Comments on: “Achtung Glock!” “Na última curva!” – How the world saw F1 title shock (video)

By: Lustigson

Lustigson — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:11:20 +0000

Boy, I just watched the Spanish video — the others were offline — and again had the excitement sent shivers down my spine. What a finale that was…

By: DG

DG — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:05:41 +0000

Amy – on the Pit Wall all the teams have access to the same information about where the cars are on the circuit, this helps them work out when to bring the cars into the Pits and when to send them out again. ITV have talked about it – and the FOM broadcast includes a mini version of it.
Unlike in the old days, its now fairly easy for the teams to tell their drivers who is in front and by how much, and probably which tyres they have too. Not just McLaren.

By: Redslive

Redslive — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:21:23 +0000

Crazy race with big stupid win by Hamilton. Next year show him who is he. Massa was really better in this season.

By: Fittipaldi

Fittipaldi — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:13:19 +0000

Less ashame men. If you don’t know, one of the commentators from TV5 (private TV on Spain) is PEDRO DE LA ROSA. The well known Mclaren test driver. Please don’t take out of context the words. As you can see in this video at the end is de la Rosa, and also there are people working on that tv who likes Hamilton.
http://mitele.telecinco.es/informativos/formula/51684.shtml

By: DanielPT

DanielPT — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:28:32 +0000

@Ricardo Rocha: Didn’t see your video to be able to say if its a belgium or a french video but since i saw the race live on TF1 last sunday, i can assure that the french commentators also missed Hamilton and Vettel passing glock…

By: ukk

ukk — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:24:19 +0000

Actually the Spanish commentators cheered Hamilton as world champion and really enjoyed the spectacle!

What was strange to me was what Kubica did – he did not really need to unlap himself, he was long way off the points either way … but it does not matter anymore

By: v8

v8 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:01:24 +0000

oops sorry this is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOGFNENPrtQ&feature=related

By: v8

v8 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:48:54 +0000

this is the funniest thing i have ever seen.

but i guess this is exactly what i was doing when i thought hamilton was loosing. i got a kind of sadistic pleasure watching this. hahahaha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IuEonD3wu0

By: mail123456

mail123456 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:47:00 +0000

Our Bulgarian commentators are usually “somewhere else” or “lap down” when something happens on track BUT on this final lap mr. Manchev was just in place to see Glock’s Toyota This time nice work

By: Gman

Gman — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:04:42 +0000

In terms of boradcast coverage, here in the United States I was very pleased with the SPEED coverage by Bob Varsha, David Hobbs, Steve Matchett, and Peter Windsor. The group kept me on the edge of my seat and made sure not to call it all over until Hamilton had crossed the line. Regarding Glock, the description used at the finish by the SPEED boys was that he had “given up the position”- I took this to mean he had slowed down on purpose, but I doubt this was the case, and the group made no further mention of it.

Overall, a great job all season by a very good group of broadcasters. My only disappointment is that we can’t see them broadcast live from our “home” GP in 2009.