[Morpheus]

I received my tickets 2 days ago too and started investigating where to live and how to get to the track. Ended up putting a map with a all locations together, which you can find here: http://rso.lv/hungarian-gp

During my investigation I also stumbled upon a few links, which I found useful. I’ll list them here in case anyone else wants to find out a bit more about travelling (hope Keith doesn’t mind):
http://www.hungaroring.hu/?id=1&sub_id=3&lang=en
http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/hungary_903/destination_guide.html
http://visitbudapest.travel/budapest-events/formula-1-hungarian-grand-prix/
http://www.budapest-tourist-guide.com/f1-hungarian-grand-prix.html
http://joeblogsonf1.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/f1-travel-advice-getting-to-hungarian-grand-prix/
All these links are also in the description of the map.

That’s it for now. Off to book flights and hotels! Hope it’s not too late…

[Morpheus]

To be honest, I don’t understand why people are getting worked up over the adverts. They have adverts on all of their other channels including the other Sky Sports channels, I’m not sure why they’d have adverts on all of those channels but not the F1 channel. The adverts don’t come on that often, they’re not mis-timed, they’re not very long and they don’t come on during qualifying or the race. I don’t see why people want to complain about that. It’s as if you’ve never seen adverts on any other channels.

Maybe because I subscribed to Sky this year because they said “uninterrupted coverage”. And what happens when I start watching the first practice? Interruptions every freaking 5-10 minutes. Yes, I timed some breaks and there were times when these was an ad break 5 minutes after the previous one.

Also, I am already paying £11.50 or so for the TV license and then £30.25 more for the Sky itself. I think I deserve to not have any ads all the time. The “uninterrupted qualifying and races” is pretty misleading too because as soon as the timer gets to 0:00 we get an ad break. And after the ad break they think it’s necessary to tell us about all the ways to watch it.

Otherwise the coverage is pretty good. I still want to see what it will be like a few races in but for now it feels a bit artificial to me. The Sky pad is an interesting idea but it feels like they just put it in as an afterthought, to have some cool gadgets. The presenting is good too imo. Simon is pretty quiet/reserved but so is Jake and we need to guy some break. It’s his first F1 race presentation ever and I think he’s doing a good job. Crofty could calm down though, even my mother said he sounded like the end of the world was coming while he was shouting about some overtakes.

So, overall, 7/10 for me. Can’t fault it too much but still a lot to do. If Sky continues to show those annoying interruptions every 10 minutes, I’ll be watching those 10 races on BBC. Otherwise, I have no choice.

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