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reani_

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Marussia announce a test driver who is 32 with a best finish of 18th in a World Touring Car Championship race and who was last seen 2 years ago being reliably on the back row of Superleaga formula.

Sadly it's important but if they actually run her (yes her) that'll put women drivers back another 2 decades just as Amati did.

I hope at least one of Simona di Silverstro, Alice Powell or Emma Kimilainen just punched something.

She is the official test driver but she will not be getting in the car - she will come to the races though

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Let's hope not, there's not a way in hell she'll trouble the 107% rule. It'd be difficult for anyone in a Marussia who has literally done 0 laps on an F1 car with real tyres but she would find it impossible.

Then the apes will go "Haha women drivers" and we're back to square minus 1.

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Does anyone know that with the Virgin XL package are we going to get the F1 channel or do we have to sign up to the entire sports package?

Or better yet can we just get the channel added to our package?

You have to sign up to Marussia TV now...

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Another Sky video preview ahead of tomorrows launch http://skyplustv.sky.com/showpage/formula-1#video

Also lists the full weekend coverage:

Fri 9 March

Formula 1 Magazine Show, 8pm

Martin Brundle, Damon Hill and the entire Sky Sports F1 team join Simon Lazenby for a brilliant, two-hour preview of the 2012 season.

Formula 1 Legends: Fittipaldi, 10pm; Sir Jackie Stewart, 10.30pm.

Steve Rider kicks off his series of interviews with the greats of Grand Prix racing in a double bill: First is Brazil’s Emerson Fittipaldi, the two-time world champion, followed by the legendary Sir Jackie Stewart, winner of three drivers' championships.

Saturday 10 March

Season Review 1988, midday

Watch Ayrton Senna win his first world title.

Season Review 1989, 4pm

The year that turbochargers were banned...

Winter Testing: Jerez, 3.15pm; Barcelona, 5.15pm

This season's cars are put through their early paces.

Special Report: F1 Countdown, 6pm

Ahead of next week's season opener in Melbourne, we have an interview with Red Bull team principal Christian Horner.

Time Of Our Lives: GP Greats, 7pm

Taking Gary Newbon behind the scenes of Formula 1 in the 1990s are Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill and Murray Walker.

Season Review 2011, 8pm

Parts one and two of our epic look back at the 2011 season, as Vettel sets the pace...

Sunday 11 March

Season Review 1990, Mid-day

It's that man Senna again...

Season Review 1991, 4pm

... and again! A hat-trick for the great Brazilian.

Season Review 2011, 8pm

Parts three and four of a spectacular and controversial year of racing.

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davius

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The Sky F1 Chanel is looking pretty epic, classic F1 - who doesn't want to see that!

My girlfriend for one!

Can you get shares in relationship councillors? Got a feeling there may be a spike in demand this year.

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mexos

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Everything I'm seeing coming out of Sky (outside of the editing on that commercial) so far looks just so goddam cheesy. I'm worried. I don't care how much of it there is, if the coverage just plain makes me cringe watching it... I just can't.

It all feels a bit... Essex. The guys look like their dressed to go to Yates for a pint and a fight, and Thompson and Pinkman have so much make up on they look ready for a porn set.

Yuk.

The graphics look like something they'd do for the darts. :mellow: It doesn't feel F1 to me so far. Putting feelings about Murdoch etc aside for a minute, I really hope I'm wrong though and they pull it out the bag. I want good coverage.

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reani_

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Even not being on Sky I'm looking forward to the new season coverage. I will enjoy the live races even more on the bbc :)

Also, DC and Eddie are an unbeatable team of entertainment! Although I will miss Ted a bit I like Gary Anderson already

No Sky needed...

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What has gone to shit?

The sport. Cars all bar 2 ugly as fuck, and sky turning it into the above football coverage. Come the end of the year you could easily have signed up for fuck all.

Anyway, back to 'from hell and back' Lauda was a pay driver! Massively so.

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SMD

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Sky do football far better than the BBC, it is over the top in the advertising etc but the actual coverage is leagues ahead of BBC and ITV...

The BBC's coverage used to be amazing but unfortunately it had to follow suit to make sure it was giving the 'public' what it wanted. It's all about grabbing the casuals rather than proper supporters because they're going to watch anyway. Even Gary Neville admits that they're supposed to look for a 'narrative' rather than just report on the football.

Unless you mean the actual graphics and stuff, which aren't done by Sky at all - they employ a third party company who do sports events all over the world.

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Sidewaysbob

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What other sport explains the rules to the views each week. Imagine Football focus startign each show with a "rule of the week" feature where the offside rule or 'the long game' are explained with flashy graphics and Linaker donning a pair of boots and running onto the pitch.

How about before the six nations the presenting team demonstrating how a scrum works with the French pack "and then the odd shaped ball is put into the 'scrum', like this"

F1 for some reason has to constantly explain to people the rules, the teams, the tires, the start etc etc. I'm just wish Sky would assume the people watching know what a stearing wheel is and why they have all of those buttons on it.

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mexos

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I partly agree with what your saying, but I'd also say that F1 is a thousand times more complex a sport than Rugby and the underlying reasons for why something has happened are not always obvious - hence the need to explain shit in features etc. I think the beeb struck a good balance on this. It didn't feel too dumbed down to me, when they did explain things for the n00b's it was usually quick and painless. They would go into tech detail quite a lot at a level n00b's wouldn't get which I think was pretty brave. I think they aimed their coverage first at informed F1 fans first and casuals second. Who knows which direction sky will go in. I'm assuming super dumbed down though.

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