Author Topic: F1 2018 (Read 4993 times)

tenpenny · « **on:** January 31, 2018, 01:05:00 pm »

I see that F1 has announced they are eliminating 'grid girls' for 2018. It's a good move, they're not an integral part of racing, it's just a leftover from old ideas.

makuribu · « **Reply #1 on:** February 28, 2018, 09:38:24 am »

Seems like eliminating pointless objectification of women is a good move. It's 2018 FFS.

But they seem to have angered the weather gods. It's snowed in Barcelona during testing week; it's colder there than here in Kingston. Yesterday Force India put some snow chains on their car as a joke. Today there were three cars out for one lap each before they gave up. It looks like today is a complete write off. At one point Alonso claimed P1 in his tweet, as he was the only one crazy enough to do a lap in the snow and rain.

In other news, NBC is out and Fox Sports will be showing most of the races in the US this year, using the Sky F1 team. ABC will broadcast the US and Mexico races on their main network, though not Canada. I can watch the races on ABC free OTA with my bent coat hanger HDTV antenna®. Canadian cable will likely blackout the ABC broadcast due to conflict with TSN.

I assume TSN will do its usual job of sidebarring the important action so they can show ads, and tape delaying races in favour of live spelling bees or fat suit sumo wrestling from Reno.

tpl · « **Reply #2 on:** February 28, 2018, 09:56:55 am »

The streaming service is coming...but when it will get to Canada who knows. When it does I can then remove TSN from my channel list at Rogers... don't watch anything else on it.

If grid girls are going then cheering squads should go from football as well.

OliverD · « **Reply #3 on:** February 28, 2018, 10:04:53 am »

Quote from: makuribu on February 28, 2018, 09:38:24 am

I assume TSN will do its usual job of sidebarring the important action so they can show ads, and tape delaying races in favour of live spelling bees or fat suit sumo wrestling from Reno.

The ads are terrible, but aren't all the races shown live? Or close to it. I think there might have been one race last year that wasn't available live.

tpl · « **Reply #4 on:** February 28, 2018, 11:21:33 am »

IIRC there were a couple where for some reason they tape delayed them...but only by a couple of hours.

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Hammy · « **Reply #5 on:** March 23, 2018, 06:51:34 pm »

I just saw some practise footage and they have some god awful halo bar in front of the driver, that's not going to be there all year is it???

rrocket · « **Reply #6 on:** March 23, 2018, 06:53:58 pm »

Quote from: Hammy on March 23, 2018, 06:51:34 pm

I just saw some practise footage and they have some god awful halo bar in front of the driver, that's not going to be there all year is it???

Yes.

View out the screen is the same as LMP LeMans cars.

OliverD · « **Reply #7 on:** March 23, 2018, 07:32:53 pm »

Quite frankly, I'm surprised it's taken this long to implement something like the halo.

F1 had an amazing safety record until Bianchi died.

Hammy · « **Reply #8 on:** March 24, 2018, 01:10:12 pm »

Seems like Hamilton was playing possum there.....

OliverD · « **Reply #9 on:** March 24, 2018, 03:25:56 pm »

Pretty big crash by Bottas.

Definitely looking forward to watching the race tomorrow.

makuribu · « **Reply #10 on:** March 25, 2018, 08:02:12 pm »

I see ESPN's coverage sucks even worse than TSN's.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/espn-apologizes-live-broadcast-errors-1019008/

Is it any wonder people look for "illegal" streaming solutions?

makuribu · « **Reply #11 on:** March 25, 2018, 08:05:03 pm »

Quote from: OliverD on March 23, 2018, 07:32:53 pm

Quite frankly, I'm surprised it's taken this long to implement something like the halo.

F1 had an amazing safety record until Bianchi died.

Amazing that F1 organization did not realize the halo runs across the sight line of the in-car camera. In all the development time, nobody thought to mount the camera on the halo itself?

tpl · « **Reply #12 on:** March 25, 2018, 08:08:54 pm »

Quote from: makuribu on March 25, 2018, 08:02:12 pm

I see ESPN's coverage sucks even worse than TSN's.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/espn-apologizes-live-broadcast-errors-1019008/

Is it any wonder people look for "illegal" streaming solutions?

On thinking about the race, which I thought was rather dull for the first race of the year, I agree with you. The camera work was not very good. Bring back the old BBC feed.

I believe this 3 engines per year thing will be bad...all the teams crawling around to not kill their engines.

I agree...why not put the camera on the halo!

OliverD · « **Reply #13 on:** March 25, 2018, 08:36:03 pm »

Quote from: tpl on March 25, 2018, 08:08:54 pm

-On thinking about the race, which I thought was rather dull for the first race of the year, I agree with you. The camera work was not very good. Bring back the old BBC feed.

The network has nothing to do with the camera work. The video feed is provided by Formula One. The broadcaster has zero control of it – they don't even choose which camera is being displayed.

rrocket · « **Reply #14 on:** March 25, 2018, 09:39:15 pm »

Quote from: makuribu on March 25, 2018, 08:05:03 pm

Quote from: OliverD on March 23, 2018, 07:32:53 pm
Quite frankly, I'm surprised it's taken this long to implement something like the halo.

F1 had an amazing safety record until Bianchi died.

Amazing that F1 organization did not realize the halo runs across the sight line of the in-car camera. In all the development time, nobody thought to mount the camera on the halo itself?

I was watching a bit on DirecTV (forget what channel)..and the views i saw were on top of the halo.

dougjp · « **Reply #15 on:** March 25, 2018, 10:10:56 pm »

Quote from: tpl on March 25, 2018, 08:08:54 pm

On thinking about the race, which I thought was rather dull for the first race of the year, I agree with you. The camera work was not very good. Bring back the old BBC feed.

I believe this 3 engines per year thing will be bad...all the teams crawling around to not kill their engines.

Maybe its my imagination/disappointment with the race today, but it seems getting close to the car in front, even with DRS, is even more impossible than last year? And they added a 3rd DRS zone. 2 actual passes on track through the whole race, really bad.

And yes why does the FIA doggedly keep going down the same paths despite universal complaints? Going from 4 engines per year (which wasn't enough for last year) to 3 engines per year. Hello Todt?

makuribu · « **Reply #16 on:** March 30, 2018, 11:22:54 am »

Quote from: dougjp on March 25, 2018, 10:10:56 pm

Quote from: tpl on March 25, 2018, 08:08:54 pm

On thinking about the race, which I thought was rather dull for the first race of the year, I agree with you. The camera work was not very good. Bring back the old BBC feed.

I believe this 3 engines per year thing will be bad...all the teams crawling around to not kill their engines.

Maybe its my imagination/disappointment with the race today, but it seems getting close to the car in front, even with DRS, is even more impossible than last year? And they added a 3rd DRS zone. 2 actual passes on track through the whole race, really bad.

And yes why does the FIA doggedly keep going down the same paths despite universal complaints? Going from 4 engines per year (which wasn't enough for last year) to 3 engines per year. Hello Todt?

Dropping the number of engines is just stupid, as is adding 90 place penalties for replacing broken or worn out parts beyond the allowance.

Also, I don't think Liberty Media has any idea how to promote F1.
They didn't televise the testing in Barcelona at all. Even Sky F1 was limited to a web blog.

tenpenny · « **Reply #17 on:** April 08, 2018, 12:17:23 pm »

Man, Ferrari needs to do something about pit stops. They obviously have some serious problems.

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OliverD · « **Reply #18 on:** April 08, 2018, 01:02:58 pm »

Quote from: tenpenny on April 08, 2018, 12:17:23 pm

Man, Ferrari needs to do something about pit stops. They obviously have some serious problems.

Yup, that was pretty bad. Hope that guy is ok. He definitely has at least a broken leg.

Angry Chicken · « **Reply #19 on:** April 12, 2018, 06:42:54 am »

Two races in and there’s still no clear pecking order for the top 2 teams. And there are a lot of surprises and churn in the rest of the pack. Makes me look forward to this weekend’s race in China!