F1 Fanatic

Indeed, so to watch all of the practice, Quali and Race, It’s going to cost me £30.00 a race x 19 races is £570.00!! might as well go and get the SKYHD pack now and also benefit from receiving those other channels that you speak of all year round!

But why would you pay for the pass for all 20 Races? for a start, 9 of them are on the BBC!

Looking at it anohter way, fi you elect to ONLY watch the race (Not ideal, I know, but its an option) then you’ve got 9 payments of £9.99 remaining – £89.1 for the remainder of the year. If you look at it that way, it isn’t a bad deal.

But the point is, you have that option. You can’t really go on about the high cost of using this pass for every race weekend when you refuse to use the free alternative.

I find it very odd how Sky don’t want to show us the full video of the post race press conferences, even today when it was a key moment, they only showed a v. short clip. I know as a fact that many other broadcasters still show it (even Sky Germany), it’s transmitted as part of the world feed. I know why they normally wouldn’t want to show it, given that the drivers usually say the same sorta stuff in the podium interviews, but even still for key one’s like today, you’d think they would have posted the video on the website, yet they’ve only given us the FIA transcript. I’m pretty sure there must be contractual reasons why they can’t show the full conference in-vision, perhaps they’ve lost that ability in exchange for messing about with the world feed during practice?

GT_racer, maybe you could comment as you know more about these things than we do?

I should point out that this only started as soon as the Podium interviews came in at Silverstone in 2012, before then you’d get shown the 1st part of the press conference. This is how the post-race press conference is structured:
Part 1: Questions from the moderator, in English
Part 2: Statement in the Driver’s own language (if non-English)
Part 3: Questions from the media on the floor.

Now before Silverstone 2012, ITV, the BBC (and Sky) would always show Part 1 of the press conference. Yet not the BBC or Sky in the UK do it now, it’s odd. Maybe it’s a contractual thing for UK broadcasters.

@john-bergqvist Of the few criticisms I have towards Sky’s F1 coverage, a lack of the post-race conference is one of them. I don’t think they include it anymore because, as you say, it is more-or-less a repeat of what is said on the podium (minus “the fans are great”, “we love this country”, “can’t wait to come next year” blah blah blah). Although, in the case of this week, the more Vettel-Webber moments we get, the better.

Sky devote a whole 40-minute programme to showing the Thursday press conference, and I definitely remember seeing it after qualifying, so I can only assume they don’t consider showing the race one necessary.