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Comment on Holidays, Blogging and F1 Coverage by james t

james t — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:27:08 +0000

Unfortunately everyone here seems to have missed the point. The Beeb are to blame (and I have NEVER had a bad word to say about them previously) as they had the rights til the end of next year and should have had this budgeted already. now I understand times are tight and that someone probably realised they didn’t have the money to carry on providing the broadcast at it’s current level. However as Beeb execs have previously stated the deal with sky allows them to carry on showing half the races for the next 7 years. Well that doesn’t seem to be in the license fee payer’s interest when the other public broadcaster (Channel 4) was willing to take over all of the coverage so that it remained on “free to air” TV. Instead the Beeb seem more concerned with letting one of their most prized assets be taken over by a direct rival. Now call me old fashioned but doing a deal with sky (where I would be forced to pay approx £400 a year for the privilege) to save their own bacon as opposed to just letting it go is NOT good value for the tax payer-afterall (as the Beeb keeps reminding us) times are tight and money needs to be saved. Therefore it makes perfect sense to ask individuals who are struggling to pay their basic utility bills to fork out an additional £400 to watch their sport. Idiots

Comment on A Certain Uncertainty by Mav

Mav — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:00:15 +0000

I think rather than KERS and DRS, tyres have been the big influence on overtaking – but not so much in terms of pace as in as their lifetimes. Shorter lifetime means more tyre changes and it has been the races that have seen lots of tyre stops that have produced huge amounts of overtaking. I think the reason is because more tyre stops mean a greater the number of realistic tyre strategies – not only the number of stops but the order the two compounds are used – with no single stand-out optimum strategy. That means that while the subtly different strategies have produced changes of position in the middle of the race, the end result is more or less the same which ever way they went.

Comment on A Certain Uncertainty by rubbergoat

rubbergoat — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:59:23 +0000

Thanks for the great post Mav, impressive work here and a very interesting result! I must admit I had a hunch that with the rule changes this year I thought that wet races were still better, but it’s great to see some analysis to add to that argument.

For those who see KERS and DRS as too gimmicky, this adds weight to their arguments too…

Comment on A Certain Uncertainty by Mav

Mav — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:41:32 +0000

Since retirements are factored out, it would have made no difference.

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Comment on A Certain Uncertainty by saltire

saltire — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:41:00 +0000

Very interesting idea. I wonder how different things would have been if Vettel had had a couple of retirements in the early races, does one driver making or losing a few places make much of a difference to the eventual correlation?

Comment on Holidays, Blogging and F1 Coverage by F1Wolf

F1Wolf — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:32:39 +0000

I don’t really see problem with F1 being on paid channel. After all over here we have been forced to pay for channel showing F1 for as long as I can remember. Actually we have to pay for everything we want to watch as those 2-3 free to air channels we have here should pay us for watching them

Where I do see the problem is the price one has to pay. Those who already have the subscriptions for the channels that will carry F1 will probably have no problems with the change, they will probably be happy they are going to get more for their money. But having to pay GPB50 or so a month and only to be interested in F1 that does not sound too nice … However these days it does not have to be (if the will is there). There is always the possibility for the races (race weekends) to be streamed online for a reasonable amount that would not require the fans to pay all the cost required with getting the paid TV on the actual TV… If the will is there …

I hope that while this change is not so good news for viewers in UK it can turn into good news for us in Asia. As Star Sports is part of the same empire as Sky one would hope that they would use whatever they produce for UK also for Asia and finally get rid off that hopeless Star Sports team … They do it for other sports (Champions League in the past before the rights went someone else over, Premier League uses the original Sky commentary until now etc…). I can only hope that what I see at the end of the tunnel is not another train

Comment on Holidays, Blogging and F1 Coverage by W-K

W-K — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:54:07 +0000

I’m sure that the costs to subscribe to Sky sports can be justified for a dedicated football fan, even following one top football team will enable them to watch all of that teams 50+ matches/season plus all the internationals and finals, and any other important matches they care to watch. To subscribe for 10 extra F1 races doesn’t seem so attractive.
For me if I subscribe then my youngest son and I will not be able to attend Silverstone each year, as we have for most of the last 15 years.

Comment on Holidays, Blogging and F1 Coverage by Richard Elliot

Richard Elliot — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:15:52 +0000

Being in Australia at the moment I’ve missed a lot of anger directed at the BBC, but I agree with all the points you’ve made there is no basis for ‘blaming’ the BBC.

I think it’s a shame the races are going to be on Sky. Watching Test Match cricket used to be a big part of my summer and when it went to sky that stopped. I listened to the radio sometimes, but generally I just read the news at the end of the days play. I think I’ll do the same with F1. It won’t make my buy a Sky package, but I would possibly pay for the odd races if they do a pay to view type deal (not that I have a dish).

Being on Sky only hasn’t harmed the Premier League too much, so it needn’t be bad for the sport overall. The financial side of the sport is heavily inter-linked with the Concorde agreement and not just the BBC TV deal. Changing that is a whole different post…