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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: psy on March 15, 2012, 03:26:36 PM
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The new season of the F1 starts this weekend in Australia. Does anyone else follow it? Who do you like or hate? Who are you tipping for the top?
I'd really like to to see Jenson Button come out on top this year, though I do think Sebastian Vettle is going to be a hard man to beat.
Bit of an outside hope... but I'd love to see Schumacher finish a grand prix on the podium at least once this season. :-)
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Been the only other sport from boxing I've had passion for all my life... NO MORE.
I've kicked myself for not giving up sooner.
Classic European circuits abandoned for Middle East dust bowl boredom with tame corners yet massive sponsor hospitality lounges and no fans.
Mute corporate drivers with no passion having digital recorders pushed in their face by the team to monitor any communication so to ensure NOTHING controversial is being said.
Bernie and his strangle hold CVC rights holder partners lies to squeeze every cent out of the sport.
F**K THEM ALL
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I used to be be a big fan.
I'll watch it again when murdock drops dead :?
Ruined......
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I've loved F1 since I was a kid. I remember James Hunt, Senna, Lauda, Mansell, the black and gold JPS Lotus cars, the days when it was a truly dangerous sport filled with passionate fans watching great sporting action at classic tracks. And now ... it's pay drivers and corporate sponsors, tedious Hermann Tilke circuits and borefests like Valencia. Even the commentators prattle on about how F1 is "important for international business". If I wanted to see that then I'd attend meetings of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Balls to F1, it's been ruined.
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Never as big a fan as you guys, but I've always watched it.
Lost interest a bit during the Schumacher years, and also during that period when ITV had the rights (I do hate adverts!). Been watching it again the last few years back on the BBC (although it is still pretty boring) but now they're sharing with bloody Sky so.... I can't be bothered.
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Got to say the final straw for me was when Barrichello was dropped in favour of a pay driver. The most experienced F1 driver of all time - and one of the few people in the sport with any personality - shunted off to IndyCar because he no longer made financial sense.
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There are not enough bad boys any more. Drink, knob some model whilst off your tits on coke then turn up after no sleep and still drive a grad prix the following day. Now that's sport!
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Guess you didn't hear Raikonnen's back then?
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I did, but one amongst the other corporate pleasing wishy washy tw@ts is not going to save it.
However I did hear a story about jenson and his dad spit roasting someone...
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here is something to cheer you up then
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB25004EA40716A0F (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB25004EA40716A0F)
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Love F1, loath Murdoch and won't give him a penny so shan't be bothering this year. It's bad enough that Bernie is still pulling the strings, but this last thing he pulled is a joke. Shame. It'll go the way of boxing I predict, another sport I used to love. Can't remember the last bout I watched it's that long ago now.
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The Legend...
http://www.youtube.com/user/universalpicturesuk?v=QOQLeqRcgKc
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Formula 1 is the only sport I watch- correction watched. I don't have and won't buy Sky and I don't like highlights so I decided, when they made the announcement last year, that I would give up. Great pity because I have been a fan since being a child and a mate of mine is a former racing driver ( though not famous) and he used to give me a lot of insight into the sport. So another little avenue of pleasure gone. Sadly I fear that the BBC/Sky episode will mean the decline of F1 in the UK. I don't know what the take up rate is for Sky sports F1 and I suspect the BBC audience will plummet and the scr@ps we have left will go too. Mrs 38th is highly delighted as it means she will not be an F1 widow anymore. I shall try to keep up with the press reports. Friends have suggested watching streams online. I have heard that RTL will stream but I have also heard that they run adverts throughout the race.
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i liked formula one in those days.. haven't seen a race in years.
it was sh!t on ITV. i'm sure BBC improved things when it went back there, i noticed Eddie Jordan was a pundit, it looked like good coverage.
too bad about the Sky story :(
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I'm not much of an F1 fan nowadays. I think the last season I watched all of was 1994.
Should be a bit more fun with Raikonnen back although like many others I have cancelled Sky Sports.
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I was a bit gutted when the BBC seemed to have given up keeping hold of the coverage rights (probably spent too much for the Olympics no doubt). I thought that would be the end of my F1 viewing as I refuse to shell out for Sky Sports when its the only sport I watch. Sky has very wisely offered the F1 channel as part of the regular HD package, so I'm a happy chappy. :)
Raikonnen should help spice things up a bit. Di Resta had a pretty good rookie season, so I'm keen to see if he can build on that.
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I can take it or leave it myself but my Girlfriend has been a fan of it all her life.
She's royally p*!$ed off about it going mainly to Sky though and the BBC only having the cr@p races.
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Used to watch it every sunday... a ritual, really a great time with my father and brothers...!!
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Big F1 fan, not so happy about Sky taking over, but a colleague of mine has just bought the package so that we can watch it... will miss the opener as i'm out of the country on work :(
Think that it could be an interesting season... am rooting for Caterham at the back, and Lotus at the front (think they've got a fair chance this year, now that it seems Ferrari aren't quite as hot). And always a big fan of Kobayashi!
It's a shame that it's moving away more and more from the driving itself to the sponsorship and the celebrity of it all, but i'll continue to follow it as I enjoy the sport.
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dunno if I'm upset or not. I've been drifting away from it for a few years now. I'll see whether I watch much of it this year, but somehow I doubt I will.