F1 Fanatic

There’s a reason why I go to such silly lengths to find BBC streams online, and it’s not for Antiques Roadshow.

what kind of stuff can you get on the streams?

we’re lucky enough to get all the practice sessions etc. the qualy prog is around 2.5 hrs long, raceday coverage is around 4hrs plus an extra hour or so of the red button stuff after the main prog has finished.
apologies if the above reads as “my dad’s bigger than your dad”. it’s not meant to. i’m now curious as to what others do or don’t get access to.

it’s a far cry from when i was a kid (late 70′s) and the only stuff i saw of f1 was on world of sport with dickie davies 6 days after the gp. it *may* have been covered elsewhere, but that was all i got to see.

Another double post for posterity.

I get the feeling that the only real whole in the BBC coverage at the moment is Legard, an he’s going at the end of the year with any luck, so Come On the BBC.

Has to be posted, because it’s phenomenal (you’ll need a UK proxy to view):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/9035968.stm

This is what makes Jake a top presenter, and gives you an idea of what the rest of the team actually do. For those that can’t view it, it’s a 4-way splitscreen. 3 are the live cameras, one is the BBC/FOM video feed. Over it all is the editing team’s commentary and cuing. Unlike everyone else on the show, Jake’s earpiece doesn’t just relay what the director is telling him personally, it’s “open” – meaning he hears what’s for him, what’s for the cameramen, what’s being discussed with the edit suite, what’s for EJ and DC and the rest of the team. It’s almost impossible to watch, how he follows it all when he’s walking around a noisy pitlane talking to whoever he bumps into is beyond me.

People moan about the salaries of TV presenters – this man earns every bit of whatever he gets paid, as does everyone else on the team.