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30 or 50 fps?

Where did you paid for the subscription?

Can't find anything in the F1 site..

New theme with music video:



I don't dislike this music, But I just feel like it's the sort of thing you would hear in a generic action movie or something & so I don't think it really suits F1. I think I get what they were going for, Just not sure that really works or was even necessary for F1.

It isn't on the F1 site. A beta version of the F1TV site went up accidentally, Those who found the link were able to sign up but as soon as F1 found out the link was public it got taken down.

That's the first time I heard it, and I really like it tbh. It's suitably dramatic for Liberty's direction. Great video compilation too; top marks for the random Murray interjections

Hakkinen's Adelaide crash at 59 seconds, real classy

they forgot to pick some good crashes to feature the DRAMA!!! that was de Cesaris at Österreichring/1985 and Webber vaulting on Kovalainen at Valencia/2010

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This tune was better now with the video, apart from that Häkkinen Adelaide crash. Sure, he survived and became a double world champion and was the only driver who Michael Schumacher felt to be equal, but still. The composer's comments at the end was good. Good to know that "a fan" did this and not just someone who took the cheque.

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I much rahter prefer having Hakkinen's crash than Senna's final onboard moments (2:05), which is a much more morbid.

As for the song: If it's just to play a few seconds as a jingle during the world feed opening, it works.

Sounds like some has taken all the good bits from a Two Steps from Hell album and mixed them together.

This is about F1 or Dolph Lundgren?

Hill plays Cromwell vs. the Rump Parliament of Mercedes and Ferrari.

The big manufacturers will take over FE soon too. The days of privateers being the feel god story are long, long gone. This is business first and foremost. Business and politics.

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They should pick 2 of the following 3 propositions

-cost cap to level out competition to driver effort
-BoP to level out competition to driver effort
-ban on all aero devices that create vortex and thus dirty air to improve close racing and overtaking

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Mercedes' Twitter team with a swing and a miss:




Not sure what point they were trying to make there, given that one year of top-line Renault power had him beaten by a Ford-powered privateer, and another had him being fully owned by the same Renault engine in the same privateer team

You're talking about ratings in America but I'd like to make some comments about F1 ratings in general.

If you ask me today what I think about F1 ratings, I'd say ratings will rise a little bit under Liberty's efforts, but these numbers have to be read under a critical look. Two things that have to be thought by Formula One fans under a strategic point of view:

- Better ratings today mean an artificial growth.
- It's exclusively result from aggressive campaigns. (it's not something natural, it is conquered on the basis of a hard investment).

This chart is "beautiful" at first then comes the challenges. There's a basic law in Marketing and Advertising studies, If you don't convert artificial growth in natural growth, the downward trend is large and probably irreversible. Advertising cannot hold F1's breath for so long, you'll have to emulate the same levels of passion the series used to radiate in the past....Unfortunately, this is not F1's reality today.

The numbers and statistics prove worrying things about F1. Before Liberty Media, F1 experienced a huge consecutive decline in its interests for the past 15, 20 years. So, when you see Liberty Media trying desparate things, investing a lot in advertising and so on.....then this is not a good sign. I see much further than today, I see F1 diving into a precarious situation in a near future.

Bloody hell has Damon Hill swallowed the same miserable old fuck pills as Martin Brundle? These two usual company men party line followers have really gone off the rails this weekend, maybe it's the jetlag? (Not that I disagree with their sentiments, I just find it amusing of all the people not following the party line, it's these two, all while Crofty and Ted bang on about how fantastic the FIA and Halo are for introducing such fantastic safety innovations).

Perhaps it's an age thing.

Hill and Brundle are old school drivers, you can understand them. I wonder what would have happened if Brundle said on air what he really thinks about modern F1.

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Damon was always a reserved chap when he was racing (people often said he was too nice to be a racing driver), always careful with what he said so its refreshing that he no longer holds back from telling it like it is.

He did in the pre-FP3 show, it wasn't nice. FakeJake looked like someone had shot his dog and quickly changed the subject.

What I find surprising is both are such company men, toe the party line, so this is unusual, it's nowt to do with them being old school, although maybe the Halo was the straw that broke the camels back so to speak.

What Hill is saying is correct, but it was not much different in his days. Big teams that had other interests than the smaller teams, making it impossible to reach unanimous decisions. Teams threatening with breakawayseries. FIA not able to do something about it. Politics being more important than the sport. It is indeed one of the problems of modern F1, but I can't remember when it was different.