F1 Esports on Sky

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That was utterly hilarious ! Dont know if anyone else on here watched that, basically Sky Sports are doing a virtual F1 season live. The first race was on tv tonight and has just finished, was great fun. All the drivers are either former racing drivers (Johnny Herbert, Nico Hulkenberg etc) or current racing drivers, mixed in with some "celebrity" streamers and some other celebrities (Liam Payne , Chris Foy etc). Looking forward to watching the 2nd race of the season lol

 

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Thought it was a bit amateurish myself, the delay to the race start was getting tedious to say the least. I help run a games server, we don't use F1 2019 but AC, ACC, RRE, GTL etc. but if we had that sort of delay everyone would leave and look elsewhere for their multiplayer online fix. Be nice if they could do proper TV style coverage with replays etc.

I'm pretty sure that the delay was so that Lando and Broadbent could manage to get connected, both seemed to have had connection issues throughout the qualifying. Like they said on the show though, this was "effectively a beta" so I'm ok with the issues they had last night, will see if they have learned from the next time round, that will be the key.

 

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Is ironic when F1 virtual race with (ex)professional drivers is more entertaining than the real thing.

Lol indeed ! I used to be hugely into F1, back in the Prost/Senna days, but these days I find F1 so utterly dull, tedious and devoid of almost anything exciting. Actually found this show last night far more entertaining

 

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I just assumed the show was for entertainment rather than serious sim racing, so I viewed it as such.