Bubba gets it , Bernie doesn't .

Each type of racing has its own plusses and minuses. F1 is not fan friendly and often boring to watch, but a few good races a year make it worthwhile. NASCAR is all about crashes and smashes and that's fine, but it's not exactly high-tech.

I find myself being drawn toward the ALMS series more and more. I enjoy the action all over the track and the strategies that come into play when P1 & P2 cars have to deal with GT1 & GT2 cars while racing in their own class. If I tape an F1 race I usually watch it once. I can watch an ALMS race several times and not get bored.

With F1, the best video is the 2 hour highlights that are released at the end of the season - it cuts out all the boring processions.

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Originally Posted by markabilly

weeelll Seems to prove what the original post was all about----seems f1 is becoming a tv only package.....

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Fortunately I don't have to worry about silly thing like proofs or backed up arguments, those are for people who were in their high school debate club, I'm here to have a chat with friends ands people i know over the interweb. ;)
F1 is and quite frankly should be focused on tv viewers over spectators, 350 million viewers confirm that every race weekend.

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and i don't watch it live, but tape it---save me mucho time, fast forward the commercials and most of the boring race.................leaves me to watch over and over Fa passing LH or LH passing kimi and even with that saves me a solid hour or so....and then there is the super dry boring post race interveiws of peter windsor with the boys all sitting there like they are some scientists discussing some archelogical dig at some dead and buried city like Troy and what the pottery looks like and its effect on Greek pottery......" when did you think you had the race won??" Kimi: "when I won the pole, and did not break down during the race...."

"What was the deciding point for the race? (answer by anyone else except winner) When I did not win pole, and driver x did, and then did not break during the race....."

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I can't stand taped races, if it's happened already i have to know the result as soon as I can.

NASCAR is more deliberately a spectacle but F1 is more about the race and the competitors although decisions are increasingly being made for the benefit of spectators. I want to see a true sport well presented not something that's been manipulated to appeal to me more. Yes investigate ways to improve overtaking and make races more unpredictable but not to the extent where it becomes meaningless but don't bend the rules to appeal to the public.

My response to this thread didn'tgo through for some reason...and now I am bored to type it again...

Just like I am bored to hear/talk about Nascar and Craftsmen or whatever crap roundy stuff that comes on TV every week.

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Originally Posted by Bagwan

, it's largely during cautions that they show commercials in the Truck series , at least .
Certainly , that works well because there are many , but the point is to maximize the actual race coverage , and the fans appreciate it .

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Sorry to re quote this, but watched latter part of the race on Speed channel(don't ask why ;) )
It was truly horrible, ads seemed to be shown every ten minutes where as Finnish broadcast has easily twenty minutes of gap between them and are shorter, I can't for the life of me understand how people can follow such horrible F1 coverage. :(

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Originally Posted by janneppi

Sorry to re quote this, but watched latter part of the race on Speed channel(don't ask why ;) )
It was truly horrible, ads seemed to be shown every ten minutes where as Finnish broadcast has easily twenty minutes of gap between them and are shorter, I can't for the life of me understand how people can follow such horrible F1 coverage. :(

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I told you it ain't all that noticeable or bad when you tape it :D

If you want to know what happened, just check in about the last ten minutes of the race, then rewind the tape and watch it as you see fit

After all it is all all about TV now......