[OT] F1 Qualifying... run that past me again

"KeithB" > wrote in message
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> What it boils down to in the end is pandering to commercial TV.

So how do you think we get to watch sport on TV for free. Someone has to
pay.

Stop complaining and enjoy what your getting.

(KeithB) wrote:

> BBC?

They talked about the race on BBC Sports News.

Andrew McP

Darryl Johnson wrote:

>>Or some engineer will develop a gas guzzling engine map that can
>>use up half a tank in the outlap

> They only get a gas credit for those laps that are faster than
> 107% of the ultimate pole time. And the gas credit, IIRC, is a
> calculated value: don't ask me how it is calculated.
>
> So if the driver goes out and does a bunch of slow laps to burn
> off gas, he won't get any gas to replace that used in those slow
> laps.

Hence I said outlap. Some bright spark will find a means of developing
the worst fuel economy - a whole new challenge!

"Bruce Kennewell" wrote...
> What a load of "created just for TV" crap!!

Agreed, previous format was better, except for the "same tyres and fuel as
you start the race with"-idiocy.

Jan.
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>What a load of "created just for TV" crap!!

So you saw it in person from Bahrain?

Unless you're bernie you tend to watch your races from TV and they tend
to have comercials that have to be sold based on audience count..

Andrew MacPherson wrote:
> (KeithB) wrote:
>
>> BBC?
>
> They talked about the race on BBC Sports News.
>
> Andrew McP
>

Aaah, I see. Thanks for clarifying that.

Izzy wrote:
> "KeithB" > wrote in message
> ...
>> What it boils down to in the end is pandering to commercial TV.
>
> So how do you think we get to watch sport on TV for free. Someone has to
> pay.
>
Err, you mean F1 actually costs money? And the TV coverage costs money
as well? Oh dear. Well of course that completely undermines my whole
position because I had absolutely no idea that was the case. I thought
the whole thing was magicked up by Mr Frizzibumble the magician waving
his big wand over a top hat, and the pictures simply popped out and
jumped down the wires to our TV sets.

<Pauses to take medication... :-) >

Izzy, let's be serious here for a moment. Who paid when the BBC were
covering F1 in a much more viewer-friendly and professional way? Why
can't we go back to that system again? Why have we got to the state
where the TV companies are allowed to screw around with the rules of the
sport so that they can make more money, at the expense of us getting
worse coverage?

> Stop complaining and enjoy what your getting.
>
Why should I not complain about something which is sub-standard and
could be so much better? Why should I be lazy and apathetic? Why should
I enjoy something that has been spoilt by greed and commercialism? Why
should I silently put up with my enjoyment of a sport being corrupted
and polluted by money-obsessed control-freaks, mainly from outside that
sport? (BTW Bernie 'rich-as-Malawi-and-Botswana-put-together' Ecclestone
is one example of a money-obsessed control freak who is INSIDE F1. It's
not all the fault of the TV companies.)

If you're perfectly happy with the way that big business and
commercialism are encroaching ever further into our lives, making us
watch adverts more and more, and trying to sell us things that we don't
want, then you're lazy and/or gullible.

And if you're so lazy and/or gullible that you just want to roll over
and take it up the rear, then fine. You do that. I hope it brings a
smile of pleasure to your face. If you can still look at yourself in the
bathroom mirror in the mornings, despite your lack of self-respect, then
that's great.

Me, I've got more balls than that. I don't like being pushed around. I
may not be able to win against big business, but I can sure as hell make
a lot of loud and vehement noise. And no-one has the right to tell me to
stop.

No. I didn't "watch it in person from Bahrain."
And neither did I watch it in person in front of the TV.
I didn't watch it. Period.

I gave up watching this sort of manufactured-for-TV pap years ago.
Tracks designed specifically for TV, abso-bloody-lutely ridiculous rules
designed for TV and costs and strictures that have completely banished just
about anything other than a manufacturer's team to the graveyard.

F1?
No.

Grand Pricks?
Oh, most definitely.

BK

"mcewena" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> >What a load of "created just for TV" crap!!
>
> So you saw it in person from Bahrain?
>
> Unless you're bernie you tend to watch your races from TV and they tend
> to have comercials that have to be sold based on audience count..
>

>
> ....they tend to have comercials that have to be sold based on audience count..
>

Which is precisely the problem. When those commercials become the
overall driving factor ('scuse the pun) behind the sport, the sport suffers.

KeithB wrote:

(BIG SNIP)

> Izzy, let's be serious here for a moment. Who paid when the BBC were
> covering F1 in a much more viewer-friendly and professional way? Why
> can't we go back to that system again? Why have we got to the state

The viewers, who have to buy a license to own a television. I still
can't wrap my brain around that concept. Very kind of them to only
charge half price to the blind. I think I'd buy a radio instead.


Don McCorkle