Sport The Formula 1 Thread

[Halkyon]

I wish we had the marketing budget to get on F1 helmets

[davius]

P.S. Anyone else pegging Marussia to pull it out and qualify above HRT??

[SF-02]

Skygo is a pile of wank so far. Video pausing every 5 seconds even though I've put it down to 'medium' quality. Iplayer has always been fine so just fired it up to check it wasn't the net being slow and it def was skygo, and iplayer played live flawlessly. Is it cos sky use Silverlight?

[myoozikk]

F1 2012 is GO GO GO!!

[Len]

Very excited.

Good stream here if anyone needs (and is ok to post): http://www.vipbox.tv/watch/32669/1/sky-f1--live-stream-online.html

[roskelld]

!!!!

I'm sat here with Sky Go in Canada and I'm getting a great picture. I can't wait till my iPad arrives and I can finally have that bank of screens showing all the info.

Impressed with Sky coverage so far.

[dan_tm]

Oh hai, haven't been in here for a while!

We got rid of Sky a couple of years back, but I've just renewed my membership on http://www.liveonlinefooty.com/ who have nicely created a dedicated F1 channel alongside all the standard football ones. Shame it's not in HD though (although they're streaming the HD SkyF1 channel, so maybe they'll change that shortly...).

Not sure if anyone else has already mentioned it in here, but they're a good bet for a rock-steady online stream if you don't have Sky. £6 for 60 days, plus you can watch all the football you like on there.

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I'm completely confused now though, the BBC commentator's on Sky... and Brundle just appeared too. Is SkyF1 being streamed from the BBC or something, don't tell me Brundle has stepped over to the dark side =(

I haven't been keeping up with the F1 news over the last few weeks/months, I'm going into this season cold.

Oh god, Ted Kravitz just started talking now, what's going on? =O

[roskelld]

Button stopped on track? Timing app claims so?!?

[roskelld]

Oh it seems like its just the way the app is reporting drivers that aren't running. He's certainly not stopped. Its also saying Alonso has too.

[roskelld]

Scratch all that, just realised that I'm watching a demo of the timing lap and not the actual thing. Fuck. I've been really impressed with Riccado in the demo anyway.

[roskelld]

WTF so the free timing app is now no longer free. You just get a demo of the full app and a constant nagging to pay $28 for access to watch Free Practice live.

[roskelld]

WTF ad break? I thought they weren't doing ad breaks during any of the racing, fp included.

[kiroquai]

Oh god, HRT

[dan_tm]

Helmet cam is back!

Is this a proper feature to be used in the races now? I remember they trialled it (on Coulthard's car?) for one race a couple of years back, hopefully they've got it on everyone's car now.

[myoozikk]

Wow the iPad app is incredible!!

Yeah helmet cam was great

[Len]

Agreed, amazing shots from the helmet cam.

[roskelld]

Wow the iPad app is incredible!!

Yeah helmet cam was great

Is that the Sky iPad app?

[f. grimes]

Does Brundle's job now consist of pit lane interviewing and perhaps his Sunday shoulder-barging as the cars line up? It seems a good idea to use his strengths (and shoulders!).

[f. grimes]

Come on, Oldies! Don't let the side down! Follow the SBKers of the last couple of years and show 'em how it's done!

[roskelld]

MassaLOL

[Len]

MassaLOL

Took the words right out of my mouth.

[f. grimes]

Start as you mean to go on, Felipe Baby!

"Sponsored by Dyson!"

[Len]

Most enjoyable start. That Ferrari looks a 'mare to drive and great stuff for Mclaren.

Same time tom?

[roskelld]

Certainly feel more confident about McLaren after that. Jenson looked sublime, dropping straight into the running and pounding some amazing and consistent laps.

Mercedes are looking nippy, they've got to feel good about their setup.

Hard to say with Redbull, they looked ok, but didn't really show much.

As for Ferrari, oh boy, that car doesn't look fun at all. Alonso was mighty impressive holding that thing together. Massa, expected mistake really, he's got little chance of handling a bucking bronco like that.

Most enjoyable start. That Ferrari looks a 'mare to drive and great stuff for Mclaren.

Same time tom?

FP2 is only a few hours away!

[f. grimes]

On the wireless, Alguersuari described that moment as "having fun"!

[roskelld]

I was really hoping for a dry track this time round.

The news of a worried Redbull due to lacking straight line speed is interesting. See how that pans out.

[djbhammer]

Eating my breakfast watching second practice live on tv before going to work. Quality!!

Shame there are adverts though. There had better be none during qualifying!

EDIT: now watching it on sky go in work on my I phone-woo!

[morcs]

Skygo is a pile of wank so far. Video pausing every 5 seconds even though I've put it down to 'medium' quality. Iplayer has always been fine so just fired it up to check it wasn't the net being slow and it def was skygo, and iplayer played live flawlessly. Is it cos sky use Silverlight?

Nope, I had similar issues with Sjy but tried Netflix (which also uses Silverlight) and that worked fine as ever.

Silverlight is one of the good Microsoft products imo.

[Dudley]

WTF ad break? I thought they weren't doing ad breaks during any of the racing, fp included.

They very carefully just said "Racing". Expect breaks between Q1 and Q2 too.

[myoozikk]

I can live with the ad breaks in practice tbh.

Not a huge amount to learn from P1&2 I don't think.

Scu being top becomes less relevant to me when hulk is 2nd & Perez in 3rd.

My gut feeling of the running order is...

Mclaren

Mercedes

Red Bull (unless they are totally troll facing us)