[Brian]

Kieth, Yes you are right, the commentators don’t work for F1, they work for the respective TV channel and therefore can only commentate on what is being shown to the viewer, it is their job to keep viewers on board for both parties. With regards to other sports I think a lot of believing the hype depends on how interested or how much knowledge the viewer has in that particular sport.
I personally find the likes of Rugby a fast, physical game that never needs to be hyped, but soccer is a different case, I find it difficult to watch soccer immediately after rugby because of what I just said. If the commentator is gifted with making something dull and boring sound exciting well he or she is worth their salary.

We have lost so many good F! venues over the last few years, I am not sure the new breed of track design is good for the sport, and that makes a commentators job difficult. For me, all these new brightly colored run off areas can distract the viewer, but then we have what we have and maybe Liberty can redress the issues around the lost “Driver” circuits.

[Brian]

Lets be honest here, Sochi was a bore of a race, all the action in the last 5 mins, so boring was the race we had more replays of the odd front wheel lock up, this sport is still not engaging with the fans and the commentators have to get excited and hype up the most simple of things, just to stop the viewers dosing off, also the TV coverage never looked at the close Ocon/Hulkenberg race. If it had then the commentators could have something genuine to commentate on.

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