2014 Random F1 Discussion

RtN · PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 8:46 pm

The BBC doesn't allow those sorts of comments, and besides in this case it's all people who see through the BBC's extensive PR campaign for Wolff, which is pleasantly surprising. Simona even gets brought up a couple of times.

kals · PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 9:52 pm

I clicked the red 'x' top right corner when I started reading the typical Danica bashing/comparisons and 'women should stay in the kitchen' comments. Utter bullshit drivel.

RtN · PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 10:03 pm

I can't even find the word kitchen in the comments. I was expecting to, but all of the most popular comments seem to be intelligent contributions, and not at all negative about the idea of women driving in Formula 1.

kals · PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 10:19 pm

I'm guessing some of the comments I saw have been moderated. The article is as you'd expect from that author.

But then again Suzie is marketable, British and part of one the most historic of current F1 organizations. She's not devoid of talent even if she's not on Simona's level. Yes she got into F1 because of Toto, but she didn't get through the junior rankings and into DTM thanks to him.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 10:53 pm

a brazilian journalist received a press release with the following

Quote:

Starting 2015 Simona De Silvestro is expected to make her debut as full time Formula 1 pilot, the first female to do so since Lella Lombardi in 1976.

quite hard to believe they'll give her a seat already in 2015

Fish88 · PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 11:05 pm

Well she has a rich backer (which came forward during the test in Maranello where they changed the livery completely to the sponsors logo) and actually some decent results in Open Wheel racing.

I back this much more than the bullshit Williams is spitting out with the wife of Toto Wolff, she actually has some potential/talent. Altough I doubt she would have come this far is she would have been a boy, I really look forward to what she can do.

RtN · PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 11:24 pm

I believe Simona's results in Formula Atlantics would have gotten her a stab at Indycar regardless.

kals wrote:

I'm guessing some of the comments I saw have been moderated. The article is as you'd expect from that author.

But then again Suzie is marketable, British and part of one the most historic of current F1 organizations. She's not devoid of talent even if she's not on Simona's level. Yes she got into F1 because of Toto, but she didn't get through the junior rankings and into DTM thanks to him.

What junior progress? She did 3 seasons of FR2.0, then had a year with only 1 weekend each of British F3 and PCC UK...and then somehow went from that to DTM, which is perplexing.

Fabs · PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 11:41 pm

RAIN

Oh wait there's no race topic yet

kals · PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 12:56 am

RtN wrote:

I believe Simona's results in Formula Atlantics would have gotten her a stab at Indycar regardless.

kals wrote:

I'm guessing some of the comments I saw have been moderated. The article is as you'd expect from that author.

But then again Suzie is marketable, British and part of one the most historic of current F1 organizations. She's not devoid of talent even if she's not on Simona's level. Yes she got into F1 because of Toto, but she didn't get through the junior rankings and into DTM thanks to him.

What junior progress? She did 3 seasons of FR2.0, then had a year with only 1 weekend each of British F3 and PCC UK...and then somehow went from that to DTM, which is perplexing.

Perplexing? If you think so.

She was a female driver doing well (5th in FR2.0 in 2004 with some very decent results) at a time when female drivers were sought after and making headlines (Danica, Legge, etc...). So she was strong marketable material and wasn't doing a bad job in the junior ranks, ankle injury in 2005 aside.

If you don't like the attention she's getting then it's probably best to ignore it. She'll get more attention than Simona, despite not being as talented, thanks to who her husband is. But let's remember, and as I've already said, she's not without talent and she's certainly no Giovanna Amati.

J.Morelli · PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 1:08 am

Globo is officially resigning its live feed of F1's Saturday Qualifying. There were 23 years of live qualifying in Globo TV (1991-2014). Now, all qualifying sessions are going to be shown live on Sportv who had already started broadcasting Friday free practices live some 7 years ago.

F1 in Brazil is slowly and slowly becoming an entertainment for cable tv only. I believe in 2015, If rating keeps going down low, we'll have races on Sportv too. Well, this is trending in other parts of the World too.

But it feels weird because 15 years ago, Formula One in Brazil was as pretigious as a football, now it's really struggling to keep its viewers.

kals · PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 1:23 am

So that's no different to what's happened in England then?

amq55 · PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 2:57 am

Portugal doesn't have F1 on public TV since Tiago Monteiro left. We got used to it.

Juihi · PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 3:05 am

Been on sky here in NZ since 2006, have to pay around $60 a month

webbsy · PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 7:45 am

Juihi wrote:

Been on sky here in NZ since 2006, have to pay around $60 a month

That's for full package?

ellis · PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 8:01 am

kals wrote:

So that's no different to what's happened in England then?

In the UK we had the unique situation of competition actually being a bad thing. Sky announced their coverage and a dedicated F1 channel with all of these awesome plans for amazing shows. Those shows haven't happened and they've just been repeating the same stuff they recorded years ago, with the occasional new one thrown in. Rather than spending money on developing their own crew and channel, they just bought the best of the BBC (Brundle, Ted K, Herbert) and took commentators from elsewhere (Croft), which left Sky with a sort of half arsed channel where they filled in the immense gap of Eddie Jordan with Damon Hill, and left BBC a stripped down mess where they needed to fill in random gaps.

Competition is meant to be a good thing, but Sky v BBC in the UK was actually a bad thing because Sky just took half of BBCs stuff and we got left with 2 half arsed coverages rather than 1. Sky is better than BBC, and I watch it just for Martin Brundle and Ted K, who are fantastic, but the year of F1 that BBC had before Sky was the best motorsport coverage of any series, anywhere in the world, I've ever seen. Now we have to pay twice (BBC is TV License, must pay that, Sky is subscription) for half as good coverage.

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 12:09 pm

Sochi update, less than 100 days out

http://www.championat.com/photo/auto/12 ... sochi.html

Mika Kimi · PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 2:23 pm

Mika Kimi wrote:

Not a big deal but this isn't going to happen anymore since the FIFA sees the image of the cup as a copyright violation.

FIFA, FIA, all the same.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 3:48 pm

kals wrote:

So that's no different to what's happened in England then?

at least we have a time advantage because only 3 races are in the afternoon time (Canada, USA [not shown due to clash with football] and Brazil), and everything else in the late night/early morning/lunch time so they got no competition with other channels on those times

qualifying I can understand but if they take the morning races then F1 ratings will drop dramatically

Gael · PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 4:15 pm

Mika Kimi wrote:

Not a big deal but this isn't going to happen anymore since the FIFA sees the image of the cup as a copyright violation.

FIFA, FIA, all the same.

Correct, here's the new helmet:

http://espn.go.com/racing/f1/story/_/id ... -world-cup

kals · PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 5:13 pm

ellis wrote:

kals wrote:

So that's no different to what's happened in England then?

In the UK we had the unique situation of competition actually being a bad thing. Sky announced their coverage and a dedicated F1 channel with all of these awesome plans for amazing shows. Those shows haven't happened and they've just been repeating the same stuff they recorded years ago, with the occasional new one thrown in. Rather than spending money on developing their own crew and channel, they just bought the best of the BBC (Brundle, Ted K, Herbert) and took commentators from elsewhere (Croft), which left Sky with a sort of half arsed channel where they filled in the immense gap of Eddie Jordan with Damon Hill, and left BBC a stripped down mess where they needed to fill in random gaps.

Competition is meant to be a good thing, but Sky v BBC in the UK was actually a bad thing because Sky just took half of BBCs stuff and we got left with 2 half arsed coverages rather than 1. Sky is better than BBC, and I watch it just for Martin Brundle and Ted K, who are fantastic, but the year of F1 that BBC had before Sky was the best motorsport coverage of any series, anywhere in the world, I've ever seen. Now we have to pay twice (BBC is TV License, must pay that, Sky is subscription) for half as good coverage.

Thanks for the explanation, having left the UK before Sky took over I'm not aware of all the details.

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