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[Denthúl]

Yeah, I know about the Le Mans races he did, but he hasn't done those for years. Has he?

[f1usa]

In the United States F1 is televised on SPEED channel at 8:00 am Sunday morning. Peter Windsor does the Grid Walk and post race interviews. Race commentators are Bob Varsha and David Hobbs, Steve Machett a former F1 mechanic handles the tech analysis issues. The four hosts and SPEED channel do a great job televising F1 races, sometimes having to endure the biased camera coverage of the host country TV feed. F1 Sunday morning, NASCAR at 1:00pm, hell, it doesn't get much better than this.

[darwin dali]

In the United States F1 is televised on SPEED channel at 8:00 am Sunday morning. Peter Windsor does the Grid Walk and post race interviews. Race commentators are Bob Varsha and David Hobbs, Steve Machett a former F1 mechanic handles the tech analysis issues. The four hosts and SPEED channel do a great job televising F1 races, sometimes having to endure the biased camera coverage of the host country TV feed. F1 Sunday morning, NASCAR at 1:00pm, hell, it doesn't get much better than this.

I agree, except the N-word you used I would replace with NFL

[texasmr2]

I agree, except the N-word you used I would replace with NFL

Big sweaty men fondling each other sorry but I'm gonna have to report this post !

[darwin dali]

I agree, except the N-word you used I would replace with NFL

Big sweaty men fondling each other sorry but I'm gonna have to report this post !

Party pooper! Can't you let a girl have some fun watching real men with tight arses duking it out?

[woody2goody]

In the United States F1 is televised on SPEED channel at 8:00 am Sunday morning. Peter Windsor does the Grid Walk and post race interviews. Race commentators are Bob Varsha and David Hobbs, Steve Machett a former F1 mechanic handles the tech analysis issues. The four hosts and SPEED channel do a great job televising F1 races, sometimes having to endure the biased camera coverage of the host country TV feed. F1 Sunday morning, NASCAR at 1:00pm, hell, it doesn't get much better than this.

I wish I could watch F1, then NASCAR, then the NFL, but I'm not that lucky

[Lem]

ITV coverage isn't bad. The reason the gridwalks have become so poor is because sportsmen are like robots and are either told or don't tend to want to speak to the media anymore. Some of the gridwalks last year I cringed for Martin, trying to do a job in such difficult circumstances. Formula One needs to become more accessable to the fans imo, but the attitudes of some drivers are holding progress back.

I don't hate James Allen, but I do find the criticisms true. I'd go as far as saying he went pretty downhill last year, called an awful lot of things wrong when he was getting too excited over Hamilton, like when he was catching other drivers he wouldn't realise he had to pit again etc. Found myself shouting at the TV a few times. Brundle is excellent, Steve Rider and Mark Blundell are extremely sickly, especially chasing Lewis Hamilton's dad round all the time when he has nothing new to say. The Brazilian GP was particularly infuriating, no mention whatsoever made of Raikkonen's comeback, perhaps the greatest ever considering the gap for points between first and second is now only two...makes it much harder to make up ground.

It was almost like bloody wrestling on ITV last year, Hamilton the goodie and Alonso the big nasty baddie. Raikkonen and Massa hardly got a mention.

[8-ball]

ITV coverage isn't bad. The reason the gridwalks have become so poor is because sportsmen are like robots and are either told or don't tend to want to speak to the media anymore. Some of the gridwalks last year I cringed for Martin, trying to do a job in such difficult circumstances. Formula One needs to become more accessable to the fans imo, but the attitudes of some drivers are holding progress back.

I don't hate James Allen, but I do find the criticisms true. I'd go as far as saying he went pretty downhill last year, called an awful lot of things wrong when he was getting too excited over Hamilton, like when he was catching other drivers he wouldn't realise he had to pit again etc. Found myself shouting at the TV a few times. Brundle is excellent, Steve Rider and Mark Blundell are extremely sickly, especially chasing Lewis Hamilton's dad round all the time when he has nothing new to say. The Brazilian GP was particularly infuriating, no mention whatsoever made of Raikkonen's comeback, perhaps the greatest ever considering the gap for points between first and second is now only two...makes it much harder to make up ground.

It was almost like bloody wrestling on ITV last year, Hamilton the goodie and Alonso the big nasty baddie. Raikkonen and Massa hardly got a mention.

I think that you just summed up the ITV coverage brilliantly. While I believe some of the criticisms of Allen has been a bit unfair he is not the worse thing about the broadcast. Steve rider and Mark Blundell are about is entertaining as having cholera. Rider doesn't have a clue about F1 and needs to be replaced. Ted Kravitz or Louise Goodman might be a better choice looking at their CV's they certainly been involved in motorsport longer than Rider. Hopefully now that Lewis mania has died down a bit ITV will get back to coverage that was good during the schumi years

[Martin]

ITV coverage isn't bad. The reason the gridwalks have become so poor is because sportsmen are like robots and are either told or don't tend to want to speak to the media anymore. Some of the gridwalks last year I cringed for Martin, trying to do a job in such difficult circumstances. Formula One needs to become more accessable to the fans imo, but the attitudes of some drivers are holding progress back.

I don't hate James Allen, but I do find the criticisms true. I'd go as far as saying he went pretty downhill last year, called an awful lot of things wrong when he was getting too excited over Hamilton, like when he was catching other drivers he wouldn't realise he had to pit again etc. Found myself shouting at the TV a few times. Brundle is excellent, Steve Rider and Mark Blundell are extremely sickly, especially chasing Lewis Hamilton's dad round all the time when he has nothing new to say. The Brazilian GP was particularly infuriating, no mention whatsoever made of Raikkonen's comeback, perhaps the greatest ever considering the gap for points between first and second is now only two...makes it much harder to make up ground.

It was almost like bloody wrestling on ITV last year, Hamilton the goodie and Alonso the big nasty baddie. Raikkonen and Massa hardly got a mention.

I think that you just summed up the ITV coverage brilliantly. While I believe some of the criticisms of Allen has been a bit unfair he is not the worse thing about the broadcast. Steve rider and Mark Blundell are about is entertaining as having cholera. Rider doesn't have a clue about F1 and needs to be replaced. Ted Kravitz or Louise Goodman might be a better choice looking at their CV's they certainly been involved in motorsport longer than Rider. Hopefully now that Lewis mania has died down a bit ITV will get back to coverage that was good during the schumi years

I thougt that coverage in the 'Schumi years' was as bad except that MS was the target that everyone dribbled over. The trouble is that TV and media generaly is staffed by those who do not neccesarily understand the subject - not the case with Martin B but maybe with Steve Rider, and they are catering for a wide audience, a large proportion of which also does not understand the subject, and so one way of keeping the shallower elements of the audience happy is to have a 'hero' as the centre piece. I think that that is a reason why,as has been stated on this thread a number of times, the director puts most focus on the leaders when there may often be a really good battle going on lower down the field, but by drivers with no chance of winning.

[McLaren Fan]

ITV coverage isn't bad. The reason the gridwalks have become so poor is because sportsmen are like robots and are either told or don't tend to want to speak to the media anymore. Some of the gridwalks last year I cringed for Martin, trying to do a job in such difficult circumstances. Formula One needs to become more accessable to the fans imo, but the attitudes of some drivers are holding progress back.

I don't hate James Allen, but I do find the criticisms true. I'd go as far as saying he went pretty downhill last year, called an awful lot of things wrong when he was getting too excited over Hamilton, like when he was catching other drivers he wouldn't realise he had to pit again etc. Found myself shouting at the TV a few times. Brundle is excellent, Steve Rider and Mark Blundell are extremely sickly, especially chasing Lewis Hamilton's dad round all the time when he has nothing new to say. The Brazilian GP was particularly infuriating, no mention whatsoever made of Raikkonen's comeback, perhaps the greatest ever considering the gap for points between first and second is now only two...makes it much harder to make up ground.

It was almost like bloody wrestling on ITV last year, Hamilton the goodie and Alonso the big nasty baddie. Raikkonen and Massa hardly got a mention.

I think that you just summed up the ITV coverage brilliantly. While I believe some of the criticisms of Allen has been a bit unfair he is not the worse thing about the broadcast. Steve rider and Mark Blundell are about is entertaining as having cholera. Rider doesn't have a clue about F1 and needs to be replaced. Ted Kravitz or Louise Goodman might be a better choice looking at their CV's they certainly been involved in motorsport longer than Rider. Hopefully now that Lewis mania has died down a bit ITV will get back to coverage that was good during the schumi years

To be fair to Rider, he doesn't pick the people whom he must interview and he did Formula One for a while when it was on the BBC. What I do find cringeworthy about him is how startled he looks when he talks about Hamilton or talks to Hamilton. He's a like teenage girl meeting the blue-eyed boy she likes from her favourite pop group. I do agree with you that either Kravitz or Goodman deserve to be called up to presenting the show. In fact, sack Rider, get Goodman to present the show, get Kravitz to commentate and send Allen back the pits. That would solve some the problem, for we'd still be left with inadequate time for pre-Grand Prix build-ups and post Grand Prix analysis and no press conferences.

[8-ball]

ITV coverage isn't bad. The reason the gridwalks have become so poor is because sportsmen are like robots and are either told or don't tend to want to speak to the media anymore. Some of the gridwalks last year I cringed for Martin, trying to do a job in such difficult circumstances. Formula One needs to become more accessable to the fans imo, but the attitudes of some drivers are holding progress back.

I don't hate James Allen, but I do find the criticisms true. I'd go as far as saying he went pretty downhill last year, called an awful lot of things wrong when he was getting too excited over Hamilton, like when he was catching other drivers he wouldn't realise he had to pit again etc. Found myself shouting at the TV a few times. Brundle is excellent, Steve Rider and Mark Blundell are extremely sickly, especially chasing Lewis Hamilton's dad round all the time when he has nothing new to say. The Brazilian GP was particularly infuriating, no mention whatsoever made of Raikkonen's comeback, perhaps the greatest ever considering the gap for points between first and second is now only two...makes it much harder to make up ground.

It was almost like bloody wrestling on ITV last year, Hamilton the goodie and Alonso the big nasty baddie. Raikkonen and Massa hardly got a mention.

I think that you just summed up the ITV coverage brilliantly. While I believe some of the criticisms of Allen has been a bit unfair he is not the worse thing about the broadcast. Steve rider and Mark Blundell are about is entertaining as having cholera. Rider doesn't have a clue about F1 and needs to be replaced. Ted Kravitz or Louise Goodman might be a better choice looking at their CV's they certainly been involved in motorsport longer than Rider. Hopefully now that Lewis mania has died down a bit ITV will get back to coverage that was good during the schumi years

To be fair to Rider, he doesn't pick the people whom he must interview and he did Formula One for a while when it was on the BBC. What I do find cringeworthy about him is how startled he looks when he talks about Hamilton or talks to Hamilton. He's a like teenage girl meeting the blue-eyed boy she likes from her favourite pop group. I do agree with you that either Kravitz or Goodman deserve to be called up to presenting the show. In fact, sack Rider, get Goodman to present the show, get Kravitz to commentate and send Allen back the pits. That would solve some the problem, for we'd still be left with inadequate time for pre-Grand Prix build-ups and post Grand Prix analysis and no press conferences.

You call an hour of grand prix build up inadequate time? That is way too long i'd rather have half an hour of a Brundle pit walk for pre race build up and extra 30 mins on the post race analysis. Rider picked Anthony Hamilton to interview after every race whether lewis won it or not. That is not fair to me

[Selcouth_Feline]

I like Brundle's pit-walk, particularly when Ecclestone gets him to talk to some random person for his own personal amusement and Brundle has no idea who he is talking to

I hate the ads and it's my major qualm with ITV. That and the fact they don't feel the need to show the whole of the post-race conference - normally, they'll show the winnning driver answering questions and then end the show without bothering to show the rest. Particularly annoying when you have some of the mid-field drivers finishing on the podium.

I don't think you can get rid of James Allen now. His commentary is almost so universally disliked that it is almost a sport in itself - everyone's just waiting to see how many dumb things he can say during the race.

[McLaren Fan]

You call an hour of grand prix build up inadequate time? That is way too long i'd rather have half an hour of a Brundle pit walk for pre race build up and extra 30 mins on the post race analysis. Rider picked Anthony Hamilton to interview after every race whether lewis won it or not. That is not fair to me

The build-up to me is in adequate. When you factor in the adverts you're easily down to 45 minutes. Then factor in the Hamilton-fest and other pointless features and you have 15 minutes of good discussion. The quality of the build-up is more of an issue than the time. The analysis is non-existent. Often we don't even get one if there are Grands Prix with long safety car periods. If Rider does actually pick who he interviews, I apologise on that count. I find it shocking that the producers would give him so much say. Sack Rider and the producers.

[7UpJordan]

Anybody like to predict that Steve Rider and Mark Blundell will be stood outside Hamilton's garage again at every race this year? They'd probably even go stand in front of a cardboard box if it was labelled "Hamilton's Garage" and Garage was spelled wrong.

[al4x]

the hamilton factor is exactly why i prefer the tv coverage when there is no one doing well for the UK