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The Formula 1 2011/2012 Off-Season Thread |OT| The Year of the Red Bull

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Edmond Dantès

Dantès the White
So, non-UK GAF who have followed the BEEB's coverage over the past few years; will you continue with the BEEB or go back to your home broadcaster or even attempt to get Sky Sports' coverage somehow?
 
Myoclonic Jerk

Myoclonic Jerk

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Edmond Dantès;34362499 said:
They should have employed Paul Stoddart instead, he was always worth his weight in controversial opinions of the hierarchy of F1.

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I'd go for this.. without subtitles
 
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Dead Man

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Edmond Dantès;34362571 said:
So, non-UK GAF who have followed the BEEB's coverage over the past few years; will you continue with the BEEB or go back to your home broadcaster or even attempt to get Sky Sports' coverage somehow?
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I will still use the local coverage on the TV, with a BBC stream for commentary when available, and I suppose a Sky stream for commentary when not.

Myoclonic Jerk said:
I'd go for this.. without subtitles
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That is amazing. Every sport needs that guy.
 
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Edmond Dantès

Dantès the White
Myoclonic Jerk said:
I'd go for this.. without subtitles
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He's like a Japanese Murray Walker on caffeine pills.


These two would be great F1 commentators, I can imagine them shouting Hamilton está apagadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaQhF-523As Great goal by Zizou by the way.

Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!
 
Myoclonic Jerk

Myoclonic Jerk

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Edmond Dantès;34362760 said:
He's like a Japanese Murray Walker on caffeine pills.


These two would be great F1 commentators, I can imagine them shouting Hamilton está apagadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaQhF-523As Great goal by Zizou by the way.

Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!
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hahahahahaha
 
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Dilly

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Edmond Dantès;34362571 said:
So, non-UK GAF who have followed the BEEB's coverage over the past few years; will you continue with the BEEB or go back to your home broadcaster or even attempt to get Sky Sports' coverage somehow?
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I like to watch sports live so I doubt I'll be watching the BBC except for when they broadcast some of the races live.

Home broadcaster in Dutch sucks and I can't understand French so I'm hoping that I can find a Sky Sports stream somewhere on the internet.

Anyhow, this nonsense made watching F1 a lot harder.
 
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Adamm

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On that subject - I remeber reading the concorde agreement does not allow F1 to go completely Pay-per-view (thats why BBC & Sky have to split it) what will happen if no free broadcaster wants half the races when the BBC/Sky contract runs out? Will sky be forced to give it all up?
And is there anything to stop a new concorde agreement making F1 have to be all free to air?
 
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Wax Free Vanilla

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Humphrey hyping more shit up:

For your info, discussed a #bbcf1 idea this week that will involve all 410,000+ of you at some of the races. Watch this space. #JustPressOne
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Eurosport say Sky have got the GP2 rights, I also read that the BBC had them for (09/10/11) but never showed it. Is this true?
 
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Lach

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Edmond Dantès;34362571 said:
So, non-UK GAF who have followed the BEEB's coverage over the past few years; will you continue with the BEEB or go back to your home broadcaster or even attempt to get Sky Sports' coverage somehow?
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Last year, I decided to pass on watching the races in HD (Swiss Television) and instead watch them on BBC. This year I will watch it on SwissTV in HD but, like Dead Man, will try to optain the BBC Audio Track when available.
 
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Foliorum Viridum

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Oh I agree Bahrain was in a worse situation, but it definitely highlights the hypocrisy.

If they go to Bahrain then I'm okay with the sport just being the sport and ignoring politics, but if they don't go to Bahrain they shouldn't go to China either.
 
Myoclonic Jerk

Myoclonic Jerk

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Edmond Dantès;34364471 said:
I predict that all the liveries will look pretty much the same, with little divergence from the underlying 'theme', except for Marussia and HRT.
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Force India should change a bit because of Sahara
 
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Leonsito

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I predict that Mercedes will debut its car two weeks later than the rest of the teams, lots of rain in the second test (they miss the first) and lot of mechanical failures in the last test, in Australia they will be one second behind the leaders.
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Myoclonic Jerk

Myoclonic Jerk

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Leonsito said:
I predict that Mercedes will debut its car two weeks later than the rest of the teams, lots of rain in the second test (they miss the first) and lot of mechanical failures in the last test, in Australia they will be one second behind the leaders.
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Lotus pulls a Brawn GP..... :p
 
Myoclonic Jerk

Myoclonic Jerk

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Edmond Dantès;34367659 said:
If Alonso wasn't as respected as he is, I'd have thought he was on a wind-up.
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That's just a dig at Vettel, using Hamilton in his claim just to add credibility. Given the history those two have
 
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ashk

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Hamilton to Ferrari in 2013 confirmed

Oh wait he was talking to a German magazine. I guess it's possible he was just trolling them. He could have said Massa was better than Vettel but that would have been too obvious.
 
Myoclonic Jerk

Myoclonic Jerk

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ashk said:
Hamilton to Ferrari in 2013 confirmed

Oh wait he was talking to a German magazine. I guess it's possible he was just trolling them.
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If Ferrari underperforms this year as well, I don't think anyone will link any top driver to them anymore. As much as that would be personally satisfying, I'd hate to see Alonso not winning anything with them
 
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Ark

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Adamm said:
On that subject - I remeber reading the concorde agreement does not allow F1 to go completely Pay-per-view (thats why BBC & Sky have to split it) what will happen if no free broadcaster wants half the races when the BBC/Sky contract runs out? Will sky be forced to give it all up?
And is there anything to stop a new concorde agreement making F1 have to be all free to air?
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The concorde agreement can say all it wants, F1 does not have to be free-to-view by law in the UK. The teams can protest and argue all they like, at the end of the day Burnie will get his way because the teams don't have the meat to back up their threats.

Ferrari threatens to break away every other year, the teams can't even agree on FOTA and the RRA, there's no chance they'll ever be able to agree on creating a new race series, even if the FIA follow suit.

Myoclonic Jerk said:
That's just a dig at Vettel, using Hamilton in his claim just to add credibility. Given the history those two have
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I think people underestimate the amount of respect those two guys have for each other now. Not saying he's not trolling, just saying.
 
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Osiris

I permanently banned my 6 year old daughter from using the PS4 for mistakenly sending grief reports as it's too hard to watch or talk to her
Adamm said:
On that subject - I remeber reading the concorde agreement does not allow F1 to go completely Pay-per-view (thats why BBC & Sky have to split it) what will happen if no free broadcaster wants half the races when the BBC/Sky contract runs out? Will sky be forced to give it all up?
And is there anything to stop a new concorde agreement making F1 have to be all free to air?
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A new Concorde Agreement is due in 2013 as the 2009 agreement is only vald up to December 31, 2012, so we may well see that clause gone.
 
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Adamm

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Ark said:
http://www.skysports.com/video/inline/0,,12870_7438969,00.html

If this is what we have to look forward to this year, I might need to find a new sport to follow.
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Every bit of F1 stuff on Sky Sports News has been terrible. Im hoping its just cause its Sky Sports news & they know that the majority of people watching it are there for football news :p


Edmond Dantès;34370771 said:
He was very nervous, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now. He's certainly not in Eddie Jordan's league in terms of on screen presence or charisma. I'm not sure Sky will use him very often.
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Do we actually know what he will be doing? I really hope he isnt part of the live team going to every race
 
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Ark

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Edmond Dantès;34370771 said:
He was very nervous, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now. He's certainly not in Eddie Jordan's league in terms of on screen presence or charisma. I'm not sure Sky will use him very often.
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I think Damon works half-well when he's in a situation like he was at Silverstone last year, working with pundits that can fill in the gaps. But the quality of Sky's own broadcasters is making me want to sleep.

Adamm said:
Every bit of F1 stuff on Sky Sports News has been terrible. Im hoping its just cause its Sky Sports news & they know that the majority of people watching it are there for football news :p

Do we actually know what he will be doing? I really hope he isnt part of the live team going to every race
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Since F1 has it's own dedicated channel, hopefully it wont get the same appallingly basic Q&A format.

From what I understood, I think Damon is going to be sort of doing what Brundle did in the F1 forum for most of last year, analysing various points of interest around the races, qualifying, practice sessions, etc. Could be wrong though.
 
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Adam Scott Aukerman

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Foliorum Viridum said:
If they go to Bahrain then I'm okay with the sport just being the sport and ignoring politics, but if they don't go to Bahrain they shouldn't go to China either.
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Well there's a few problems with that. If you start cancelling races on moral grounds, then you start to establish a tangible moral line between what F1 deems acceptable and what it doesn't. Yeah, China are fairly notorious when it comes to human rights violations, but they're not the only ones. And could you stop at human rights? Then it would naturally spiral out to sponsors, suppliers... it's a no-win situation.

But what makes Bahrain unique in this respect is that the race is the pet project of the Bahrani royals, and that running the race could be seen as a direct endorsement of them. But still, it's problematic.

Realistically, the only metric by which FOM, the teams and the FIA can go by is whether the race is safe to run.
 
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Wax Free Vanilla

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Damon Hill will only be doing 10 races.

SKY have been testing out their F1 red button interactive options:

1) Sky Sports F1 HD
2) Timing
3) Track Mix
4) Driver Tracker
5) Quad View
6) Onboard
7) Onboard
8) Onboard
9) Onboard

http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/2581/skyf1testmosaic.png
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1844/skyf1testmosaic2.png
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/9863/skyf1testmosaic3.png
http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/5162/skyf1testmosaic4.png
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/5834/skyf1testmosaic5.png
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/6853/skyf1testmosaic6.png
 
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Edmond Dantès

Dantès the White
Wax Free Vanilla said:
Damon Hill will only be doing 10 races.

SKY have been testing out their F1 red button interactive options:

1) Sky Sports F1 HD
2) Timing
3) Track Mix
4) Driver Tracker
5) Quad View
6) Onboard
7) Onboard
8) Onboard
9) Onboard

http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/...ld do without the Twitter stuff to be honest.
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Chris R

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Edmond Dantès;34379901 said:
Looks pretty good, but I could do without the Twitter stuff to be honest.
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Depends on what they show. Several of the teams have twitter accounts they they update quite frequently over race weekends.
 
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