Jhex

YES!!!! that's how it's done!

I didn't need another reason to not vote PQ but here we are...

you know Monaco is bad when the there isn't enough to show to get a 10 min vid

Well there’s not much anyone can do about that. The FIA is it’s own thing, they concern themselves with running the race in a safe manner and with adherence to the rules by all parties. They don’t go out of their way to inform the media about what they are doing or why.

What does that have to do with anything? For almost every other major sport, commentators are either on site and/or have a team with them which informs them of additional detail and info as the game takes place. Nobody at NHL headquarters said "hey let's make extra provisions to make sure TSN commentators get an inside track". That happens because the teams prepare to cover the games does a better job.

For F1 is like having an expert buddy come for a visit to watch the race with you, they only know and react to what you see on the main broadcast. There is little value to that after a few years watching when you basically already know what they are going to say about it and they have no additional value/info to offer

There is a data channel where things like yellow flags pop-up right away. That’s also what the graphics on screen are based off. As well as the driver tracker that might show someone as being stationary. So everyone knows about the flag right away, but the reasons might only be known to the marshal that called the flag at that specific location.

Well they may not bother checking because they RARELY say who/what caused a yellow flag until shown on the broadcast. This is specially frustrating for the quick spins where the yellow flag lasts only a few seconds. To boot, the broadcast is getting worse and worse (this year it has been abysmal) so sometimes it takes 10 mins before they actually show what happened "back then"

As for F1TV they also have a whole team. They have people listening in to the radio calls, monitoring driver cams, looking at the data and analyzing stuff. They also have boots on the ground doing driver interviews and talking to liaisons in the teams and with the FIA. They are finding out stuff as fast as possible.

Well, they do not seem to feed that info back to the commentators AT ALL. For example, in yesterday's race during the red flag, commentators said it could be a Safety Car rolling start OR a stationary start, it was up to the officials to determine... and we all found out what it was when we saw it happening. It does not seem anyone in the reporting team knew what the decision was even though it must have been known a few mins before it happened at the very least

It can get annoying during a red flag where the FIA isn’t forthcoming with what they are doing. But they are focused on making sure everything is in order and getting shit done. So I can understand talking to the press is a low priority at that point. And a group of workers inspecting the road or a barrier often tells us enough about what’s going on.

Again, I am NOT talking about the FIA issuing a report to the press, that never happens in any sport in real time.

I am saying that if there is a crash they don't show right away (which makes sense and I know why they do this), I would expect the commentators to say something like "we have a collision between Speed Racer and Driver X, waiting on details" even if it's not shown on the broadcast. Instead we get a "there must be some collision to cause this red flag".

In Hockey for example, a sport where a ton of stuff happens in the blink of an eye, commentators will say "that's a high sticking from X on y" even though we could not see it on TV, we just see some collision between players and the whistle to stop the game. Sure, sometimes it takes a few mins for the replay to show us that but the commentators are well placed (and seem to have bionic eyes) to see what happened and tell us in advance

The official "international" feed from f1 tv

They are knowledgeable but they have the same information we do so when a yellow flag shows up (for example) they seem to have no clue as to what cause it until the tv director decides to show it 5 mins later… so they find out at the same time we do

the official "international" feed from f1 tv

and that is the sound of Argentina being flushed down the toilet

as expected… all you did was find something to pin on my country in a childish attempt to dilute your country's guilt

congrats…

so boring… we were actually not going to watch the race but other plans fell through so we slept in front of the tv

also, I HATE the commentators are just watching the race with us with basically zero inside knowledge of what's happening. Every other professional sports provides comentator with additional info or at the very least gives them a priviledged viewing position so they can fill in the blanks for us… but F1 (specially this year) has terrible tv direction and the comentators are just as lost as we are

lol I'm from Canada… we stopped going to your country, stopped buying anything you make and bush our shitty politicians to stop paying attention to your pedophile in chief

Canada has reacted and pressured the USA economically harder than you with your weekend protests

Get off your ass and do something that matters while you still can… you are NOT the victim here

subtitled… I want the voice acting the creators intended

I just double checked mine is cut off… it was