Did anyone else notice the commentary team at Albert Park were Channel 10 rejects? Crompton, McConville, Louise Goodman, Peter Windsor, probably more.

Coudn't agree more. It was like heaven listening to Nick Harris for the highlights of 125's and Moto2. Do Rust and Beattie do the commentary for those two classes live or do they allow the more professional Brits do it?

Didn't watch 125s or Moto2 the other day, so not sure. Those clowns wouldn't know any of the riders so it would foolish for them to try............

Over on the MotoGP/WSBK thread, they bag Harris for his commentary, clearly they haven't heard the Aussies.

Yes - which shows the depth of commentary of F1 in Oz.......one of them knows F1 well but commentates on V8SC, one commentates on F1 and knows little about it, one of them is fantastic value whatever she does and the other one was cheap as chips.
Windsor didn't add a great deal other than speculation during the weekend. I'd think Crompton and Goodman in the "studio" (tent in the food and beer court!) would have done fantastically well over the weekend. Not sure that McConville and Windsor added much.....

Least the race action helped us lol morning guys

Yep, probably the best race I've been to (next to Suzuka 97). Hell, we only grabbed one beer during the race!

I just wish I heard them ask Windsor what went wrong with USF1, if they did, I missed it. : (

I don't think they did, bah it was all a farce it seems sadly..

They did - the answer went something like "The FIA have told us not to say anything...."

I'm wanting to know If someone could tell if there is a bar where I could watch the China race Live in Melbourne (CBD). I'm sure someone here would know.

Thanks

CK

Please forget I asked. I have now found the thread I was looking for. The second Sticky Thread from the top

So no live qualifying this weekend. I think we are going to have to move to the UK.

yeah wtf, one is showing 30mins of WRC highlights before qualifying and delaying it? what the hell is the point of that.

In the Chinese GP race telecast who keeps talking over the BBC commentaters?

Am wondering the same thing, sounded like the dude was on the phone.

best guess would be BBC producer speaking to eddie jordan who was stuck in london, but still was on the line to give his looney comments

Happy Anzac day weekend guys.

Pleasantly surprised to see that qualifying (in Melbourne at least) was telecast at the live(ish?) time of 10.30 on Saturday night.

Unfortunately I assumed it would be delayed until about 1am, and didn't bother to check the TV guide before getting stuck into a movie..

grah... it'd be great if we got a TV tax or something, bloody ads ruining qualifying/race coverage, and no live FP...

Yep - I'd pay for a tv licence if it meant we could get rid of the ads. Unfortunately it is never gonna happen...

under the current climate, be careful of what you wish for

Anyone know how many hours of LeMans ONEHD is going to show ?

Wow , I am excited to be able to see this for the first time !!!

considering how they can shift sports programming to other channels (a majority of one hd programming is filler) I'd expect most of it to be covered

Thats what foxtel is for - Fox sports runs rings around any FTA coverage of any sport

Im so excited right now - i feel like a kid a Christmas!!!!!!!

Im still too scared to believe that Mark could have a shot at the Championsip - it has a too good to be true feel about it and Im waiting for the bad luck to return at some point

Still its his 8th year in f1 so im subscribing to the theory that his 7 years bad luck is over!

Oh yeah - $100 a month is worth it so you don't have to watch advert... oh...

um I pay 86 per month for everything so im not sure where your getting that from

if your a smoker or a drinker or go to the movies often then youd spend more than 100 for a month easally

and besides if you had a brain you would realise its more than just the ads - sport on telly at the time it is actually playing as apose to 5hr to a week delyaed depending on how lucky we are, without interuptions and commentators who actally know what they are saying/doing is worth every penny

Um... my comment wasn't aimed at you personally - but if you had a brain you'd remember the selling point of Foxtel when it first came in was that it was supposed to have no ads.

My father has Foxtel, and personally I can't justify spending the cash when I can generally see most of what I want to see on FTA. And if I can't see it on FTA I can download it.

If you can justify the cost then bully for you - I can't myself...

There are no ads during any sport unless its from an overseas feed where they put ads in (nothing they can do about that). Also if your in australia and your downloading tv from the net (which we all do) then your paying for it seeming our download limits are very small compared to other countries.

Ive actually stopped watching motogp this year, i just cant handle it on 10/one. Doesnt even come close to how good it was on foxsports

Le Mans documentary on onehd NOW

Yeh foxsports motogp was first class.
I think for 1 race One/Ten had their own guys doing commentary.. hated it, but next race they went back to live feed commentary team foxsports used.

We finally get OneHD up here (regional area) only to find F1 races are all 30min delayed. wtf.
They said due to the time zone differences between NT and other states there is a half hour delay on One HD and this unavoidable.

Good thing i didn't take down my sat dish as i can get live F1 from Indonesia and not Australia. FFS.

Foxtel shits all over anything FTA when it comes to sport. Yeah...you have to pay, but given the various ways people find to piss money up against the wall these days, on a regular basis, I'd say the pay per month excuse is well worn out.

I'd love for a brilliant F1 coverage to be on Fox Sports and I'd pay, in fact I hope it happens one day. It's the only way you will get great coverage of F1 in Australia.

When they were doing MotoGP, it was fantastic.

is there any F1 coverage on this weekend on ten HD?... i know le mans is on and F1 seems to be absent from all the schedules

Qualifying is on at 2.30am Sunday morning and the race is at 1.50am Monday morning in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. You can check it here...

Then Socceroos vs Germany at 4am, its gonna be a HUGE night!

Thank god its a public holiday on monday!

I luck out a little as it's a 12pm race 2.30pm game for me There's a Kraut club up the road, reakon they'll have me?

You already do in Australia, it's just built into your income tax instead of being a separate fee. How do you think the ABC is funded?

I do know that but it was something like the equivalent of 8 cents a day years ago before all the Howard Government funding cuts, so not sure what it is now.

The UK tv licence was something like 127 quid - about 35pence a day - 3 years ago. The ABC does a pretty good job with the funding it gets but doesn't really compare with the BBC due to the massive amount of money the BBC gets to play with.

Only if they're winning...

Maybe one of my fellow Aussies can help me with this question: Anyone here know why ONE HD broadcast full coverage only of the Nationwide series but we only get hour long highlights of Sprint Cup races?

I'd suggest it's probably bang for your buck - Sprint Cup race coverage (probably) is more expensive than Nationwide coverage - though far less people watch sprint Cup races on Monday morning, rather than Nationwide races on Sunday morning. So I'd say it's just straight out value for money.

I thought it was because Foxtel had the rights?

..to those that missed the Promo.(brief),Tony Gaze will be on 'Talking Heads' at 6.30pm Monday,ABC TV,not sure how much the interview will focus on his Motor Racing but should be interesting anyway.

Sounds bloody perfect, sprint cup is rubbish honestly. I tried watching it last year with Ambrose in it but **** me, each race is like 4 hour slong with 20 yellows, the last 20 laps take an hour as they **** arse about with yellows. Absolute shite, so i watch the highlight show on SPEED in Canada

Baird Beattie Rust

...for their ridiculous Webber biased comments blaming Kovalainen's 'poor driving' for causing the Webber-Heikki collision.

I was irrate at the garbage that was coming out of their mouths.


Just for 10 minutes, please, take your Webber glasses off.

Agreed. The lot of them really are terrible, especially Baird.

What - you're about to become eminently dissapointed that Heikki has been something other than a roving speedbump in the sport for the past 5 years or so? Most of us want to watch racing - not a ****ing civil libertarians motorsport event. He was slow - he wasn't in the race - he should have just got out of the way - the same way that Jordan and Minardi did for years without any hassles. Lotus' fight right now is with HRT and Virgin - not Red Bull.

...and if you don't like Australian commentators backing Australians - then you're living in the wrong country - head on over an read AMus for a bit of perspective of what real pointless nationalistic bullshit reads like.

Agreed - but not about their comments last night.

Deadset you have NFI and are an utter embarrassment. You actually sum up the whole attitude to the situation rather...erm...fittingly.

obvious troll is .... well you've read it often enough...

Say whatever you like but you need to take a look around. From a racing perspective, your opinion regarding Webbers incident is beyond a joke.

That's the brutal truth. Don't like it...too bad.

I didn't like the total bias from those 3. The fight was for position, and for godsake there was no need for slipstreaming there.