Sport The Formula 1 Thread

[Cheeko]

Lots of egg on faces in here then

At least its defi not going to cost £600 to watch F1 next season

We did you a favour, had it not been for quoting such large figures you wouldn't be able to prance around smelling of roses when everyone's still seriously out of pocket.

[Cheeko]

£10 a month, for 8 months, for 60 days of "race weekend"?

BARGAIN!

Plus half the races are on at ridiculous times so you don't watch them live anyway, so you may as well just view them in HD on the BBC for free.

[Jonny5]

Are the BBC showing full races or extended highlights? I've heard full race, highlights & extended highlights mentioned since the whole sky thing blew up.

[mexos]

Looks like the new channel will be called Sky Sports Speed. Someone found their new twitter account - includes the logo. @skysportsspeed

[Dudley]

Is that free on Sky or free if you have Sky Sports.

Who's betting the latter?

[RFT]

I think it's free to any sky package.

what they're doing with the freeview thing is effectively decoupling the F1 stuff form the rest of sky sports as they feel they'll get more income that way (which is probably right). Making it back part of the Sky Sports package would actually mean that people with a non-sports sky package (like me) would need to pay more to add F1 than people with no sky sub at all...

[Sidewaysbob]

It'll probably be on the news package with eurosport and motors tv I imagine. Or the entertainment + package I think its called now.

[marsh]

Is motors tv not free with sky?

[djbhammer]

More details here direct from Sky on the Sky Sports F1 HD channel:

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,12040_7332332,0.html

[morcs]

Is that free on Sky or free if you have Sky Sports.

Who's betting the latter?

Had to move my Dad to digital TV recently, he refused to go with Sky in the end because the headline costs were so misleading. When he specced anything up it was always far more expensive than the cover price led him to believe, thanks to all the additional costs you have to fudge in.

Fortunately he's relatively tech savvy for a 60 year-old, but this sort of thing I find really quite disingenuous.

Similarly my mum recently got talked into upgrading to BT fibre optic broadband which she doesn't need at all. She asked me to sort it out for her because her bills were so high but turns out there's an enormous cancellation fee. She's not really earning at the moment so can hardly afford it. Really annoys me. Anyway sorry - thread derail!

[myoozikk]

Vettel helmet cam FTW!

[myoozikk]

More details here of Sky Sports F1 HD channel:

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,12040_7332332,0.html

No extra cost for me then as I have sky with the HD package. I'll still make sure wherever possible I'll be supporting the BBC.

[Dudley]

The dedicated channel will be provided at no extra charge to all Sky TV customers who take both Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 or the HD pack of channels

So I was right, you need to have Sky Sports for it to be free.

[myoozikk]

So I was right, you need to have Sky Sports for it to be free.

No it's also with the HD channels which are £10pm. So vastly cheaper than Sky Sports.

Also liking the sky go comparability.

[Dudley]

But not "free for sky customers", still roughly £30 a month if you don't already have Sky.

[RFT]

Is motors tv not free with sky?

no, it's in a "news and current affairs" package (fuck knows) same as Eurosport, which is like £1/month or something daft.

[myoozikk]

But the HD feed is for the £10pm unless I'm mistaken.

[mexos]

I asked them on twitter if we can get the HD feed on Virgin. They just replied:

We're working on that at the moment, so not sure yet.

[kiroquai]

Jesus, that helmet cam makes me feel a bit queasy

[marsh]

Jesus, that helmet cam makes me feel a bit queasy

I don't recall bouncing around as much riding my quad.

[Dudley]

I don't recall bouncing around as much riding my quad.

Your quad probably has something that vaguely resembles suspension.

[marsh]

I know, but that track is supposed to be as flat as a witches tit.

[mexos]

Interlagos has always been bumpy. It's also shit old.

[marsh]

And lets not forget, quad suspension only does so much vs the terrain that's passing underneath it. Even I struggled with watching the helmet cam.

[mexos]

CONFIRMED: BBC non live races are 90 min extended highlights. Fuck that.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/15893254.stm

I bet that 90 mins includes pre and post show. Which means about 50-60 mins of actual racing. I am disappoint.

[polygon_monkey]

BBC 2012 coverage revealed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/15893254.stm

Jake is staying.

Looks like extended highlights then. That Daily Mail thing was rubbish - not coming to Freeview/Freesat. FUCK.

[polygon_monkey]

jakehumphreyf1: F1 Forum remains, live free practive remains, everything available on the iPlayer, and we'll also be presenting from ALL the races. #bbcf1

Why are you not showing all the races then? How is this cheaper?

[dayte]

Daily Mail lies again?!?

Not to mention the BBC. It's not cost cutting if you're doing exactly the same stuff as before. Unless the BBC were paying Bernie money ON TOP of the existing contract for every race broadcast, how will this be saving money?

And no Italy, Japan, Australia in the schedule Extended highlights means no grid walk, no features pre race, maybe not even F1 news. Culling the post race chat in the main programme I don't mind, because the forum will cover that. But the rest...is crap.

[p1nseeker]

This is shit, really shit. I'm gutted

[mexos]

Hang on? So no live races on the beeb till the 3RD race of the season?! Who thought that was a good idea?! FAIL FAIL FUCKIN FAIL.