Malaysian Grand Prix 2015, Kuala Lumpur - Race 2/19

Malt_Vinegar said:
Brilliant race, seemed to have all the ingredients required to make it very interesting. If only there had been some rain in the last 10 laps it would have been just about perfect!

Also, had some great racing with the Williams car which was awesome when I was sat in Grove :D

I forgot how good/useful it was watching with the lap time information displayed next to the main screen. I used to always do this when I was younger. The chat with Pat Symonds at the beginning was nice, and also the pre-race talk to Massa was interesting. He seemed so calm and jovial at what must be a pretty hectic time.

What I did not know and only realised yesterday is that the drivers parade is recorded, and played back whilst the drivers are doing media/team commitments.

I also got a quick peek into one of the restoration rooms and got to see some of the early cars mid-rebuild. Some fantastic and expensive machinery on show :D
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So no simulator then?
 
JRS said:
Terribly sorry you feel that way deuse. Actually, that's a lie. I'm not sorry at all.

Anyway, quick 'LOL' of the day for me - guess who now has accrued the most penalty points on his licence since they were introduced last year? Drumroll please....

Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for Pastor Maldonado - 8 penalty points, and two thirds of the way to a ban. He gets to lose three of those before China as they time out after 12 months, but if there is one thing we can be certain of in F1 it's that Maldonado will do something worthy of a penalty again fairly soon.
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Points shouldn't time out from when you earn them, but from when you last earned some - so you would need a 12 month clean sheet to remove all points, not just 12 months from when you earned them.

Seems a bit odd.
 
JRS said:
Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for Pastor Maldonado - 8 penalty points, and two thirds of the way to a ban. He gets to lose three of those before China as they time out after 12 months, but if there is one thing we can be certain of in F1 it's that Maldonado will do something worthy of a penalty again fairly soon.
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When the points were first announced I remember working out who would have got a penalty in the previous season, fully expecting Pastor to be top of the list. But surprisingly he didnt get a ban, while both Schumacher and Hamilton would have.
 
Watching the race again on iplayer. My word Ben Edwards. Glad i have sky... anyway... kimi would probably have got p3 if he didnt get punctured so early on. Couldve been a double podium for Ferrari :)
 
Malt_Vinegar said:
Nope, it was very busy, preferred to just mill about the museum rather than sit and wait our turn.
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That was what happened when I was there. I just waited for just before the race to start, as everyone piled down to the bar to get drinks, and then about 3/4 of the way into the race (Monaco last year) I went back up again, and I was in it on my own for 10 mins with the two Williams guys sitting there switching between watching me and watching the race on a massive screen behind me. They did say I was getting quite good at it in the end. I think I got the fastest lap by about 3 seconds whilst at the same time, being rather inebriated from the multiple gin and tonics I had been ploughing back at the start of the race.
 
Ben seems to be thinking he is still on the radio and shout all the time to set the scene, someone should have told him by now that we can all see what's going. He also gets so much into a roll with his shouting that he misses details - yes highly irritating compared to Sky...
 
It will be very interesting to see how the Ferraris and Mercedes cars match up on a track with less extreme track temperatures and tyre degradation.

Vettel's being able to 2 stop in Malaysia would suggest the Ferraris have both good mechanical grip and a good aero balance.
 
chriscatt said:
Ben seems to be thinking he is still on the radio and shout all the time to set the scene, someone should have told him by now that we can all see what's going. He also gets so much into a roll with his shouting that he misses details - yes highly irritating compared to Sky...
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Leggard has the same issue of not being able to transfer from the Radio to TV and just constantly talking. Somehow Crofty seems to have pretty much avoided the same trap on Sky though which is good.
 
Skeeter said:
Leggard has the same issue of not being able to transfer from the Radio to TV and just constantly talking. Somehow Crofty seems to have pretty much avoided the same trap on Sky though which is good.
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I love Crofty, his people skills are immense. He's jovial, light hearted, good fun, knows a thing or two about Formula 1, exudes passion for the Sport, and best of all he's a very good commentator for F1. Perfect voice for it imo, doesn't annoy or grate on me at all, really nice tonal balance whether there's a lot or not much happening on track.

He occassionally gets a couple of things wrong, I think he was referring to Massa at one point and did so a couple of times when it was plain to see it was Bottas who he meant, and I was just thinking to myself "when's Brundle going to stand in and correct him" which he did about 20 seconds later :D

Apart from some annoying hiccups like that he's great, but it is hard to follow a Grand Prix at times, throw in the fact that you're broadcasting live to millions of people and the pressure that must inevitably bring and I think he does a great job.
 
I concur, I've always liked Crofty commentary. Snobs will regard him as too "dumbed down", but I think he makes for good entertainment. The only criticism I have of all the commentators, Brundle especially, is their over use of certain words... "critically" & "Crucially".
 
chriscatt said:
Ben seems to be thinking he is still on the radio and shout all the time to set the scene, someone should have told him by now that we can all see what's going. He also gets so much into a roll with his shouting that he misses details - yes highly irritating compared to Sky...
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Has been ever been a radio commentator? I know the free practice commentaries are split between TV and 5 Live Sports Extra, but I don't think he's ever been a solely radio commentator, unlike David Croft and Jonathan Legard. Edward's has done TV commentary for donkey's years though - at least since the Eurosport had F1 in the early-mid 90s. I really enjoyed his and Jeremy Shaw's ChampCar commentary in the late 90s (including that Michigan 500, which will stick with me to my grave, partly because of Edwards's commentary).

He gets a lot of criticism for his excitable nature, but it's genuine excitement, and much better than the choreographed stuff James Allen used to do on ITV - just think back to how bad the Hungarian GP of 2006 was (though Allen himself is much improved when he does the 5 Live and free practice commentary).

I really don't mind which I watch. Sky's pre and post-shows are rubbish now, and only Kravitz is worth the extra. Brundle is better than Coulthard, but even he isn't what he was a few years ago. Croft and Edwards I could give and take - both have redeeming qualities and nagging annoyances.
 
I liked Crofty but he has really become Leggard recently. The slightest bit of action and he starts shouting at full speed and usually gets details wrong, like the drivers name... He was a lot better on radio 5live.
 
Not so much any more, but martin brundle would always describe tyres that had had a big lockup as "looking like a 50 pence piece".

As MooMoo says though, "for sure" is used far too much by lots of the presenters and drivers, Johnny Herbert being the worst offender
 
I don't get why people have such an issue with the names thing. There are 2 of every car out there and they are almost identical. They are so difficult to tell apart the FIA have stuck day glow cameras on one and made drivers run the same helmet all year to make things easier.

Track side I've always struggled to tell cars apart, especially at a glance or at a distance. I think we can forgive the commentators for getting it wrong occasionally when they are looking at 5 different screens and trying to ensure they are doing a good job of commentating.
 
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