Went in my youger days to the British Grand Priz at Aintree to watch Stirling Moss. Think he was driving the new British car the BRM.A bit disappointing as a crowd member.The cars flash past you and then you wait for an eternity until they flash past again and then a couple of hours later everything stops, a winner is announced and you head for the exits. Never went again anda have never watched it on TV but at least I experienced it.
Sky are really starting to piss me off. They have all the sport now its **** whats the point when most people wont buy sky anyway. half of F1 fans will stop watching it now. i know i will which is dissapointing as i really liked the sport. ITV shudda bought it back .****ers! rant over
I had the "pleasure" of this news, and within about an hour of it receiving an email from Sky asking them what I thought about them as a company. Having been a rugby league fan as a youngster I've seen it turned to **** with the whole "Superleague" thing helping bring about the end of the real Hull FC. As a Rovers fan I don't feel any rivalry with "Gateshead ta Hull FC" because it's not really Hull FC and it's seen my interest in the sport dwindle with the nail in the coffin being the americanised franchise system with no promotion or relegation just because Sky wanted to make rugby out to be more than it is/was. Then there's them trying to create the same kind of setup with the big football clubs, but because it's more important to people than RL was they've not been able to push it through as far as quickly because the money they've pumped in has been coming up against other people with megamoney and their own agendas. Turning round now and telling me they're taking away half of the F1 and stopping me watch it unless I pay them an extra £20 a month for the sports is taking the piss (due to the above I lost interest in watching games at the top level as a neutral because it's just so dodgy the way it's all done, so with us out the PL there's no point in me having SS). I'm not paying £240 to watch 10 races (the rest still being on BBC), especially when if the BBC is cherry picking there's a good chance it'll include Valencia, Bahrain, Hungary and every other track known for producing the dullest races. The thing Sky have done though is made me look at my actual subscription. I went through my planner and everything on it for this week bar the F1 is either available through iplayer (or equivalent) or is something that's filling time without being something I'd actually miss if I couldn't watch it. So I'm effectively paying my TV licence and Sky subscription to be able to watch/record the F1 live. That's £380 a year for 10 races, I'm not going to keep paying that, I'm not even interested in paying the £150 a year for the TV licence to be able to watch half a championship on the telly. I'm just going to cancel it all including the TV licence and just watch iplayer and DVDs instead. Rather ironic that as someone who's been to places like Canada to go to the GP there I'm going to be cancelling my Sky subscription because Sky have got the rights to F1.
I'm currently paying Sky £1,440 a year and the BBC £600 a year, it's pricey watching telly nowadays.
I'm beyond annoyed about sky getting the F1, I hope people show their frustrations and don't go wasting £50 a month on getting sky. Sky's motor sport coverage is poor to say the least. I think the government should step in really as one channel monopolising all the major sporting coverage is surely preventing fair competition. Additionally I'd urge anyone with sky to look at what you have saved on your sky+ as I did. I suspect alot of people like myself will only have stuff that is recorded off terrestrial channels anyway which is why I though that apart from the odd other programme and the odd football match why am I actually paying for it. Thats why I cancelled it and bought a freest HD PVR box instead paired for itself within a couple of months.
No need to look for illegal streams if you sign up to the RTL website they stream every race just mute your computer and stick 5live on
I think you still need a license to watch I-Player Ricardo, the point you make about the BBC cherry-picking the races is spot on, the coverage is going to be disrupted beyond belief and a complete farce, not to mention that it is bound to suffer from having to share with Sky in terms of the presenters. They will probably be dredging the bottom of the barrel for people to front the coverage, can see it being Clare Balding or some other person with no knowledge of the sport.
All but six F1 weekends are on pay television here in the US and it's been that way for several years. The six that are on free TV are tape delayed to a more "desirable" time slot. Things aren't free. More than half of the NASCAR races are on pay television, too. I suppose they all have to make their money.
You do indeed, you need a license for anything that you can watch(or record/demand) live TV on. If you have a license at home, it also covers you for all mobile devices, so in theory, I could stop paying my TV license in London and just watch TV in the car park for free.
Formula 1 with ad breaks is a joke. Seems a shame the bbc can no longer afford it, the itv coverage was poor and if the sky coverage has ad breaks that will be the same.
I just don't see how it makes sense for the BBC to scrap something that has been getting 10-year high ratings for the last 2 years. They'll say it's to save money but I'm sure that other things (I'm looking at you BBC3) could have been scrapped instead. It's laughable how they can send 250 people to cover that silly "One year to go" Olympic thing and then go on about cutting costs. They paid Johnathan Ross £26 Million over 4 years for Christ sake. I'm not a huge F1 fan but I do watch a few races a year. The coverage on the BBC has been fantastic from what I've seen and didn't they just win a BAFTA? I have Sky so it won't effect me, but this decision is awful and in the long run will be terrible for F1.
That was a bad tyre change error for Lewis in a fairly uneventful race(fire apart), but it was certainly a good win for Button. It's a shame it's probably too little, too late.
You don't need a license if you watch iPlayer if you're not watching in REAL TIME (i.e. streaming). I had a long discussion with the TVLA as to just why I didn't have a TV license. Simple, really: I don't have a TV! When I said I only watched iPlayer, the TVLA guy warned me that the Beeb was starting to stream programmes (from last September, if I remember rightly). If I streamed, I needed a license; if I merely downloaded a programme shown previously, and then watched it - I didn't need a license.
Bad strategy from Lewis, shouldn't of gone for S-Soft then def should not of swapped to Inters. 2 in a row though for Mclaren, seem to be improving their form from the start of the season.
I only need one if I watch a simulcast (ie streamed at the same time as it's on TV). If I chose to download Question of Sport now I could do it without a TV licence. For your London flat, a mobile device is any device which is powered by internal batteries and you can watch it anywhere (including other buildings). With Sky now allowing you to watch TV on a couple of mobile devices over the internet it means you could have a laptop with mobile broadband and watch whatever you want in the flat so long as you don't plug the laptop in whilst you're doing it. (The batteries power the laptop and the laptop powers the dongle so it's all internal)
Never too late in F1, Vettel only won the title on the last GP last season after never leading the title race for the entire season, Kimi did something similar in 2007 (F1 geek speaking!) Interesting comments regarding Iplayer
I'd look more at the fact we're only just over half way through the season. If McLaren (or Alonso) have the form Red Bull had in the first half of the season then Vettel needs to match what they did in the first half. The only thing is now Vettel has 4 cars that could easily finish in front of him whereas before the McLarens only really had the Red Bulls to worry about because Ferrari were off the pace. Granted the fact McLaren and Ferrari have both caught Red Bull up is working in Vettel's favour at the moment because they're taking points off each other. I can't think when after 11 races someone has gone 3 races without a win and still has a bigger lead at that stage than they'd ever had.
