agree simmi, imo Paul king was better no? certainly beats neil cole showing Petter how to make soup eh? needs mot footage down the field, petter, henning etc
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agree simmi, imo Paul king was better no? certainly beats neil cole showing Petter how to make soup eh? needs mot footage down the field, petter, henning etc
They left Andersson out of the end-of-day top 10.
No Paul King histeronics, but the commentator didn't sound all that interested to be honest.
I was surpised they didn't show the other classes (sWRC, jWRC) given that the programme is that long.
Good to see a few more interviews than normal but in general the programme as a bit boring (too long maybe?)
I don't really like onboards from the current World Rally Cars. They are nice on the fast sections but in the twisty bits they just nod and twitch everywhere.
I'd just like to congratulate MotorsTV on making the worst rally coverage I have ever seen. That physically hurt me to watch. An hour where the main camera angle used was a reverse onboard shot showing the driver. Onboards are a terrible idea but when you couple that with the shocking camera placement and quality you are just left with a pathetic mess. They barely showed any exterior shots. They barely showed any of the field. They had double the airtime but actually managed to show less of the drivers. It took them 35mins to show any footage of Petter for example. Gronholm featured twice in the hour. Zero mention of the SWRC.
The editing has got worse than before. That was an incredibly difficult thing to achieve but somehow they managed it. The commentary was unclear and fairly uninformative. It was difficult to even work out what was going on at times. Very messy in all areas. The decision-making was terrible.
So in summary it missed the point so badly it's untrue. As an intro to the season it was pathetic. It left me in utter disbelief. To take some of the worst monotonous coverage in all of sports and then make it TWICE as bad is really some feat. Motors has one legit programme on its books and it seems intent on sucking the life, drama and story out of it. Unbelievable.
I have to agree with simmi, it wasn't good. Henning wasn't even mentioned, as well as the other classes and the commentator was really boring to listen too, barely any shots of the cars from outside...
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Agree 100%.
The worst rally coverage I have seen. Just pathetic
What the heck is wrong with this commentator!?
He stutters, misses words then pauses and has to think. About as enjoyable as listening to a cat stuck in a food blender.
Most disappointing if I have to listen to this utter dribble for the whole championship!
WE DEMAND A NEW COMMENTATOR!
Watching the first 7 minutes of the new WRC on Motors TV, change the logo to transparent guys! Why do they need a camera man, jumping around and running when the cars are parked at the beginning of the stage?! Should he be IN the stage rather then just having ONE guy on ONE corner? And fair enough always good to have one at the end of the stage....
A bit too long with Loeb at the end of the stage when he was driving to stop, we don't need to see that, just cut to the interview. Easy.
Helicopter would be good to see more of.... but still only 7mins into the 47 mins of the show...
Commentator.... UGH
Come on! Get the guy from the IRC last year who was making it all up on the spot when it was LIVE! not this young guy who can't even talk properly!
What absolute e that programme was last night!! The new low in WRC broadcasts. Lets hope NOS come on this forum, and have media type meetings next week and put it right.
In car camera angles were pathetic, who wants to see the rear door / rear wing view of a rallycar? Too much camera on the crew's faces shots (that would have been OK for Ramona and Miraiam). Commentator was useless. I got the impression it was even more 4 works drivers, plus Kimi. We got coverage of Matt W, but not the second nominated Stobart driver. Token coverage of Marcus. When you think about the massive effort Petter made to raise sponsors, and Henning for that matter, they got minimal in Petter's case, and I suspect because of the incident with Matt, and nothing of Henning. The absolute injustice was not even a mention, let alone coverage of drive of the day PG!
If Kris Nissen and the VW board were watching, I suspect they will sanction a new Dakar car, and if Monte organisers and IRC wwere watching I guess they were laughing all the way.
IRC will be laughing for the rest of the year with Joy!
Have to say it was pretty bad. The on-boards from the rear of the car were very difficult to watch. The commentary was very bitty - odd pauses, stopped in mid sentence etc...
The main thing I noticed was that the picture quality is very poor. I have been used to watching it on Eurosport HD (which I got specially for the rallying :( ) which has been great so this is a real down turn.
For a sport trying to raise it's profile this seems to be a backward step and the presentation makes the sport look amateur.
However, on the up side there are plenty of viewings of the coverage repeated throughout the day and so far it has been on time....