BBC possibly to drop F1 coverage...

Fr0dders · 9 Sep 2011 at 22:12

Skeeter said:
Yeah, thats totally the same as cancelling a Sky contract because they wanted to send an engineer out for free

I was pointing out that us brits love to moan about silly pointless things

especially if that somebody is doing something different.

Slam62 · 10 Sep 2011 at 15:32

AcidHell2 said:
I need a pay rise.
R5L team should have always been the main commentators.

did you hear them in fp3, absolute disgrace 'Crofty' was terrible.

Him and Chandock having an arguement over something which nobody cared about.

Pete19s · 10 Sep 2011 at 15:45

Slam62 said:
did you hear them in fp3, absolute disgrace 'Crofty' was terrible.

Him and Chandock having an arguement over something which nobody cared about.

I may be in a minority here but I found it quite amusing. It's light hearted fun & I enjoy the free practice sessions immensely because of it.

Glaucus · 10 Sep 2011 at 15:50

Slam62 said:
did you hear them in fp3, absolute disgrace 'Crofty' was terrible.

Him and Chandock having an arguement over something which nobody cared about.

Once in several years, compared to a disgrace at every show. But no I didn't see it, was watching rugby.

Commentators will never be brilliant at ever show.

Duke · 10 Sep 2011 at 18:17

**** YOU BERNIE & RUPERT

Got me a second dish to point at a Euro sat

£25 for the kit inc receiver from B&Q!

Slam62 · 10 Sep 2011 at 18:29

I watched a qually on RTL and BBC, didn't miss a great deal and the explanation of camber etc was better on RTL.

Actually, I saw a bit of the RAI sport 1 coverage until it became encrypted and it looked streets ahead of the beeb,

imo (only my opinion) the beeb have gone way too far top gear in their approach.

they need to treat viewers as grown ups, now if I could imagine Sky going that way... somehow I don't think so.

[TW]Taggart · 11 Sep 2011 at 12:14

Slam62 said:
did you hear them in fp3, absolute disgrace 'Crofty' was terrible.

Him and Chandock having an arguement over something which nobody cared about.

i thought it was quite funny tbh

Longbow · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:41

Since I don't want to read every post here... when does the BBC F1 contract run out?

CaptainRAVE · 11 Sep 2011 at 15:44

Loved the chanting against F1 going to Sky after the race

khevolution · 11 Sep 2011 at 15:50

does anybody know which sky sports channel the f1 is going to next year?

Pete19s · 11 Sep 2011 at 16:32

khevolution said:
does anybody know which sky sports channel the f1 is going to next year?

I believe it is going to be Sports 1 & 2 just to rub salt into the wounds.

Cob · 11 Sep 2011 at 16:35

Will be available on Freeview then.

Still won't be subscribing to it.

Jay794 · 11 Sep 2011 at 16:41

Finally, now they just need to drop the Snooker, why can't all sports be shown on a group of channels like Sky Sports but free, and nothing else, Top Gear gets more viewers than the Snooker yet they still show the Snooker instead of Top Gear, Sports should stick to sports channels

khevolution · 11 Sep 2011 at 17:14

Pete19s said:
I believe it is going to be Sports 1 & 2 just to rub salt into the wounds.

BUGGER I can just about justify spending another 8 quid for a bit of racing but 16 quid is a bit steep for my liking

Zuban · 12 Sep 2011 at 14:29

Just to test I watched some of the quali and race on the live stream from rtl.de, picture quality wasnt very good but it was fine for keeping up with what is going on, timing was in sync with what i was getting on the bbc via freesat, put on 5live for commentary.

georges · 12 Sep 2011 at 16:00

The rtl stream isn't in English is it? If it is, whats the satellite requirements or online paid stream website? Ta

Glaucus · 12 Sep 2011 at 16:03

He's using r5l for commentray. All stations receive the same video feed. So commentary will match what you see, even though he's using different sources.

Skeeter · 12 Sep 2011 at 16:06

Only problem with that plan is the rumour Crofty will be moving to Sky. The R5L idea works because of the good combinaton of Crofy, Davidson and occasionally Chandhok. If Crofty goes elsewhere, we could be left with a total dufus on R5L

Zuban · 12 Sep 2011 at 16:12

just go to www.rtl.de when the quali or race is on and it will be on the front page a link to the live f1 coverage, its hard to miss, and it doesnt cost anything.

Am still tempted by getting a second dish but tbh i watch most of the races on my pc anyway so unless they geoblock the stream next year rtl online+ 5live might do fine for me for the races not on bbc.

Slam62 · 12 Sep 2011 at 16:12

georges said:
The rtl stream isn't in English is it? If it is, whats the satellite requirements or online paid stream website? Ta

well tbh comentary is in German, however some of it sounds like english

RTL is free on 19.2e at the moment, pretty easy to pick up.