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Velse

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You can choose to cut off your nose to spite your face, but they do a damn good job on most of it too.

I said as much a few weeks ago. I want to watch F1, and while I have a job I will just suck it up and pay for Sky. I just hope the coverage is reasonable. I don't hold out much hope that it will be to the quality the BBC produces but as long as it isn't shit I will be happy enough. Also going to make an effort to go to two or three races a year :)

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JohnC

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I know, it was supposed to be but hopefully didn't descend into trollage. Financial constraints being what they are, not everyone can afford it (and it is expensive) but anyone who can afford it and loves sport and is just hoping that one day their allegiance to the beeb will be paid back... well, them getting the F1 for a couple of years is probably the high point sadly.

Sky has the Premiership, Super League+Aviva Prem+Heineken cup, most of the cricket, F1 now, Australian Open, not sure about US Open, (they'll never get Wimbledon thankfully), all the big golf events, half the Champions League, all the big boxing events, NFL I think? Who shows Indy Car? One of the open sat channels?

I guarantee they will snap up the cycling if the TdF gets to over 1million viewers. It's about half that now and growing. says here nearly a million watched the final stage and that it was 33% up on the year on average.

You can choose to cut off your nose to spite your face, but they do a damn good job on most of it too.

Anyway, maybe not the right thread for it.

F1 is the only thing out of all those I want to watch. You again imply that anyone who loves sport must like these other things. Is it not possible to love A sport?
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Picasso Of Pain

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I actually really like the look of this one.

Really as person brought up on champ car/indycar and I some way I love Champ Car/Indycar more than F1 I think that the worse looking race car I have ever see. I guess the only positive point about it was that Dan Wheldon was testing it I really hope he goes back behind the wheel full time in 2012 even though his comentary work earlier this year impressed me.

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F1 is the only thing out of all those I want to watch. You again imply that anyone who loves sport must like these other things. Is it not possible to love A sport?

Sure, but that's not the same as someone who "loves sport"

I don't reckon.

I love sport which is precisely why I refuse to give Sky any of my money.

How do you think Tevez gets the big bucks to sit on his arse?! Won't you think of the poor players.

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Worth every penny I'd say.

How many championship winning cars does he have to his name now ?

after a quick check ... 8

1992 - Williams FW14B

1993 - Williams FW15C

1994 - Williams FW16

1996 - Williams FW18

1997 - Williams FW19

1998 - McLaren MP4/13

2010 - Red Bull RB6

and this year obviously.

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And still earning less than soccer players who can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

If he does earn that then he earns more than pretty much every footballer, maybe two or three earn more.

I had heard 8m a year when there was talk about the budget cap but you can see why teams like Red Bull didn't want to see such a thing when a single person who is more than worth it can cost so much. Of course it's our fault Newey gets paid so much and they need the Sky money as Parr would tell us. ;)

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And still earning less than soccer players who can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

He is a unique genius of our lifetime, one of the two best ever racing car designers.

I don't think there are many if any footballers who get paid that much.

Edit: Samuel Eto just pips him at £57,142.86 per day

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The other being a Mr. C. Chapman? :sherlock:

Chapman wasn't so much of a designer, though, certainly the Lotus Glory Years from the mid-60s to late 70s he was what we'd now recognise as more of a team principal (though with a more hands-on element of directing the development of the car) with the cars being designed by the likes of Len Terry and Maurice Phillipe.

Personally, I don't think theres anyone in the history of the sport who's really been an equal to Newey.

Rory Byrne, perhaps, is close, with his run of Bennettons and Ferraris that took Schuey to his champiponships (though he had the best driver in the world driving his cars at the time, which newey hasn't always).

Gordon Murray's close as well, having designed the most dominant car of all time (McLaren MP4/4), and several drivers' and constructors' championships for brabham and McLaren.

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