I miss formula 1 on the BBC already!!

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Seems like I wont be missing out by not having Sky. I sorted out the LNB on my sat dish, reset channels and I am able to watch F1 on the German channel RTL when it is not being shown on the BBC.

Ok its in German, but its better than nothing at all.

If you have a DAB radio with a pause/time delay facility , a 7 seconds delay on Radio 5 Live will get you in sync so no need to listen to the German commentary.

 

[Cpt. Spavil]

So the BBC are giving up all there sport it seems, Grand National now on channel 4, what sport will they have left Olympics and golf every now and then.

Why do we pay a TV licence we only get shit tv from them, crappy wanky soaps and some shit about people dancing

so true

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Very true, and something that is really taken for granted by the viewers. With the BBC, in an hour, you're going to get 60 mins of sport/sport related coverage, with the other channels you're looking at 40-45 minutes. Big difference. Especially with something like Golf, Tennis and other long sports, in 4 hours you could only end up seeing 3 hours of coverage where as with the Beeb you're guaranteed the full 4 hours.

No adverts on Sky F1 during the race and that is a fact.

Stop sticking up for an outdated institution. They lost the horse racing today because they are more interested in crap soaps and chronic period dramas.

BBC is quite simple old fashioned tosh apart from their wildlife programmes.

TNBA

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[desprateseagull]

BBC will die at we know it, within 3 years.. 5 max.

 

[nomoremithras4me]

Sky coverage pissed all over the Beeb as expected, superb.

 

[Turkey]

I watched both and thought BBC was better. Sky's post race analysis was awful, BBC much better. I also prefer the BBC commentry, I though Ben Edwards was fantastic and Coulthard was very good and quick at calling the key incidents and so on. I'll be watching the non-BBC races on Sky but I think when they are head to head I'll favour BBC.

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

I watched both and thought BBC was better. Sky's post race analysis was awful, BBC much better. I also prefer the BBC commentry, I though Ben Edwards was fantastic and Coulthard was very good and quick at calling the key incidents and so on. I'll be watching the non-BBC races on Sky but I think when they are head to head I'll favour BBC.

Fully agree. As an existing Sky HD customer I am pleased to have the addition of F1 in return for my subscription but for me there was far too much focus on celebrities and hangers on, plus the grid walk and post race waffle in the paddock was rather demeaning of Brundle and Hill. At least they had a British winner to focus on otherwise it could have been painful.

For all the hype about Sky I don't think it is a huge step forward over what the BBC already does. The sound seems better on Sky (a bit like the footie). However this hardly offsets the tiresome padding, especially by presenters not from a motorsport background but then I guess Sky now have to fill out a dedicated channel. I'll give it a few more races to see how things progress.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Now I was thinking that the most important lap was the last one when you got to follow the leader round the track. We just about saw Button cross the line, asca dot on my whacking great big telly. They could have reviewed the disasters of the "also rans" at the end of the race.
I found it a little bit over the top, bimbos and the most stupid questions. Bt like sky coverage of football realy - all bloody promotional hype. I much prefer the more reserved BBC.

 

[Turkey]

To be fair, Sky have no control over the pictures. They're provided by FOM and are the same for everyone.

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Who could ever forget these classic MurrayWalkerisms:

"He's obviously gone in for a wheel change. I say obviously because I can't see it"

"With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go"

"Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough ?"

"Anything happens in Grand Prix racing and it usually does"

"Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place"

"As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is 5th"

"I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem"

"He is shedding buckets of adrenalin in that car"

"It's raining and the track is wet"

"And there's just a few more corners for Nigel Mansell to go to win the Canadian Grand Prix...and...he's going rather slow....HE'S STOPPING HE'S STOPPING!"

"and this is the third placed car about to lap the second placed car"

"they say clothes maketh the man... the clothes are Niki Lauda's, but the contents are me..." as Murray prepares to take a drive in a F1 car." [He gets a total distance of... oh, 1 foot before he stalls it.] (Apparently, this was the second attempt to film Murray in an F1 McLaren - the first, earlier that day, had gone very well, but for technical reasons couldn't be used!)

[During a F1 race, describing how the leader can see the driver following him] "... Mansell can see him in his earphone..."

"So Bernie [Ecclestone], in the seventeen years since you bought McLaren, which of your many achievements do you think was the most memorable ?" Bernie Answers, "Well I don't remember buying McLaren." [Bernie Ecclestone used to own the Brabham team].

Murrary: "What's that? There's a BODY on the track!!!" James: "Um, I think that that is a piece of BODY-WORK, from someone's car."

Murray: There's a fiery glow coming from the back of the Ferrari James: No Murray, that's his rear safety light

As an introductory piece for a rallysprint race, Murray was put in the Navigator's seat alongside Tony Pond in a Chevette HSR (270 BHP, rwd, and TWITCHY), added an in-car camera, and wired Murray for sound. The result can be deduced by extrapolating his usual excitement and enthusiasm, and adding a large pinch of raw terror! "And there's a 600 foot drop on my left..AND we're doing 120 mph... AND we're approaching a hairpin...OH MY GOD we're going to die..."

[after a post race interview with Mansell after the Austrian GP 1987] Murray : "How did you get that nasty bumb on your head Nigel?" [Nigel leans forward to show the camera as Murray pokes it with his finger !] Nigel: "OWCH!!"

Murray: And look at the flames coming from the back of Berger's McLaren
James: Actually, Murray, they're not flames, it's the safety light.

Murray, commentating on rallycross from Lydden, describes how a BMW driver has cut holes in his windscreen so that his visibility is improved in all the muck... as he is doing so, the car crashes heavily into an earth bank...

From the Spanish GP 1995: "and Eddie Jordan is in fifth place"... (actually Eddie Irvine in one of his compatriot Eddie Jordan's cars).
"...and he's lost both right front tyres" (which may have been accurate back in the days of the Tyrrell P34, but it was from 1995!)


Good old Murray

TNBA

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