Fox Sports Finally Pulled Rank

[Rollo]

"The John Logie Baird Television Was Better in 1984 Memorial Cup" at the end of Round 2 looks like this:

18 Hamilton
10 Rosberg
6 Vettel
6 Raikkonen
3 Massa
3 Bottas
2 Nasr
2 Riccardo

The Constructor's Championship is thus:

28 Mercedes
12 Ferrari
6 Williams
2 Sauber
2 Red Bull

The next race is in Monaco.
You probably thought that there's probably another GP in between. Nope.

[Rollo]

"The John Logie Baird Television Was Better in 1984 Memorial Cup" at the end of Round 3 looks like this:

22 Hamilton
19 Rosberg
12 Vettel
7 Raikkonen
5 Riccardo
3 Massa
3 Bottas
3 Kyvat
2 Nasr

The Constructor's Championship is thus:

41 Mercedes
19 Ferrari
7 Red Bull
6 Williams
2 Sauber

I don't care how good you claim to be McLaren. The fact is that under the old scoring system, even Minardi managed to pick up points occasionally. You've not done that this year.

[Warriwa]

I'm still irritated that this was the first race broadcast live since Australia.

[AAReagles]

I won't ever pay to watch a modern F1 race. F1 is supposed to be about engines being pushed to the point of destruction...

Well now it's the fans being pushed to the point of destruction, so to speak. And no, I have not, nor will I ever pay to watch the current product either.

I discovered that the price of satillite itself is not worth the admission to 6-8 minute segments of commercial features during a program. Not to mention all the useless channels included in the package.

So long F1, I hardly knew ye.

[steveaki13]

I think in simple terms F1 needs to be allowed to become a proper motorsport again. Not a green demonstration of how road cars could work.

[journeyman racer]

Well. As someone who's not paying for foxtel, but has easy access to it. Foxtel has the Sky commentry That was the first race I saw from the BBC commentary on C10. I was thinking of heading out to watch the race, despite it being screened at home, but couldn't be bothered.

Having watched the BBC broadcast. There is no question Ben Edwards is by far the superior commentator to David Croft. This discourages me from purchasing Foxtel, if it means Croft is the commentator. Brundle isn't that big a deal to listen to, and it was
refreshing for me to listen to Coulthard as expert commentator.

I think in simple terms F1 needs to be allowed to become a proper motorsport again. Not a green demonstration of how road cars could work.

That is proper motorsport though.

[Rollo]

"The John Logie Baird Television Was Better in 1984 Memorial Cup" at the end of Round 4 looks like this:

28 Hamilton
28 Rosberg
15 Vettel
7 Raikkonen
7 Massa
5 Riccardo
5 Bottas
3 Kyvat
2 Nasr
1 Hulkenburg


The Constructor's Championship is thus:

56 Mercedes
22 Ferrari
12 Williams
7 Red Bull
2 Sauber
1 Force India

[Rollo]

"The John Logie Baird Television Was Better in 1984 Memorial Cup" at the end of Round 5 at Spa looks like this:

37 Hamilton
34 Rosberg
15 Vettel
8 Massa
7 Raikkonen
6 Kyvat
5 Riccardo
5 Bottas
4 Grosjean
2 Perez
2 Nasr
1 Hulkenburg

The Constructor's Championship is thus:

71 Mercedes
22 Ferrari
13 Williams
10 Red Bull
4 Lotus
3 Force India
2 Sauber

I also have to say that I might have gone to watch the V8Supercars race at Eastern Creek this weekend had I known it was on. Eastern Creek is less than 5 miles from my house.
The first that I heard about it was the hour highlight at 08:30pm, some three hours after everyone had already shut up shop.

[Rollo]

"The John Logie Baird Television Was Better in 1984 Memorial Cup" at the end of Round 5 at Spa looks like this:

37 Hamilton
37 Rosberg
24 Vettel
8 Massa
11 Riccardo
11 Raikkonen
7 Kyvat
7 Bottas
4 Grosjean
2 Perez
2 Nasr
1 Hulkenburg

The Constructor's Championship is thus:

74 Mercedes
35 Ferrari
17 Red Bull
15 Williams
4 Lotus
3 Force India
2 Sauber

[Rollo]

"The John Logie Baird Television Was Better in 1984 Memorial Cup" at the end of Round 8 in Mexico looks like this:

52 Hamilton
46 Rosberg
30 Vettel
13 Bottas
13 Ricciardo
12 Kyvat
12 Massa
11 Raikkonen
6 Perez
4 Grosjean
3 Nasr
1 Hulkenburg

The Constructor's Championship is thus:

98 Mercedes
41 Ferrari
25 Red Bull
23 Williams
7 Force India
4 Lotus
3 Sauber

Mexico is worse than Brazil for some odd reason. Mexico starts at 06:00am AEST which means that I only get to see the first 30 minuted before I jump a rattler and go off to work.