Ch10 Race Commentary

[juany 0]

Anyone know if Channel 10 will use the ITV race commentators of Martin Brundle and James Allen during the race tomorrow or stick with Crompton and Billy who have been calling the timed sessions?

[Sato 0]

i hope for ITV but im pretty sure it will be bill and neil like ast year sadly.

[webber 0]

But at every race last year thay used the ITV boys

[juany 0]

Not every race, Neil and Bill did the Aussie GP...

[webber 0]

did thay. i cant rember the little things that hapend 1 year ago

[mclaren 0]

Hey , as long as its not Eddie Mguire , im sure he still has connections to 10 .

Getting serious bout that though , nothing wrong with our boys as they do make very valid points and know what they are talking about ( 99% of the time that is ) it just doesnt feel like a real GP without the real voices when you watch it back .

Even when Murray Walker called the race , he honestly lost it in the final year big time but there was nothing better than hearing him call the start finish etc ( even though Martin would have to tell him there were still a few laps left on the odd occassion ) .

Anyone agree .

[juany 0]

I think Crompton and Billy do an OK job of calling the sessions, Crompton has a fantastic race head, but I think he tries to show he knows a lot about racing too much by saying things that only mean stuff to other people who race.

I miss Murray and even though he made a lot of mistakes, his voice was F1 as far as I am concerned.

James Allan and Martin Brundle are not that bad and I would prefer to hear them call the race on Sunday as they seem to have a bit more inside goss on fuel loads and pit strategy's etc.

Speaking of fuel loads, I hope Ferrari are running light on fuel for F1's sake...

[rodders47 2]

well crompton did a great job today and I commend him for it, he does have a very good insight into what is going on , unlike Murray who always forgot to put his Brain into gear before engaging the mouth :-)

[hollywood2003 0]

I like crompton for his technical explanations of the situation, the fact he has actually been a racing car driver helps, I think the closest Bill Woods has been is as a spectator in every sport known to man, he he

ITV will take over commentary for all the rest of the GPs, well that's what has happened last year.

I too got cored with the race after Webber broke down, he seemed to have been catching truly and Montoya and looking good until 6th and 7th gears broke!! bummer

[webber 0]

he seemed to have been catching truly and Montoya and looking good until 6th and 7th gears broke!! bummer

"and you just cant run on only 5 gears these days"

[hollywood2003 0]

U can run on five, if you want to go only 230 km/h!! he he

[webber 0]

U can run on five, if you want to go only 230 km/h!! he he

i was quoting M.Webber

[hollywood2003 0]

that's ok, I was quoting myself

[boftolod 0]

My only complaint about the telecast has the overtaking manouvre Mass (I think it was) taking Raikonen. The entire manouvre was viewed from the camera rear facing from Raikonens car. Gave a great indication of straight line speed but once Massa was along side him, you couldn't see anything untill the replays.

[nichosnz 0]

It got a lot better, but on the first lap, IMO the TV race director did a very messy job.

[webber 0]

It got a lot better, but on the first lap, IMO the TV race director did a very messy job.

but thats not Ch 10 fult and also we only sore the ond of the Massa spin. yea the first lap was perty s##t camer work

[nichosnz 0]

but thats not Ch 10 fult... yea the first lap was perty s##t camer work

Is it not are the not the local broadcaster, if so the TV world feed is their responsability. I don't think it was camera work as much as camera selection work.

[webber 0]

yea i ment camera selection. :oops: sorry :oops:

[Taku 0]

as far as i know it's the local director that choses the angles. at least i always remember it was always like that for itv. martin always has a bit of a whinge (often justified) about this.

as for neil & billy woods, crompton's great, but billy woods always has been, and always will be a joke. i used to love basketball back in the day, and he did the channel 10 nba coverage and i just used to cringe through the intro's and outro's every week as he displayed his ineptitude and baltantly obvious lack of real passion and knowledge for the sport (any sport for that matter). now he does f1 and nothing's changed. he knows absolutely f* all about anything and is just one of those puppet "journalists" that seems to be thrown in by the network executives despite a complete lack of anything resembling a basic understanding of the sport. he knows only what he's told and reads about in the "sport for dummies" books.

i am just so p**sed that he seems to enter as a journo every sport that i have a genuine passion for, and he adds absolutely nothing, and only takes away from my enjoyment. f* you billy woods you chump :evil:

[rodders47 2]

Hey Nichos, speaking of the first lap, what about the START of Alonso !!

First he goes on the grass to pass Montoya, then when Monty hooked it up Alonso tried to run him off the track to the Right of the circuit only to shhot back to the left of the circuit to block his team mate, who had to lock em all up to avoid a collision !! and Alonso was not penalised ??

In My humble opinion that was blatantly uncalled for bad driving, I said to myself at the time " This is going to end in tears " , luckily it didnt, only for the ability of the other drivers IMO

[webber 0]

Tuka

ths only good thing Bill wood's does is RPM

[juany 0]

Thought I read somewhere that Bernies failed digital broadcast box was being used at all the races now as the official broadcaster, not sure if that means they also produce and direct the cameras etc.

What did you guys think of the new HUD graphics during the race, it seems Seimans has modernised the look. Not too bad. There are a few bugs in the timing system though. I noticed during a qualifing lap where two drivers set the same split time, but the difference didnt show '0' is showed '-1:23:06' or whatever the split time was.

[Sato 0]

i noticed that with webbers lap...he tied takumas's first sector and it show as if he'd done sector 1 in 0.000

[Taku 0]

for sure, there was definitely a couple glitches in teh qualifying timing, but love that tacho 8) ! esp. when they'er upchanging at 19,000 :twisted: ! you know they're giving it a go

[nojvnof1 0]

I liked it, but on the big screen at the track I found the timing and names were too small to read, but on tv they were ok. Ch 10 did a good job, besides it's only 1 out of 18 that they commentate on so its not that bad.

shaun