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How much is a subscription for Sky or NBC that covers F1? Over here SportTV charges 25 euros (29 if you want HD) plus your regular TV plan for 2 blokes doing 30 minutes of pre-race and commentary in studio.

Sauber saved got rid of Ericsson, and now is a Ferrari B team.
Hope Leclerc and Giovinazzi get the seats.

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Sorry to come back to this but it was too tempting

Is Ericsson toast?

Maybe it is the logical conclusion of this deal, but I haven't seen it confirmed anywhere.

EDIT: Blick is apparently reporting Ericsson\Leclerc as the lineup.

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Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

We can't have another year with Ericsson wasting a seat!

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Back to the USA TV coverage briefly;



http://www.racer.com/more/viewpoints/it ... mitstart=1

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Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

the cuore alfista returns, what great news. thankfully there'll be Ferrari engines, not that heavy consumption V8 Turbo (approved by Andrea de Cesaris)

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For someone who doesn't and won't watch the US TV coverage, you seem very invested in what happens with F1 on ESPN.

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Just to clarify that when you say approved by de Cesaris, you mean that he rarely needed the fuel tank to last the whole race.

I always read the Mailbag, and this was a relevant snippet.

On a more general level, the US TV deal is a good canary in showing what could happen over the next few years as TV contracts come up for renewal. If Liberty insist on their streaming service being allowed into the market, then they might find themselves without any customers for the TV rights. With ESPN there seems to be some sort of element to the deal that will also allow them to host the F1 streaming service when it launches, so maybe that will become the standard model. Or maybe they will relent completely in some cases.

It is also a indicator of how Liberty will conduct proper business as the owners of F1 - a new logo is a frivolous thing with no third-party interaction. A TV contract is rather more weighty as it is currently F1's biggest source of income. So that is why I find it interesting.

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Marco Simoncelli ¦ 1987-2011
Jules Bianchi ¦ 1989-2015
Justin Wilson ¦ 1978-2015

Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

Yet another red-white-grey team coming up...

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That's a point I considered as I wrote my comment. From a traditional broadcasting / media consumption perspective I can see why people are questioning or even nervous about what Liberty are using ABC/ESPN for. TV isn't the only media option for sports these days, so TV companies are either adapting to different consumer trends or losing viewers.

Expectations need to be in check. If people want and / or expect the same of ESPN that they've seen with Speed and NBC then they may be understandably disappointed. I won't be, but that's only me. However should ESPN do the same or similar to what BEINSports does with MotoGP then that could be received well. Additionally, MotoGP has their own streaming service which does literally compete with TV viewership however the way to look at it is offering the consumer an alternative way to watch all MotoGP sessions plus historic content. Same goes for NHL.

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2017 was a good year, colorwise. Only HAAS - noboringcolorswewillstandout - Ferrari had a boring theme.

pretty much that, I just hope that we could have a new De Cesaris on the grid to spice things up, cars with halo will be better looking crashed and causing SC

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Ericsson needs to go. Giovanazzi is far better

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"Many people ask me why I always sign off Till We Meet Again, because goodbye is always so final. Goodbye Dan Wheldon." -Marty Reid

*Sigh*.....gone are the days when a backmarker would throw the car off the road in a pissy little spin. That's another thing to moan about with current F1...they don't even spin anymore.....though what is much better is that usually there are about 2-3 different camera angles of the rare half spin where as before we used to just get a shot of the car beached in the gravel and maybe if lucky a glimpse of the car coming to a stop.

So there is always that I guess.

Banning the shark fin might change that, it's the same conundrum NASCAR has with their plexiglass shark fins, they stop the cars taking off but they also produce so much side force that the moment the car snaps out, 90% of the time it saves itself due to the side force, and in the event it doesn't, the driver can usually save it by planting the throttle once the car is sideways.

Remove the shark fin and we might get a few more spins, hopefully.

I've seen it mentioned elsewhere that RTL may well be about to lose there F1 coverage as there's currently no deal in place for 2018 & it seems as if Liberty may have told them they won't be renewing it which may be why Niki Lauda apparently quit his RTL role live in there Abu Dhabi post race show.

The Sky Sports F1 channel is £18 a month, However you need to have one of there other channel bundles, The lowest cost's £22 a month & you also need to play £12 extra to get HD. So the lowest price is £40 a month for SD, £55 for HD.

I get SSF1 as part of an older bundle that is no longer available (The Legacy variety HD pack) which works out at £44 a month, Not including the extra £12 charge just because we happen to have a 2nd satellite receiver in the bedroom or what we pay for phone line/broadband that takes out bill upto £85 or so a month depending on call charges:
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You can also get it via there NowTV streaming service, You can't get the F1 channel on its own & the sports pack prices are £6.99 a day, £19.99 a week or £33.99 a month.

There might also be a lot more to the lack of spins than purely technical reasons and car reliability. Drivers themselves are now machines built up for racing since their most tender age. They have racing pumped into their blood and brains, they spend their off-time on life-like simulators, they train physically all the time for racing purpose. Not so long ago, only monomaniac lunatics like Senna, or Schumacher would do it seriously, now it's almost the whole field.
Heck, I was reading an article about Pierre Gasly, and they have psychologists following them regularly since they joined the LeMans academy (so, at about 13yo).