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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 14, 2019 12:14:47 GMT
So who watched the Sky coverage of the new Indycar season this weekend? I was excited to see that they had picked it up although was very sad to see that BT weren't doing it as they did a terrific job with it. However, I must admit to a fair degree of disappointment over the fact that Sky despite their huge resources actually added nothing to the coverage and we got just the basic NBC feed.. including all those infernal add breaks . We actually lost 40% of the race this weekend through the breaks and the technical problems they were experiencing. Granted Sky are not to blame for the tech problems but even without those it would still have been a loss of over a quarter of the race including a break at the start of the last 10 laps . So frustrating to loose so much!! I loved the fact that with BT you never lost a lap and can't see why Sky couldn't do something similar. Thoughts.
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Post by hurtmagurt on Mar 14, 2019 12:52:30 GMT
We had the same technical issues here in the states. It's not their first season doing Indy coverage, just their first full season, so I was surprised they had so many problems.
As far as the commercials go...welcome to 'Merican TV. Last year was the first time ever in my life that we got F1 with no commercials. It was fantastic! It was the SKY Sports feed and I really liked the announcers. The only other thing we really get with no commercials is the Premiere League matches they import.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 14, 2019 12:57:47 GMT
We had the same technical issues here in the states. It's not their first season doing Indy coverage, just their first full season, so I was surprised they had so many problems. As far as the commercials go...welcome to 'Merican TV. Last year was the first time ever in my life that we got F1 with no commercials. It was fantastic! It was the SKY Sports feed and I really liked the announcers. The only other thing we really get with no commercials is the Premiere League matches they import. Yeah but my point is that Sky F1 took it over for the first time this season and have given us an inferior product to what we had with BT sport the last couple of seasons. When you guys went to the commercials BT went back to their own studio team and we still go the race feed as part of that so never missed a lap. To lose that much of the actual race is crazy.. must drive you guys nuts. We don't have that over here in any sport that I can think of. The commercials come at natural breaks (half-time in football, change of overs in cricket, etc).
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 24, 2019 16:55:32 GMT
So interesting watching the Indy qualifying at COTA after we raced it last night. Strange why they have decided to have the timing line just before the penultimate corner. I guess that's so drivers can quickly get back to the pits after a hotlap rather then having to do almost another whole lap which would restrict the laps they can run with the format of the qualifying. But they do it in F1 so not sure why the change here.
Don't particularly like the no track limits at the penultimate corner they've employed. Surely it's a test of a driver's ability to go fast there while still keeping it on the grey stuff?
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Post by hurtmagurt on Mar 24, 2019 17:52:14 GMT
They had the qualifying timing line before the pit-in at St Pete too. I'm pretty sure it was also a thing last year.
I also don't like or understand the no track limits. They are saying it's all turns not just 19. How far do you let that go? If it's really "any paved area" couldn't you just straight line the 3,4,5 curves?
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 24, 2019 18:08:33 GMT
Yeah just watching the race now and it's nuts. Dixon gains places on the exit of turn 1 by driving outside the track and everyone is running so wide through 19 it's ridiculous 🙄.
Good to see though that our coverage over here is not going to adverts whenever you guys do in the States. We just get the racing feed with no commentary which is much better than losing it completely like we did last race.
Great to see the rookies doing so well agin, Ward put Rahal to the sword on lap 14(ISH), great confidence...brilliant.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jun 4, 2019 15:26:33 GMT
Did everyone catch that lap of Detroit by Andretti when taking the gamble to go to slicks in the wet. That looked like one fun but scary ride. All credit to him for taking the chance but he certainly didn't get the advantage he deserved when the yellow came out and they got going again before the pack was closed up.
As much as I love Indycar the one thing that really frustrates me is how long they seem to keep the safety car out for. it seemed to be out for way too long after Ericsson's mistake in the pit lane at Indy last week and then this week was out forever again following another of the incidents in race 1. Can't remember off the top of my head which one but they just seem way too long to me. Am I missing something?
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