2018 F1 Random Discussion Thread

Fabs · PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:19 pm

Amazing, it's like Nascar.

They're cashing in, gg

RtN · PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:21 pm

So that's at least another two overlays for what will be sold in a hopeful tone as 'in-race entertainment', alongside the sponsored replays and the sponsored 'hot lap'.

amq55 · PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 7:24 pm

Hopefully this sort of thing will be contained to this gimmick nonsense, or else we'll end up with:

Quote:

"And Sebastian Vettel takes the checkered flag brought to you by UBS! And now, the celebratory post-finish radio message, powered by Claro: "Es simples, es Claro!"

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 7:33 pm

pretty sure they'll come up with "Champagne spray presented by Carbon", after the "Trophy awards presented by Rolex", all that after "National anthems presented by Pirelli"

Fabs · PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 8:30 pm

The Pirelli piece of shit driver of the race.

thestig88 · PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 9:02 pm

I remember Bernie dissing Juan Montoya when he first came to F1, for doing the American "thanking all the sponsors" speech during every interview.

StefMeister · PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 9:03 pm

ESPN have done a deal to include Sky's pre-race show on ESPN2 (At 12:30am ET this weekend) under the program title 'On The grid'. No word on post race content.

https://espnmediazone.com/us/press-rele ... rand-prix/

Mattzel89 · PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 11:31 pm

So there was a way to log into the F1TV Beta site earlier tonight (has been down again since then)

The quality of the old races was great. Not every race of every season is there, but the races that have been uploaded are there in full - and without commentary. Not even Murray Walker.
The recent seasons contained only a few full races and mainly highlights. The full races that are available come with different audiotracks. Some with natural sounds only, and some with different languages to chose from.

racer612008 · PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 12:26 am

nice to see ESPN give us at least some form of pre-race show.

Fabs · PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 9:40 am

Mattzel89 wrote:

So there was a way to log into the F1TV Beta site earlier tonight (has been down again since then)

The quality of the old races was great. Not every race of every season is there, but the races that have been uploaded are there in full - and without commentary. Not even Murray Walker.
The recent seasons contained only a few full races and mainly highlights. The full races that are available come with different audiotracks. Some with natural sounds only, and some with different languages to chose from.

Hey, so you got it?

I want to subscribe aswell

StefMeister · PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 2:23 pm

DHL DRS Deployment.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/InsideFOM/status/976742447932936192[/tweet]

Maybe explains why they want to add more zones this year.
https://www.racefans.net/2018/03/22/f1- ... drs-zones/

And this shows what each region will get in terms of F1TV.
https://imgur.com/gzzF0ah

UK gets F1TV Access & Archive races

Fabs · PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 2:28 pm

Wtf Belgium gets no F2 & GP3 and only French, Spanish and German commentary? What a joke

Acestream here I come.

cookie · PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 2:53 pm

Only no english in Belgium, wtf? So they are only making it available for the french speaking part I guess since Flanders has it on Telenet sport that no one watches. No money from me for this, ziggo sport stays better value for money then

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 4:09 pm

haha F1 going full american, Bernie will grinds his gears if ratings in America goes higher than ever under Liberty

SBan83 · PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 4:31 pm

Can anyone confirm the name of the Ferrari power unit is 062 EVO or was that the name of the test unit? Also, does the Red Bull power unit have a name beyond just 'Tag Heuer'?

codename_47 · PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 3:41 am

Mattzel89 wrote:

So there was a way to log into the F1TV Beta site earlier tonight (has been down again since then)

The quality of the old races was great. Not every race of every season is there, but the races that have been uploaded are there in full - and without commentary. Not even Murray Walker.
The recent seasons contained only a few full races and mainly highlights. The full races that are available come with different audiotracks. Some with natural sounds only, and some with different languages to chose from.

1981 British GP? Damnnn it goes back far

If only those races came with onboard feeds

Wait...if only they had live on-boards back then :mrgreen:

Ian-S · PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:43 am

They did, we just didn't see it because it only worked for 100 yards every lap the car passed the main grandstand lol (well around that time they started work on cameras, may not have been 81 exactly).

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 10:17 am

First live onboard during a race was the 1985 German GP

thestig88 · PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 10:25 am

Whereas NASCAR had live onboards (called "Race Cam") from 1979! (albeit a much bigger bulkier unit)

Ian-S · PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 12:06 pm

The early problem with the F1 cams, other than size, was someone had to go up on the roof of the highest building nearest the track and manually point an early parabolic antenna at whatever car was carrying the camera, and they often forgot who had the camera or got told to get off the roof by the local plod, and only then did the system work maybe 5% of the time. All because Bernie didn't see the point of an onboard camera and wouldn't let them use the TV helicopters, when he realised his error, he bunged the people who built the system a wad of money for their company and banned them from the tracks lol

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