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the only way to make it happen is to make the whole track facility an exclusion zone where all the racing personell will be allowed to stay until the end of activities. That means either to sleep on the track so the logistics are quite tricky

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What are the realistic chances that Sky will allow CH4 to show races live?
I think having races free to air, in the UK and elsewhere too, is a logical step.

I'm aware that Sky has exclusivity rights in the UK but it would be in F1s best interest to have as many people watching live as possible.

There is zero chance that Sky would do it of their own initiative.

There is a more significant chance that the government will tell them to loan the rights to C4 to make sure that people do not travel to other people's houses in order to watch it. And I suppose there is a chance that Liberty would try the same thing for the reasons you outline - however, this would cost them money and they are already going to be taking a bath on promoter's fees.

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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.

If not C4 maybe allow F1 TV, they already use Sky commentary, to show races live. F1 could pay a portion of revenue from new subscriptions to Sky.

There are a few options to make fans, F1, and Sky happy.

Yes, Sky will be happy with any solution that makes them more money than the current situation. If, for example, the government were to pay them the £80 million or whatever it is that they pay Liberty, to then give the rights to C4, I can't see Sky objecting to that - they still have the revenue from their own F1 subscribers and would be getting the content, in effect, for free.

Of course, if Liberty can't reach 15 races before the end of the year, Sky get their money back anyway, so perhaps that would form part of their decision-making.

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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.

One mechanic per wheel, like in Nascar

If you break your chassis during FP2 or FP3 and can't rebuild before qualy, tough luck. Need a front wing shipped? You race without a wing.

Back to basics! It will spice up the season a bit.

Random staff. Source people from every host city and assign them randomly to each team.

One race Mercedes could have decent mechanics and in the other one they could have a staff worse than Andrea Moda's.

the fun hating bureaucrats that run the sport will claim that will not be deemed safe

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To be fair, it would be a little dangerous to leave the maintenance work of a multi-million dollar death-machine into the hands of inexperienced people.

That's how you get wheels to detach and fly off into the grandstands and... oh wait, silly me, there will be nobody in the grandstands. Just go ahead with the idea.

is not a death machine anymore, they have halo

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But what if a Ferrari fan or even Ferrari crew member is suddenly in charge of changing a wheel on a Mercedes? Imagine a race at Monza, where all pitstops take 30 seconds except those of Ferrari.

Melbourne: wheels are put on upside down.
China: wheels are replaced by plastic wheels, they look the same for a 10th of the price. Wheels desintegrate when coming out of the pits, not their problem.
Bahrain: cars are refueled.
Netherlands: too easy to make stoner jokes.
France: car comes in, people sigh, get up, walk to the car, inspect the car, discuss whose turn it is to change the wheel.
Japan: use robots, pit stops under 1 second.
Interlagos favela: wheels come of, car put on blocks, people and wheels disappear.
USA: locals misinterprete term "wheel gun", only minor injuries.

So I just whacked this video on out of boredom (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSgCpfGknbo) and in the first few seconds it says "2005 Chinese GP, the final race of the season." Wikipedia backs this up. I was watching F1 religiously back then and I don't remember China being the final race of any season. Please tell me I'm not alone?

that makes sense, the championship was decided in Brazil still in september while we had an epic race in Japan so China was like the Abu Dhabi of the day

you were watching that video that showed Montoya hitting the drainage right?

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That China race is when Montoya hit the drain cover and destroyed his car

Also Karthikeyan had that massive crash on the back straight

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Yeah I remember the race, I just don't remember it being the last race of the season. I don't remember the last race being anything other than Suzuka, Interlagos or Abu Dhabi.

I probably posted in the thread on the old TBK. Amazing what you forget

indeed. things could had gone sour with that Sauber barely missing his wreckage.

what a way for Jordan to end his tenure in F1

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Wasn't that Villeneuve in the Sauber?

I don't even remember Narain crashing like that.

Yes. That was him.

Those wheels could have gone anywhere

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