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DHCanary said:
Ok, seeing as the BBC seem incapable of quality journalism a lot of the time, here's a thread for posting any mistakes you find, so we can all laugh at them.

1) Sarah Holt twitter - 'nuff said
2) http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/9387000.stm When did Coulthard ever race for Ferrari?
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People never get into courses such as journalism because the competition...
These are the people they are competing with them.

A huge company like this should never even think of making mistakes like this.
Utter shambles :sad:
 
BBC dont give a damn about F1 coverage. At least ITV gave it full attention as one of its prime sports viewings
 
I'm pretty disappointed with the BBC at the moment. There is no justification for them cutting services when they have 'journalists' like Sarah Holt being paid to travel around reporting on nothing. I know the guys on this thread are primarily F1 fans but I follow football also and it's the same there, they have useless pundits everywhere like Robbie Savage and Danny Mills, who are paid to basically talk tripe and be annoying. The BBC has even employed a new pit-lane reporter, whats the need for that, couldn't they have done it internally, maybe got Sara Holt to do it for example?
BBC- epic fail in my book!:steam:
 
Got into the office at BBC HQ today & handily found an F1 team launch downstairs. Virgin present their 2011 car - Sarah Holt

<doh>

I also noted they called Boulier, Houllier :mad: in the early version of the Kubica story. I get the feeling they dont have specialist F1 knowledgable people at the BBC other than Brundle and DC
 
BBC dont give a damn about F1 coverage. At least ITV gave it full attention as one of its prime sports viewings
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Then stuck adverts in during the pit stops. Much prefer BBC's coverage to ITV's.
 
Alfie said:
Then stuck adverts in during the pit stops. Much prefer BBC's coverage to ITV's.
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Not just the pit stops. On average (I did keep a check on a number of occasions) the advert breaks accounted for as much as 20% of the race. That's a fifth. Or 12 laps of a 60 lap race such as the British Grand Prix.
I know which kind of 'Full attention' I'd rather have.
 
Funny you should say that actually. I remember watching a GP with me dad and grandad and we counted how many 'breaks' they had. Now a 60 lap race back then was, as you said, the British GP and I think we were watching the Malaysian GP, which has 56 laps. Even then we counted 6 of these breaks, which by my count is about 1 every 9 laps
 
that was strange that there was a short distance between adverts. Football would go 45 mins before a break
 
El_Bando said:
that was strange that there was a short distance between adverts. Football would go 45 mins before a break
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That's because ITV were taking the piss with the number of ads in Grands Prix, and it got worse towards the end of their tenure. Football would never have allowed it. Do you remember the infamous occasion when they actually missed the end of the race at Imola (not only that but a particularly exciting one with Schumacher holding off Alonso,I seem to remember), due to an ad break and had to replay the last two or three laps afterwards? Disgraceful behaviour and I for one was glad to see the back of them. So if the BBC make some reporting or journalistic errors, that's forgivable for me, as they are getting the basics right.
 
BBC got the rights because ITV wasn't making any money out of F1 no matter how many adverts they have thrown though-out the race <ok>
 
Sarah Holt on twitter - "Just popped to Williams for a cup of tea & a custard cream. The paddock is really busy today with fans and guests."

This bitch needs a slap!
 
Jose Lorca said:
Sarah Holt on twitter - "Just popped to Williams for a cup of tea & a custard cream. The paddock is really busy today with fans and guests."

This bitch needs a slap!
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No techincal analysis, or any other news, she does need a slap!
What is she being paid to do, fat bitch.
 
On the other hand look at autosport.com's live testing text commentary, more professional.
 
Sarah Holt makes a misleading article on the BBC page titled "Red Bull on top so far - Alonso"

That's not exactly what Alonso said, he only made the point that they are expected to be ahead:

Alonso said: "We all know that Red Bull should be ahead of everybody. So we expect Red Bull to be very competitive."
 
She isn't very good at this. She got excited that Alguersuari had second place by 0.2 of a second. wow it's testing, this is supposed to happen. If she interviews a driver at the start of the season, and takes accounts of whoever had the fastest lap in the last test session, she should be shot........bring back Murray Walker in the commentary box, and let Coulthard interview everyone, I'm sure people would actually appreciate talking to him.
 
Why employ this guy to write such inaccurate trash? Most of us could do better than this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2011/06/could_hamilton_join_red_bull.html

Hamilton's frustration is down to the fact that he believes he is the fastest driver in the world, that he would be beat any of his rivals if they were all driving the same car. It is a belief largely shared within Formula 1.
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Since when?

Hamilton is certainly the quickest [driver]
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Any evidence to support this Andrew?

[Hamilton] is facing a third consecutive year in a car that is arguably not really fast enough to allow him to compete for another [title]
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Bollocks. He could have won it last year without errors/ bad luck, and without mistakes he could have been very close to Vettel this year and have a realistic chance

The same goes for Vettel, who is under contract to Red Bull until 2013.
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It's 2014! <doh>

Putting Hamilton alongside the German would be a wonderful proposition for F1's audience but it would be a massive headache for those inside the team. And such a move would be guaranteed to infuriate Vettel, the company's blue-eyed boy wonder.
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When has Vettel given his views about Hamilton as a teammate?

Equally, while Vettel would probably be furious at having Hamilton alongside him to start with, he might well come round to the idea. He already has an advantage as the incumbent and, while he may not be as fast as Hamilton, he is, by reputation, better at working with his engineers to get the best out of his car.
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Where's his proof of that?

Then his nonsense about the second Ferrari seat is just speculation at the moment. I would trust him when he says "I'm told" or "I understand".
 
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