2024 Formula 1 Season thread

[JustinePaula]

Can anyone explain why SKYF1 has to have adverts during the FP sessions? Long up to 10 minutes of adverts, we get the SKYF1 feed here, and sometimes, when it is a late night/early morning feed, sometimes the crew in the local broadcaster here, are dozing, and miss the switch, so we see the Idents, test pattern and where it is coming from.. Yet I have seen whole broadcasts where there is no adverts.. I know Sky comms team is the one feeding F1TV, so I assume F1Tv has no mid session wee breaks... Only SkyF1, and SkyF1 in the UK is stupid expensive add on to the SKY subs..

 

[cyb3rdud3]

My recollection may not be good, but we do have SkyQ at our home in the UK and I don't recall add breaks. ViaPlay (in the Netherlands) has too many study cuts, but I also don't recall add breaks. F1TV definitely has no add breaks.

PS AppleTV and a VPN provider is your friend for F1TV. We keep SkyQ for other reasons, but I've cancelled ViaPlay already.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

Splitting hairs a little here.

He was fired from his role, not the organization. He was removed as race director and offered another role within the FIA. He remained an FIA employee until he left in July. Additionally, the FIA found the handling of the safety car was indeed against the rules on 2 counts.

Additionally, Saudi Arabia was also against the rules as the grid was set using Masi offering Red Bull a deal to avoid giving Max a penalty - without involving the stewards.

The FIA is better off without Masi.

'SACKED' was the phasing used which we all know means 'fired', or as the FIA managed it, 'removed' him from his position and gave him a lesser role until he decided to leave the organisation. He brought the sport into disrepute as you say on 2 counts. The first count was not identifying ALL lapped cars and instructing them to unlap themselves, only a handful of cars actually recieved instruction, and the second count was calling the safety car in ONE lap early, both of which ignored the sporting regulations that he was required to follow in his senior role.

The Saudi Arabia negotiations were incredible, I have never heard a team being asked what they wanted to do in order to get a lesser punishment and it drew a lot of debate at the time. Masi was clearly intimidated by Horner and that should not happen when you're required and employed to be impartial.

Interesting that the poster who brought this back up randomly has taken no further part since being corrected too, and not for the first time.

 

[pachyderm]

I really truly hate the crap SkyF1 delivers, it is cringe cubed, it is the worst form of wasting time, and it goes on for hours, then there is the damn notebook, how many a weekend, pay 3 blokes to sit in a box in a studio in Manchester/Liverpool, Auckland..and commentate on what they see on the telly...

I agree the lead up to the race is way too long. I don't really care about seeing Brartin Mumble get snubbed on the tarmac over and over again. lol.

Glad the series is all over, Max is champ, well done, a great worthy villain, the only sad part is that 2 races are dead, have no value, maybe for constructors, but who cares.. About who gets more points, maybe every team gets the same number of US Dollars, and your ranking buys you so many more hours of wind tunnel time.. For example winner winner chicken dinner gets say 24 hours, 2nd 20 hours, and so on..

Well, I'm rooting for Sauber to get at least one point...

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

Well, I'm rooting for Sauber to get at least one point...

Yeah a pretty shocking season for them this year and to think how quickly they have slipped behind the like of Williams, Alpine and Haas who were fighting to get off the back of the grid not too long ago.

 

[sunapple]

The Rolls-Royce Phantom's rear doors close via a button in the B pillar. Maybe these were RR Ghosts (the lesser model based on the BMW 760) and those doors are manual.

These were Phantoms. Point was about opening the passenger door, that should always be the manual job of the driver with such a car 😋

Ghost does have electric doors that close with a button. Series II is now based on the Phantom platform and has a bespoke engine as well. Yes, I watch videos of cars I can't afford for no good reason.

I noticed that during the drive Max was looking around the car with a child-like fascination, including pointing out the button for the door, while Lewis used the roof mounted vanity mirror casually as if it was just another day at the office. That was funny to me.