Austrian Grand Prix 2015, Spielberg - Race 8/19

UTmaniac said:
I'm sad to report that so far this season, the only race I watched in its entirety, was Canada. I was bored after Lewis crossed the pit lane exit and then just had the race in the background, was a bit surprised to see Lewis only ~3 secs behind Nico at the end (but no idea if Nico was coasting home).
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they were both coasting but Rosberg more due to a scare with a vibration on the tire which turned out to be not as bad as thought afterwards. But all weekend Rosberg had the advantage. If Hamilton had pushed, Rosberg could have answered.
 
robbiemc said:
Before this video gets pulled from YouTube by 'the powers that be', check out this fan recording of the Alonso/Kimi incident. Admittedly you can't actually see that much, but listen to the sound of those car, miles more interesting than the TV!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpD1CbbABJs
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That was some twitch/snap before it went off track.

I'm curious what the Sky microphones/sound producers are doing that a phone camera can pick up?
 
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Its not Sky, all track side cameras are FOM. The race is covered by a single world feed.

The cars sound a million times better in real life than on TV.
 
Skeeter said:
Its not Sky, all track side cameras are FOM. The race is covered by a single world feed.

The cars sound a million times better in real life than on TV.
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And as I said before - why the hell is anyone surprised? When the guy controlling the TV side of the sport is on record as not being a fan of the engines as they stand right now, it really ought not to be too much of a shock when the engines sound muted on the TV coverage.

Frankly, I'm long since past caring about what F1 cars sound like on TV. I'd just like to hear some half decent commentary. Which is why I watch foreign feeds when I get the chance, because the Sky coverage isn't great and the BBC coverage is truly indescribable. At least, it's indescribable on here since many of my favourite four-letter words are banned.
 
What they're doing to the sound on TV is nothing short of scandalous. This was from testing in Jerez at the beginning of the year. I did last year's test too, and the 2015 cars were noticeably louder this season. Nothing wrong at all with the way they sound in 2015 - far from it.


 
I don't think it's that FOM are actively doing anything to make the cars sound pap, I suspect it's more a case that they simply arent doing anything to make them sound better.
 
Isn't it likely that the track side microphones were configured with a range designed to cope with the racket of the old V10/8 era? The new engines aren't falling within that range so they are failing to capture a lot of the noise?
 
Yep, probably.

But were well into the 2nd season of these engines, I don't think its unreasonable to have expected FOM to have upgraded or reconfigured their kit by now.
 
englishpremier said:
It's not FOM isn't the filming handled by Fuji TV apart from a few races.
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Other way round I think, all the kit and broadcast is done by FOM except for the Japanese GP which is handled by Fuji TV.

There's usually a job advert in Autosport every year for track technicians to work for FOM traveling to each race with the TV and timing kit, setting it up, maintaining it, and then taking it down and taking it to the next race.
 
JRS said:
I'd just like to hear some half decent commentary. Which is why I watch foreign feeds when I get the chance, because the Sky coverage isn't great and the BBC coverage is truly indescribable. At least, it's indescribable on here since many of my favourite four-letter words are banned.
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Out of interest, which international coverage is better than Sky? I had the misfortune of watching NBCSN coverage for Canada and it was awful and really put in to perspective how much I like David Croft & Martin Brundle together. I thought most English speaking nations took Sky's commentary also (well, Oz / NZ at least).

I'd certainly be interested to try out alternate commentary for comparison, but having to endure NBCSN again, I'd rather wait until I was home and risk finding out the result.
 
Skeeter said:
Yep, probably.

But were well into the 2nd season of these engines, I don't think its unreasonable to have expected FOM to have upgraded or reconfigured their kit by now.
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^^

So I wonder why this is. It's not like they're Fifa being scared of technology…
 
Kol said:
They were worse than FIFA when it came to the 4:3 > 16:9 > HD upgrades. They were well behind the times.
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The worst thing about the HD change is they were filming using HD cameras years before they started broadcasting it.

At the 2006 (maybe 2005, can't remember) British GP I spoke to the camera man that hangs out over the apex of the entrance to Maggotts about why he was using HD cameras but they werent broadcasting in HD. He said he didn't know, but that all the track side cameras had been HD for years.
 
Lots of people that don't know. :s Sums up the mess that is everything about F1. Amazing how it's even functional.
 
Kol said:
They were worse than FIFA when it came to the 4:3 > 16:9 > HD upgrades. They were well behind the times.
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Up until 2007 most races had the host broadcaster produce the world feed. The world feed went 16:9 in 2007 when FOM took over all production of all but a couple of races.

As for the reasons I'm not sure. Pick some from : varying standards across the globe, contractual issues or the abject failure of F1 Digital+ in the late 90s.
 
Now that I have my account back after my f'ing and jef'ing

Anyone been watching the post race testing? Anyone see the Williams wing let coming from the floor? Scarbs thinks its legal and JA thinks its not. Thoughts? I can't see why it wouldn't be legal given that the floor has to fill a certain area, so its up to the team if they want to make a full on rear or not and go down the coke bottle tight as bum. The wing let isn't coming from the body work so I guess that's their angle...

Scarbs commenting on it...
https://twitter.com/tgruener/status/613331453611483136

James Allen on it...
http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2015/...uoco-crashes-ferrari-williams-raise-eyebrows/

EDIT: It appears that I didnt read the full tweet! Turns out it isnt legal.

Also, anyone seen the FI nose...

https://twitter.com/tgruener/status/613425095437062144
 
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