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

Skeeter said:
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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Getting things wrong is fine but when it's almost every time that he gets it wrong, it gets a little tiresome. It is his job after all, he's not just having a go at it for a bit of a hobby. If he just took a breath instead of trying to splurge all his words at once then maybe he'd make fewer mistakes, who knows.

Crofty manages to get it wrong even if there's only 1 car from that team running or if it's blindingly obvious from the cars battling with them. If Manor had been on screen during the Malaysia GP I'm sure he'd have called Merhi wrong.
 
Skeeter said:
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.
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To this day I still don't know who's driven any car with any coloured camera. I still look at the helmet then on the occasion I'm still confused, waited for the caption. I wouldn't have a clue who has the dayglo yellow camera in each car... I actually had to check the Sepang download to see if it was still yellow. :p

I don't have a problem with the FIA restricting helmet changes. It's not like they've done it for the entirety of time or anything silly like that. If you can't go a year without changing your helmet design you've got bigger problems in life, you self-righteous arse.
 
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Skeeter said:
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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Exactly my POV on it, although the one time that Crofty got wrong in Malaysia that stood out for me was because he said it twice, within the space of about 15 seconds, yet the timing was at the bottom of the screen. But 90 percent of the time if he gets it wrong it just doesn't bother me at all. I have exactly the same problem when watching F1 races at the circuit... and when I first went it was super difficult to even work out what position everyone was in because I couldn't see the closest TV that well, not having a pair of binoculars or radio didn't help. When they all start pitting it's absolute chaos as far as trying to work out what position they're all in :D Usually that's around the middle stint/s, at the end it becomes clearer which driver is where.
 
smr said:
I have exactly the same problem when watching F1 races at the circuit... and when I first went it was super difficult to even work out what position everyone was in because I couldn't see the closest TV that well, not having a pair of binoculars or radio didn't help. When they all start pitting it's absolute chaos as far as trying to work out what position they're all in :D Usually that's around the middle stint/s, at the end it becomes clearer which driver is where.
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Try doing that with endurance races. :p

That's where live timing comes in to be honest. I found it impossible before that, but then most seem to be able to keep track somehow - the roars at Silverstone for Mansell in the 80's and 90's stick in my head.
 
Indycar are trialing LED displays of car positions, which seems like a decent idea.

Endurance racing have had lights for the top 3 in class for a while which works well.
 
Did we ever complain when Murray used to make mistakes? Or did we rename them to murray'isms

I have no issues with them making mistakes especially if I can catch it and point out their mistakes to the Mrs.. Makes me sound like I know more than I do
 
Maybe Charlie should call for more safety cars, it seemed to spice up the racing a lot in Malaysia :p or we can spend time discussing racing politics and commentators again...
 
PinkFloyd said:
Neither of those annoy me a fraction as much as "retardation" does when describing braking performance! :p
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It may sound wrong but looks like its actually correct (or at the very least an "americanism")

Retardation is the application of a force that produces negative accelleration.
Synonyms would be braking, decelleration, damping, etc. Gravitational force ...
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It doesnt stop it from "sounding" completely wrong though :)
 
To be honest, Ted has begun to grate on me. He seems to of become really arrogant.
I'll also never forget when he claimed there was no injectors in F1 engines because it is 'direct injection'. *shakes head*
 
Matt-Page said:
To be honest, Ted has begun to grate on me. He seems to of become really arrogant.
I'll also never forget when he claimed there was no injectors in F1 engines because it is 'direct injection'. *shakes head*
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But if the closest we've got is Tom Clarkson it's a non-contest. Ted was never perfect, but that didn't stop him from being brilliant. He was the upside of James Allen replacing Murray.

His scoff at Irvine in one of his notebooks was the stuff of brilliance too.

I know Gary Anderson and his A4 pads got a lot of stick, and he wasn't a TV guy in the slightest, but he did have a knowledge few of the other tech reporters in F1 did, and knocked Kravitz into oblivion when it came to details.

To be honest, as infuriating as he could be when employed by a team, I thought Mike Gascoyne would be a shoe-in for replacing Anderson on the BBC or adding to Sky's otherwise bland panel. He always seemed to be perfectly comfortable talking to the media, was never afraid of giving an opinion and would have been better than either Herbert or Hill, who are much of the same in my opinion, and offer nothing in they way of technical insight, despite their 280 GP between them.
 
I'm all for in depth technical analysis. It is often pushed back by the likes of the BBC as they believe the viewers aren't interested. Maybe they're right about some viewers but the GF and I love the in depth analysis as I'm sure many people do?
 
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