Official 2012 Formula 1 Season Thread

[HonestTea]

Damn Schumi!

[StylinRed]

Originally Posted by c3m

I'm starting to get really annoyed by this finger.
Not because of his pole, just because his whole team and himself go cocky about getting pole.

they're all doing the finger now even rosberg did it last week

[HonestTea]

Button's "W"!

[StylinRed]

fucking Schumacher got hit with a grid penalty; he had a gearbox change -_-

[StylinRed]

pretty good performance from Schumi i guess up into 10th


Kimi sooo close but gj to Vettel



Rosbergs probably going to be in shit with the stewards

and no spectators even on the main grandstand they filled it with a bunch of track crew @ the end there

[falcon]

Man TSN is pissing me off. They go to commercial every time something happens. No one else runs ads during an F1 race. At least put some text below the race screen so you can follow what's going on.

[falcon]

Also finally nice to see Kimi on the podium, well... both Lotus cars to be honest. They are starting to show their pace and if they keep it up I can see Kimi fighting for the championship. He seems to have a faster car than Vettel, and with more seat time he is going to start pulling ahead.

Funny how in the post race interview Kimi was like "yea, it was easy passing those cars to get up to the front..." I like how he is just straight forward no BS type of guy.

[HonestTea]

Originally Posted by falcon

Man TSN is pissing me off. They go to commercial every time something happens. No one else runs ads during an F1 race. At least put some text below the race screen so you can follow what's going on.

FUCK I KNOW! TSN is totally pissing me off, they always choose the worse fucking times to split screen and shit always happens during.

For a Bahrain race, I have to say..it wasn't too bad..I expected a more boring race tbh lol but Barcelona is probably gonna be boring though..last year DRS didn't help it much..

So happy to see Kimi back up on the podium was hoping he'd get pass Vettel and take the win And I'm starting to be a fan of Grosjean, the guy seems like a genuine nice guy in interviews and hes pretty fucking fast..

The extra year in GP2 definitely helped in mature.

Sucks for Button, blown exhaust and puncture

[Rich Sandor]

Here's the email I sent TSN today, and their out-of-office reply.

I suggest we all send them a similar email.. maybe they'll change it.

Subject Out of Office AutoReply: TSN Formula 1 coverage problems
From Audience Relations TSN <Audience.Relations@bellmedia.ca>
Date Sunday, April 22, 2012 2:34 pm
To Rich Sandor <rsandor@shaw.ca>

Thank you for contacting TSN, TSN2, ESPN Classic and NHL Network.

Due to a large volume of inquiries, we may not be able to respond to your message personally. However, all comments are read and forwarded to the appropriate departments on a daily basis from Monday to Friday (any inquiries received on weekends or holidays will be addressed on the following business day).

For more information regarding our programming, please visit TSN.ca. Daily and weekly broadcast schedules for TSN, TSN2, ESPN Classic and NHL Network are available using the following link: BROADCAST

Regards,
TSN Audience Relations

[falcon]

Email sent.

[falcon]

My hastily written email, just to get my point across. Wasn't going to spend much time on it, as long as they understand the point I'm trying to make.

To whom it may concern,

I recently added TSN to my satellite programming for the sole purpose
to watch Formula One and have the ability to PVR it for races airing
in the early morning. For the last number of years I have been happy
with downloading the race afterwards or watching a live stream from
BBC or SkyTV online. Today while watching the race on TSN for the
first time I was getting EXTREMELY frustrated with the commercial
breaks and the poor timing of them. The screen of the race goes so
small, in addition to having no audio or even text of the commentators
it may as well not even be there. During three of the breaks it came
back to the race with huge position changes, of which I had no idea
how they happened. The current commercial strategy is terrible.

I understand that commercials need to be aired for the station to make
money but you need to have someone sit down and figure out a better
way to implement it. I will hold onto TSN for a few more races to see
if anything changes, if it does not I will be cancelling my
subscription and going back to watching live streams online or
downloading the race afterwards. If SkyTV and BBC can manage to air
the race with no advertising breaks, I imagine TSN can do so also or
at least figure out a different way to air ads (perhaps on a side bar
without audio?). To be honest I doubt anyone watching the race paying
attention to the commercials they are looking at the tiny screen of
the race trying to figure out what is going on.

I know I am not the only one who feels this way I have friends who
have said the same thing and warned me before I added TSN. I didn't
realize it was this bad. Please PLEASE do something about this, and I
can guarantee I will be a permanent TSN subscriber for years to come.
Otherwise, liek I said the $10/mo I need to pay to get the package
with TSN will be cancelled and I will resort to watching streams
(which BTW are getting better and better for clarity, almost to the
point where it's like watching live satellite).

Regards,
Aaron

[mb_]

Fell asleep just before the race

Glad Schumi got a point!

[StylinRed]

Alonsos pissed was bitching during and after the race and even more after the stewards ruled in Rosberg & Hams favour


as for TSN yeah i H8 their cutting to commercial but at least they leave a little window; speed just cuts to commercial with no window

what sucks is that a lot of the live streams were lagged to death too and the ones that worked cut to commercials too

[c3m]

finally watched the race. As a Kimi fan, this was an really exciting race.

I gave up on TSN Live broadcast this year and also since the races are getting back to the 5am start time I can no longer wake up early or stay up late for them so I just watch dl the Sky feed with all the pre race and post race stuff.

[c3m]

With the current KERS and DRS F1 is slowly starting to look like Cyber Formula

Cyber Formula Sin ep1 eng sub 1/3 - YouTube

especially with FIA testing Jet fighter canopy to protect the driver

Formula 1 Jet Fighter Canopy Test for FIA - YouTube

[HonestTea]

Jenson & Lewis meet up with a hero of the past: Ayrton Senna's legendary MP4-4 - YouTube

[StylinRed]

Grosjeans been the fastest @ testing Spain should be interesting next week

[HonestTea]

A bit boring lately with no F1

Mclaren Mercedes : Jenson Button & Lewis Hamilton In The Pit Stop Challenge - YouTube

Lewis Hamilton - Half Man Half Fish - YouTube

Pretty cool to see these guys away from the track..kinda lol

[mb_]

Hamilton disqualified from pole (not a very big fan of him)

[falcon]

And Lotus back up on row 2. Nice to see Maldonado on pole. Some new faces starting to show their talent. I like this season so far.

[StylinRed]

thought there would be an issue with Hammy how silly were they on the fueling

sucker


so looks like rosberg/schumi dont get to start on the clean side of the track as a result :/ (which they were looking forward to)

[StylinRed]

MALDONADO WINS





fucking Senna snaking around the track forcing Schumi into his back



and during Williams' celebration in the garage a fire started and got way out of hand this is the aftermath


Sennas Kers system went poof









edit: omg Schumacher was given a 5 place grid penalty -_- for Monaco

[falcon]

Great race! I was willing Kimi on. I wanted him to take Alonso so bad. Great drive from the Lotus team. Kimi is sneaking his way up the drivers championship.


And, AGAIN FUCK TSN. Just had to say that. Of course again, important stuff happens during the commercial break. In regards to Senna/Schumi, that was Schumis fault more than it was Senna. They were both to blame but being the overtaking driver you must be much more careful.

[HonestTea]

YouTube

[kanon23]

Anyone going to the Canadian GP? Lets have a meet in MTL!