Ray wrote:Actually donskar, they do the broadcast from Charlotte. Hobbo is a great opposite to Matchett. I think he's funny as hell, and he's got a great sense of humor and I think it would be worse off without him. I'm assuming you mean Varsha is 'the Other Guy'. He's been commentating on Speed for nearly 10 years and worked in that capacity covering F1 for other stations for year before that. You can see him braodcasting when Senna was killed 15 years ago. How long does he have to be involved before he's credible? It's not their fault Speed is too cheap to send them to the races. Peter 'Hamilton' doesn't even work for Speed directly. If they'd get rid of that idiot, Speeds' coverage would improve about a billion percent. He's as bad as James Allen. Both are slobbering idiots when Hamilton is on screen or they get a chance to talk about him.donskar wrote:A big cast of (some) qualified people.
Unlike SPEED TV's pathetic effort: three guys sitting in a room in Connecticut USA, watching the race on TV and trying their best to add something of value.
Matchett is fine, but "Dyvid 'Obbs" is far from contemporary in the know, and the Other Guy is just a professional voice.
And for this I get up at 6 AM!
Are you kidding? Windsor looked like a little girl that has to pee really bad whenever he talked to/about Hamilton in 2007. The man/boy love was actually a bit apalling, and I switched to ITV coverage just to get away from Windsor!captainmorgan wrote:Ray wrote:Actually donskar, they do the broadcast from Charlotte. Hobbo is a great opposite to Matchett. I think he's funny as hell, and he's got a great sense of humor and I think it would be worse off without him. I'm assuming you mean Varsha is 'the Other Guy'. He's been commentating on Speed for nearly 10 years and worked in that capacity covering F1 for other stations for year before that. You can see him braodcasting when Senna was killed 15 years ago. How long does he have to be involved before he's credible? It's not their fault Speed is too cheap to send them to the races. Peter 'Hamilton' doesn't even work for Speed directly. If they'd get rid of that idiot, Speeds' coverage would improve about a billion percent. He's as bad as James Allen. Both are slobbering idiots when Hamilton is on screen or they get a chance to talk about him.donskar wrote:A big cast of (some) qualified people.
Unlike SPEED TV's pathetic effort: three guys sitting in a room in Connecticut USA, watching the race on TV and trying their best to add something of value.
Matchett is fine, but "Dyvid 'Obbs" is far from contemporary in the know, and the Other Guy is just a professional voice.
And for this I get up at 6 AM!
I don't remember Peter Windsor shilling for Hamilton, he wasn't anywhere near as badly knee-worn as James Allen was. Is there another Peter you're talking about?
David Hobbs has a racing background, but he has all the charm of a right-wing morning radio talk show host. He makes SpeedTV look bush league compared to ITV even at its Hamilton heyday
I wish I could get RAI. You just reminded me of the days when I was younger. Now, here in the States I can't get that. But I also think Speed is better than ITV. By a lot if you ask me.NDR008 wrote:To be fair, so far my favourite coverage of F1 (including pre-race) has been the Italian's Rai coverage - they get technical, CFD/CAD models, technical explanations etc.
Obviously every coverage will have some bias of pro and against one driver or another.
I think ITV dumbed down F1 too much, and made too many mistakes in their commentry.
Personally, between ITV and SpeedTV - I preferred Speed's. Sure they have a bit of the silly American over-drama to it, but they spoke to people, got the dirty info, and technical replays explaining what contrevarsies were all about - while ITV just presented things as 'Hamilton is good because...' or the 'The world is a bitch because McLaren/Hamilton have had this ..........injustice done to them'. I mean even Kov was barely mentioned on ITV, it was Hamilton, and what Massa did to Hamilton. I am all for patriotism, but ITV some times got to carried away.
