Groups

How to bring back the casual viewer- Video game style! (20 posts)

Viewing post 1 to 15 (20 total posts)

1 2 →

matt90 said 1 year, 10 months ago:

F1 has recently been obsessed with attracting the elusive ‘casual viewer.’ This is often sited as part of the reason for the following developments:

KERS- a little boost button, much like NOS in games like Need for Speed.
DRS- a form of boost that you would find in racing games, where the cars at the back are able to lap faster. Like in some online races.

But the problem is, whether these work or not, they will no longer do the job. With F1 switching its UK coverage to sky for half the year, its going to take some pretty big video games style gizmos to get back those casual fans that we thought F1 loved so much.

So what slightly nonsensical video games related suggestions do you have to improve the show and snare back those viewers who will be turning off?

My first one is extra lifes- 2 spare cars would allow drivers who retire in a race or qualifying to sprint back to the pits and get in their spare car, thus giving them an extra life (ignore that this used to happen anyway).

#
Deleted User said 1 year, 10 months ago:

Bananas. Mario Kart Style. That is all ;)

#
Magnificent Geoffrey said 1 year, 10 months ago:

Flashbacks – the ability to turn back time when you mess up.

#
Bradley Downton said 1 year, 10 months ago:

Blue Shells – To eliminate the leader *Cough* Vettel *Cough*

#
matt90 said 1 year, 10 months ago:

Perhaps an embargo on mariocart weaponry lol

#
TrueF1Grit said 1 year, 10 months ago:

Perhaps by changing broadcaster to a channel where more casual viewers will watch…. oh.

#
vinicius.jlantunes said 1 year, 10 months ago:

Do you guys remember Rock’n Roll racing? So maybe adding missiles and mine planting devices to cars would “improve the show”!

#
vinicius.jlantunes said 1 year, 10 months ago:

In case you don’t remember that game:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_n'_Roll_Racing

#
matt90 said 1 year, 10 months ago:

I think to spice things up and give the race engineers a more important role, at a random point in race for a single lap control would be give to the race engineers, sitting in the back of the garage in a simulator.

#
Fixy said 1 year, 10 months ago:

It’s easy: a competition between the viewers to win a race drive at HRT for the season finale. A trivia question is asked half-way through the race every race, and between the people that answer correctly, three are chosen to win a paddock experience at their home country’s gp the following year, and between those three winners per race one is chosen to drive the second HRT at the season finale.

#
Icthyes said 1 year, 10 months ago:

Turbo boost pads like in Wipeout, Wipeout 2097 and Wip3out (lol wut), only thing is you might understeer into a wall so use it wisely!

#
matt90 said 1 year, 10 months ago:

Loving the ideas.

I also like a lap knock-out idea. Each wheel on each car is fitted with a tiny explosive, just large enough to blow the tyre. In a 70 lap race, every 3 laps or so the driver who is last is ‘eliminated.’ This means that at ANY random point on the next lap, any one of the tyres will be blown. Excitement and tension in spades.

The actual lap when somebody is decided as being eliminated will vary- for instance, in a 60 lap race it could be that on laps 34 and 35 somebody is eliminated, but this will likely mean a longer gap till the next elimination.

#
Skett said 1 year, 10 months ago:

Haha, this post is hilarious!
How about a need for speed style race where half way through a police car joins the track and tries to take people out!

Or maybe just do something totally stupid. How about every time they pit having to get out of the car and sit in a desk chair situated in each pit. Then they have to be spun around 20 times before getting back in the car!

#
Stephen Jones said 1 year, 10 months ago:

the “accidental controller unplug’

at random intervals during the race the steering wheels will detach, causing the drivers to scramble to plug it back in before they end up in a tyre barrier

#
Icthyes said 1 year, 10 months ago:

The “Gran Turismo n00b rule”. Anyone who isn’t winning gets to upgrade their car with a better engine.

#