TV Director

2. Today we had several laps after the start behind the safety car. Perfect time to show endless start replays you'd think. No. The director decided to show the entire safety car period and the second we got back to racing, he decided to run the endless ****ing replays of the start.

As far as I know Japan GP is the only race where a local/Japan director/TV is used.

All other races are under FOM.

Not at all. They covered But/Kob all the time before and it's completly reasonable to show the first and second driver to cross the finish line.

Also "entire safety car period"? Can't remember it being 5 laps. Seriously, bitching about nothing.

Edited by SealTheDiffuser, 07 October 2012 - 12:38.

Today was just desperate stuff from the TV director.

1. We always get those blood start replays just as the drivers start the third lap. The problem ? Just as DRS is activated and just when the pack are at their closest together when DRS is activated.
2. Today we had several laps after the start behind the safety car. Perfect time to show endless start replays you'd think. No. The director decided to show the entire safety car period and the second we got back to racing, he decided to run the endless ****ing replays of the start.
3. On the last lap, Button was all over Koba. We had an exciting moment coming up where Button might attempt to overtake Koba going into the triangle hairpin. What do we get instead. Vettel and Massa waltzing over the line for a 1st and 2nd. We didn't see a thing of what happened between Koba and Button until they appeared on the start - finish straight. Shocking stuff.

Not at all. They covered But/Kob all the time before and it's completly reasonable to show the first and second driver to cross the finish line.

Also "entire safety car period"? Can't remember it being 5 laps. Seriously, bitching about nothing.

Did anyone see the ROS vs. SENNA crash?

For starters they should show the race start from above. You don't see anything in that shitty end-of-the-straight-camera.

Talking about cameras. get rid of those wide angle+zoom cams far away from the track - the cars look like they're driving at 50km/h. take fixed focal lengths or get closer to the track and turn the cams, so you get to see how fast the cars really are.

Edited by DrProzac, 07 October 2012 - 15:04.

Edited by johnmhinds, 07 October 2012 - 15:07.

They have medical helicopters as well, so one with a camera shouldn't be a problem.



The TV feed seemingly gets worse every race. It is harder to miss everything than to film it. I think it is quite annoying to have such below-par footage.

Edited by johnmhinds, 07 October 2012 - 15:29.

I agree 100% with the OP. It's one thing to show Massa crossing the line, but it's showing him coasting and waving for what seemed like half a minute afterwards is stupid when you've got a dramatic battle playing itself out. In fact, seeing as though the director was presumably Japanese, I'm surprised they showed Massa finishing at all. Perhaps he was trying too hard to look impartial?

And not showing the replays until the moment the guys went back to racing was inexcusable.

We only actually had a lap behind the SC, it came out at the end of lap 1 and went in at the end of lap 2. There were a few pit-stops as well at the end of lap 1 (which would be when the other drivers' were a quarter of the way around lap 2) so there would not have been enough time to get the replays up before the SC came in.

As for the last lap bit, you have always seen the winner cross the line, always irrespective of what may be happening behind. I thought the director did well actually, seemed to catch the majority of things live.

You see small gaps (<1 second) on Live Timing, but there is no footage of it. The SEN-ROS crash was not replayed etc etc.

For starters they should show the race start from above. You don't see anything in that shitty end-of-the-straight-camera.

Talking about cameras. get rid of those wide angle+zoom cams far away from the track - the cars look like they're driving at 50km/h. take fixed focal lengths or get closer to the track and turn the cams, so you get to see how fast the cars really are.

Today was just desperate stuff from the TV director.

1. We always get those blood start replays just as the drivers start the third lap. The problem ? Just as DRS is activated and just when the pack are at their closest together when DRS is activated.
2. Today we had several laps after the start behind the safety car. Perfect time to show endless start replays you'd think. No. The director decided to show the entire safety car period and the second we got back to racing, he decided to run the endless ****ing replays of the start.
3. On the last lap, Button was all over Koba. We had an exciting moment coming up where Button might attempt to overtake Koba going into the triangle hairpin. What do we get instead. Vettel and Massa waltzing over the line for a 1st and 2nd. We didn't see a thing of what happened between Koba and Button until they appeared on the start - finish straight. Shocking stuff.

Edited by muramasa, 07 October 2012 - 16:18.

And what exactly was missed by the race director during this race? I don't know what anyone is complaining about really.

Several? It was out for about a lap and a half, during which time numerous cars went into the pits and so were understandably focussed on by the director.

Today was just desperate stuff from the TV director.

1. We always get those blood start replays just as the drivers start the third lap. The problem ? Just as DRS is activated and just when the pack are at their closest together when DRS is activated.