Comments on: FOTA’s F1 fans survey results in full

By: wasiF1

wasiF1 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:54:27 +0000

Yeah,who said that?I didn’t find that on the survey?

By: wasiF1

wasiF1 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:53:30 +0000

Only 8,500 F1 fans??It that all the people who think about the sports?

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:32:51 +0000

Reverse grids are not only stupid but carnage waiting to happen when the slower guys at the front hit the brakes earlier than the faster guys coming from behind. Happened a few times in V8 Supercars here in Australia.

Once the chaos of the race start is over, I’d love for there to be a complete lap from onboard cameras without any commentary, just the sound of the car, seeing the driver working it around.

By: Gman

Gman — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:44:03 +0000

Exactly me feelings. With only 17 countries, how on Earth do they expect to get anywhere close to a good sample of opinions from a sport that is described as the “World Championship”? A 5-year old could make an electronic survey and distribute it to probably..or, lets say..150 or mroe countires, so no excuse for FOTA not to expand their survey demographics.

By: DGR-F1

DGR-F1 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:04:36 +0000

Reverse grids are really only any good if you are doing two or three short races in one day – as the British Touring cars do. And even then they have had to make it a completely random reverse, from between 6th and 8th on the grid, otherwise the cleverer drivers can always position themselves to be on pole. And of course Touring Cars are using success ballast as well, so there isn’t always an advantage to getting pole….
I wonder why FOTA didn’t pick up on the fans wanting to see the traditional venues? Are they worried it would upset Bernie’s scheming?
Also, I do agree more should be done to make the cars LOOK fast during the race, using kerbside cameras, better angles, more noise, less commentating, and a lot less ‘Ted Kravitz’ style obvious questions…..

By: Lustigson

Lustigson — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:49:45 +0000

> Actually their question if more people would watch
> “much shorter” races gets a rather positive result.
> A 0.3 on a -1 to 1 scale.
I believe that is due to the fact that many of us would still watch the races, regardless of whether they were shorter or not.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:04:47 +0000

I definitely want to see more more on-board cameras on the cars and interactive television coverage, and I wouldn’t mind if the commentators shut up once in a while, and I definitely want to see more overtaking. But I do NOT want to see reverse grids. That’s just stupid.

By: patrickl

patrickl — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:01:59 +0000

Who says that F1 wants to try reversed grids?

By: Pink Peril

Pink Peril — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:48:23 +0000

Reverse grids were trialled in V8 supercars, and dropped very quickly and quietly.

If someone else has tried something & it failed miserably, then why doesn’t F1 learn from those mistakes rather than trying to emulate them?

By: zerogee

zerogee — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:20:41 +0000

It’s a pretty meaningless survey. Where did they find these people? What’s the spread? Did they even really delve into any of the technology stuff when talking about the coverage.

I think it reinforces my view about the teams and FOM – they both think the same way because they haven’t the faintest idea about who’s watching.