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I don't follow this thread too closely so this may already have been posted. According to Private Eye No. 1311, Sky got 1.02m people watching the Australian F1 live versus 2.1m in 2011 on the BBC. Sky got 1.5m viewers for the Malaysian F1 versus 4.4m in 2011 on the BBC.

Sky had hoped that anyone petrol-headed enough to get up for a 6am race would surely fork out for their F1 channel but thus far the viewing figures don't support this line of thought.

I bet the advertisers are chuffed ;)

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Shimmyhill

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I don't follow this thread too closely so this may already have been posted. According to Private Eye No. 1311, Sky got 1.02m people watching the Australian F1 live versus 2.1m in 2011 on the BBC. Sky got 1.5m viewers for the Malaysian F1 versus 4.4m in 2011 on the BBC.

Sky had hoped that anyone petrol-headed enough to get up for a 6am race would surely fork out for their F1 channel but thus far the viewing figures don't support this line of thought.

I bet the advertisers are chuffed ;)

The problem is with the 'oh noes sky are evil and F1 got less viewers' is that overall the viewing figures for sky + bbc combined this year beat last years total viewers!

The basic fact of the matter is in money terms the sky deal is better for F1, sky are getting amazing viewing figures given the potential market they have and the advertisers are getting more exposure.

And thats even before you factor in what a tiny percentage of world wide viewers the UK has, if the UK didn't get F1 at all it wouldn't matter is the brutal reality, Bernie would be more interested in saving tv coverage in the USA than the UK..

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I don't follow this thread too closely so this may already have been posted. According to Private Eye No. 1311, Sky got 1.02m people watching the Australian F1 live versus 2.1m in 2011 on the BBC. Sky got 1.5m viewers for the Malaysian F1 versus 4.4m in 2011 on the BBC.

Sky had hoped that anyone petrol-headed enough to get up for a 6am race would surely fork out for their F1 channel but thus far the viewing figures don't support this line of thought.

I bet the advertisers are chuffed ;)

And those are the peak figures, i.e - taking the exact nanosecond of the program watched by the most people, not the actual "real" figures.

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Dandy_Sephy

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The FIA have announced Bahrain will go ahead...

Based on the current information the FIA has at this stage, it is satisfied that all the proper security measures are in place for the running of a Formula One World Championship event in Bahrain.

Therefore, the FIA confirms that the 2012 Gulf Air F1 Grand Prix of Bahrain will go ahead as scheduled.

http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/pressreleases/f1releases/2012/Pages/f1-bahrain.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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f. grimes

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I wandered over to Race Department earlier and one of the wishes for 2012 was to give us control during Safety Car situations. After the start of our wet race and how well it worked for us (we had a great spotter!), that's a change I would like to see - at least as an option.

Onto a little while ago, that Sauber was not nice to see. Sickening, actually. Was there a flat are on the tyre? I couldn't see anything obvious when I saw some of the replay. Has Perez's car still been running after that? It's showing 'P' just now, though I see it's the end of the session.

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thesnwmn

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Onto a little while ago, that Sauber was not nice to see. Sickening, actually. Was there a flat are on the tyre? I couldn't see anything obvious when I saw some of the replay. Has Perez's car still been running after that? It's showing 'P' just now, though I see it's the end of the session.

Yep, confirmed as a flat spot on those medium tyres. Then he went out on sorts and double locked those massively too. So pitted having wrecked all his tyres I think.

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It's really irritating when a team comes up with a new innovation, and all another team can do is try and get it banned rather than rising to the challenge of developing something similar.

F1 is the pinnacle of motorsport, and tech should play an important part in it, just as much as the driver (IMO of course)

Let's not forget that lotus had their nifty little bit of 2012-car innovation, which had been passed as legal by charlie, overturned on appeal from some of the other teams. Lotus were only trying to do as had been done to them.

Now I have to take a shower after defending Lotus.

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probeater

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I read an article yesterday about Bahrain and they state that McLaren is part owned by Bahrain, I didn't know this and now think less of them due to it.

Props to Mark Webber for once again being the only one on the grid with balls enough to speak his own mind.

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When I saw Vettel dropping down the ordering thought, maybe, maybe! But then I looked at who was beneath him.

The bottom of the field are so far off still, especially Marussia and HRT. It's a shame because the rest of the field look like they have a chance at shaking things up if they get half the chance, Marussia and HRT don't look like they could bother the road sweepers.

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I really do not understand the mentality of the 3 new teams, you are not competitive enough to get even a point. What's is the point of wasting all that money to take part? Just quit now & save your money.

Q2 let's see who is the fastest now

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