line?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Monaco_Grand_Prix

Nothing has changed in F1, it’s always been this way, and no matter how nostalgic people are, it’s never consistently been like they remember. None of these records linked above were all that unusual for the time.

It’s fine not to like F1, it’s great to prefer other motorsports, but I would really like people to stop claiming that it was different or better in the old days because they can’t clearly remember that F1 has never been like other races.It’s always been about the long game, about how the season plays, and about the soap-opera drama rather than the close racing.

If people want a different kind of show, they should watch a different kind of show and be happier rather than trying to believe that F1 is something it is not.

And yes, I cherry picked some races that were outliers, but they weren’t that far off the trend of the races of their era. My point is simply that F1 “fans” make the same complaints every year, and that maybe the problem isn’t F1 but their perception of what they think it “should” be rather than how it’s always been.

 

I guess you have to watch it in the YouTube App or on the YouTube site, rather than in links, which is dumb, I agree.

 

Quali WITHOUT commercials............

 

It was always better in the good old days. Now get off my lawn.