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**HarriK** · 16th February 2018, 06:41

Cars are on the stage and we have only interviews from yesterday...

**Slazwierder** · 16th February 2018, 06:43

Originally Posted by er88

What happened to the blonde presenter from Monte? She was good

Yes, where is Kiri?

And why no live images from stage 2 atm?

**sonnybobiche** · 16th February 2018, 06:54

Originally Posted by er88

What happened to the blonde presenter from Monte? She was good

My impression is that they wanted to give more than one girl a trial run, so it was decided well in advance that Kiri Bloore would do Monte and Alexandra Legouix (who some might remember from WTCC) would do Sweden, and they'd decide from there. I feel awful saying this, but so far Legouix has been pure cringe. I know she's dealing with noob director/producers, but Bloore had it even worse and she seemed to raise the quality of the whole production. Legouix needs a script in order to shine.

Molly Pettit has come on by leaps and bounds though, hasn't she?

**er88** · 16th February 2018, 07:29

Originally Posted by sonnybobiche

Molly Pettit has come on by leaps and bounds though, hasn't she?

Yep, she's much better as a co presenter giving her analysis/views, rather than being left on her own like she was at times in Monte (like on the start line etc)

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**sonnybobiche** · 16th February 2018, 07:42

I see the deaf guy is back on the mixing console again, so that's good.

**seb_sh** · 16th February 2018, 09:08

It's amazing to me how by the end of Monte they had a decent setup and now they've just gone two steps back!

And I agree about the presenters, also I'd like to see Colin Clark do the interviews in that media area before service.

**er88** · 16th February 2018, 10:18

Good coverage again from the media zone and service here.

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**bassist** · 16th February 2018, 11:01

Got to be honest, really enjoying the coverage, despite Desborough's stupid observations. The lady, 'Molly' is great.

**sonnybobiche** · 16th February 2018, 11:11

Thoughts from mid-day:

Studio setting is much improved. It's nice that we can see activity in the service park in the background while presenters are talking. Feels like the morning news.

Becs+Desborough works surprisingly well. Desborough in particular is more no-nonsense than ever about driver performance. His, "yeah, last year he crashed into a tree" bit reminded me of James Hunt a little. Please keep it up. And his camera presence improved massively from Monte.

Skoda car onboard cameras are great. Super interesting top-down view into the cockpit, and of course the much longed-for 'center, over the shoulder' view. Could be lowered slightly, but I'm not going to complain given the camera placement on some other cars.

The drivers' PR girls need to make it clear to the teams that in the media zone, when the live cameras are on, TV gets priority. All debriefing stops, and you do the interview. Luckily Molly Pettit has learned to vamp a bit, but she shouldn't have to wait for engineers to finish debriefing to get an interview in the MEDIA zone. But to be fair Molly herself needs to get her elbows out. And if you're live, you get priority over pre-rec. Everyone else gets the fuck out of the way, immediately.

Live segments from the media zone are consistently the most interesting addition to the coverage this year. The hustle and bustle of all those people, it all feels very F1. In a good way.