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DaveEllis Wrote:

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> Theres a 30min build up to the start of the
> football (kick off 7:45 i belive), and im sure ITV
> wont be stupid enough to miss out the last few
> laps of the race and then do the full 30min build
> up. Surely the build up will be cut into to finish
> the race
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>


I would think so, or retribution from fans and bernie would be swift

i watched the boxing last night on skysports 1 and it was scheduled for 10pm ( ricky hatton fight) and the programme before it was live speedway & it over ran by 10 mins, so the hatton fight had to wait until sky was ready

wonder if itv asked bernie to bring the race forward






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guys, the race starts at 5:30 UK time, so it should be well over by 7:15, it normally doesn't take 1hr 45 mins at canada, so we should see the whole race, with maybe shortened post-race stuff, unless there are many saftey cars or a red flag or rain.

we didn't see the press-conference at nurburgring 2 weeks ago though, and that was at the more conventional time..

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Oh really? You boys don't have qualy? OMG! Let me explain you something:this year, in Australia, we had qualy and race. In Malaysia we only had race. Today, we didn't have the race. Now if you're crying cuz you don't have the qualifyingm think i would be way worse if you didn't have the race...

once AGAIN, this isnt about how our coverage compares to others, but the standards that ITV promised us

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ITV did piss me off today, constant references to the football ( which by the way i love) there was no need to leave the F1 coverage to link up with the football pundits to plug the game, its been in the papers often enough this week!!

and that twat jim rosenthal coming back from that link wearing an England baseball cap was'nt called for



i can understand ITV switching to ITV2 for the post race stuff because of program schedules with live sports though





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I agree. I know football is the main sport, and will get priority, but this was the F! show, not the football show. Footy was gona get its fame afetr the program, there was no need to have it filling up the F1 show, considering they were already cutting the F1 short to fit in the football anyway!

I know, footys the main sport, but dam, some moderation needed from ITV

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DaveEllis Wrote:
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> once AGAIN, this isnt about how our coverage
> compares to others, but the standards that ITV
> promised us
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Since when did we start posting on topic in this forum :P

Anyway, that does sound a bit harsh. F1 comes along one a week or so, football is forever :P. It wouldn't hurt them that badly to keep some of that stuff for the F1 coverage.


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The ITV pre-race coverage was indeed bouk inducing stuff. Especially the Jenson-i-don't-have-clue-waht-i'm-talking-about-Button v Panis football square up!


"No it's not a skirt"

oh god, you're right about that! Jensons probably never watched a game in his life! but i guess ITV had a great idea to do a bit of cross-promotion. nearly made me puke!

Jenson: "We've got Owen, Rio...oh wait, we haven't got him!" (yes Jenson, Rio has been banned for months)

Panis: "We've got Zidane, Henry, Vieira, Barthez, etc etc." (he didn't say this, but he would have flattened buttons jibe at the french)

The ITV2 coverage went on till about 7:40pm. Jim and TOny were indeed sat in the paddock, and Jenson joined them.

It was funny when jim said who's this?(referring to jenson), and jenson replied "Jason Burton". people who don't fully follow F1 probably call him that, like Damian Hill.

they also showed the press conference. Rubens genuinely seemed really happy, i thought he would have appeared to be really pissed off, because he couldn't, or wasn't allowed to pass michael.

then rubens made some sort of excuse for not passing, saying he tried, but michael went round the outside or something, and kept the position.

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He would've been referring to when Rubens for once managed to take a decent line round the hairpin and got in Schumacher's slipstream down the staight towards the final chicane. Rubens moved out and was going down the inside but Michael braked late and went round the outside of the chicane.


"No it's not a skirt"

yeah, thats is what i thought, but watching it again, he really didn't try to pass him, he just moved to the right, then back behind michael. michael appeared to take the same line he always took.

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When I watched it Michael seemed to be visibly braking later, and thus took longer to get into the apex of the corner than normal.


"No it's not a skirt"

well either way, rubens' attempt was half-hearted at best. if he seriously wanted to pass michael, he could have done so.

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Could he? Same car, same tyres, same engine. Michael kept a train of 3 faster cars behind him last year when had hardly any brakes, so why couldn't he keep Rubens behind in a car that was in a lot better shape?


"No it's not a skirt"

he was a lot closer to michael than a car usually is when its normally trying to overtake. michael looked slightly worried too, kept checking his mirrors and looked uncomfortable until rubens pitted. i think had he made a lunge up the inside, if michael was half-expecting it, he obviously wouldn't have fought it.

its just that it looks bad on them, with rubens apparently being so much faster during those laps. everybody will (quite rightly) say he wasn't allowed to pass, and they'll slag ferrari even more. it would have been a good move had rubens committed to a passing move, and got past. he really doesn't have many excuses afterwards, because he was right with him. if he was 5 seconds away, then no-one would question too much, but he was right on his tail, so its a tricky situation for all involved.

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everybody will (quite rightly) say he wasn't allowed to pass, and they'll slag ferrari even more.

It's a vicious circle. Had Rubens passed, it may have been team orders...



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exactly.

being teammates who are also good friends, they're not going to fight with each other as they might with other drivers.

so if rubens had tried a move, michael would have jumped out of the way to avoid a collision, but hten everybody would say michael let rubens gp past, so they're manipulating results again.

rubens didn't/couldn't get past, so people say he wasn't allowed to, so they're in a no win situation.

best way would be for them to be at least 20 seconds apart at all times.

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so if rubens had tried a move, michael would have jumped out of the way to avoid a collision, but hten everybody would say michael let rubens gp past, so they're manipulating results again.

rubens didn't/couldn't get past, so people say he wasn't allowed to, so they're in a no win situation.


thats what happens though when on a regular basis ferrari take the piss out of the sport, you have to expect it when thats how they have conducted themselves for the past 8 years




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Ah but didnt Panis predict 2-1 to France......

THe thing that annoyed me was that they were so keen to get to the football that they spoke and cut away during the national anthems.

30 seconds more would have been fine - show some bloody respect ITV!!!



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There is one simple way to solve all this programming argument. Simply start your own TV and buy the rights to F1. Then you can do what ever you want with it.

I'm from Australia, and in comparison to you Brits, we have it sh*t. the only good thing is that we get ITV commentary from the track (even if it is dubbed over on occaision by the two twits in the studio in sydney who feel that they need to say the same thing that martin did just 30 seconds eariler). But that's not the point.

Unless we own the station, there's really not much we can do.