Indy 500 - Alonso

kaiowas · 28 May 2017 at 18:37

pacegod said:
Do they really need to talk endlessly about Alonso.

The BT coverage is so patronising it's cringeworthy. They've taken a default position of assuming none of their audience have evr seen oval racing before.

Slam62 · 28 May 2017 at 18:38

This like gladiators

MagicBoy · 28 May 2017 at 18:49

Glad I'm watching the ABC feed then!

BT wheeled out Keith Huewen and some third rate long forgotten British driver who tried and failed to qualify for the 500 years ago?

lego · 28 May 2017 at 18:54

Was close with Harvey and the recovery vehicle, you would think they would have learnt something from F1 in that regard

steve45 · 28 May 2017 at 18:55

kaiowas said:
The BT coverage is so patronising it's cringeworthy. They've taken a default position of assuming none of their audience have evr seen oval racing before.

Yeah mate definitely cringe! This BT coverage is shocking.

I'm really enjoying this though, this is proper genuine racing.
I've been guilty of mocking oval racing in the past, i will humbly eat my words, the speed and danger is absolutely absurd! slightest mistake is almost certainly going to end in a trip to the barrier.

Jimbeam3678 · 28 May 2017 at 18:56

Not sure if that guys shades are large enough!

kaiowas · 28 May 2017 at 18:56

MagicBoy said:
Glad I'm watching the ABC feed then!

BT wheeled out Keith Huewen and some third rate long forgotten British driver who tried and failed to qualify for the 500 years ago?

Suzi Perry is playing the role of 'clueless noob'. Mike conway is the driver and they've got some old guy as the 'expert' but I've no idea who he is and he doesn't seem to have a great deal of Indy specific insight

Flibster · 28 May 2017 at 19:02

The world feed commentators are terrible.

Concrete · 28 May 2017 at 19:02

I relented and watched the f1 followed by this.

This is way more exciting.

Merlin5 · 28 May 2017 at 19:07

kaiowas said:
Suzi Perry is playing the role of 'clueless noob'.

I was surprised to see Suzi Perry as the presenter, I'd been wondering what she was up to these days. Steven Jones really makes her look so amateur though.

muon · 28 May 2017 at 19:07

Started watching this after the restart from Scott Dixon's crash.

I don't find this that exciting.

The race will basically just happen in the final 50 laps. All the racing now doesn't look like will have much bearing on the result?

Bazzards · 28 May 2017 at 19:08

These guys genuinely appear to driving on the edge. F1 could learn a lot.

Flibster · 28 May 2017 at 19:08

muon said:
Started watching this after the restart from Scott Dixon's crash.

I don't find this that exciting.

The race will basically just happen in the final 50 laps. All the racing now doesn't look like will have much bearing on the result?

50?

Try 10.

The other 190 are just for the carnage.

Glaucus · 28 May 2017 at 19:12

camera work is so much better than f1, despite the lack of anything. lots of on boards, lots of up close cameras on the track which give great impression of speed. F1 really could learn something here.

Kelt · 28 May 2017 at 19:12

Even though the "real" racing won't happen until the final ten laps, I still find it more entertaining than Monaco, far more so.

Flibster · 28 May 2017 at 19:13

Fast cuts, the secret of making anything interesting and more exciting.

See the Bond and Bourne movies.

drunkenmaster · 28 May 2017 at 19:14

Glaucus said:
camera work is so much better than f1, despite the lack of anything. lots of on boards, lots of up close cameras on the track which give great impression of speed. F1 really could learn something here.

It's an oval track, it's inherently drastically easier to film. because of the way it is there are cameras all over the place very close to the track where at a track which goes all over the place there will be corners where the closest a camera could be is 5 times further away.

Glaucus · 28 May 2017 at 19:17

drunkenmaster said:
It's an oval track, it's inherently drastically easier to film. because of the way it is there are cameras all over the place very close to the track where at a track which goes all over the place there will be corners where the closest a camera could be is 5 times further away.

f1 is mega rich and can afford cameras, secondly f1 has had apex cameras before. it is nothing they don't already have or could do. they just have poor directors. The ones which don't even show overtakes etc.

Duke · 28 May 2017 at 19:27

Just started watching, complete Indy noob here

steve45 · 28 May 2017 at 19:27

One thing i do have to say, these car are not good looking.