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I still remember his bit before the lights went out in Monaco in 2002.

That said, he is enthusiastic and was probably blamed too much for the Hamilton bias in 2007-8.

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

Thank you for your response, I appreciate it!

I never experienced Sky Sports with live subtitling. So it is good to know they can do that.

I am still wondering if Virgin Media will get the Sky F1 channel or not? As I got a large cable TV package with Virgin Media (I got the package because of Eurosport!)

Sky have released a new promo featuring some archive footage:
http://www.skysports.com/video/inline/0 ... 42,00.html

And announced there theme music will be Just Drive by Alistair Griffin, BBC used it as there season ending theme in 2010:

That music is fine for an outro/ending theme, but not intro. An intro is meant to pump you up, and get you excited. They may not be able to get the Chain, but that's a terrible choice.

Wow, thats their song choice? I want to get excited going into an F1 race, not feel like I am at the end of an episode of scrubs (so basically feeling low). Terrible choice, truly awful.

There's a wonderful irony in that, what with the singer being a good mate of Jake Humphreys.

Shit choice though for an intro.

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

It's almost if they thought "you know what, fuck it, we can't beat the Chain so lets not even try. Google some songs with race or drive or speed or fast in the title will ya, we'll just use one of them, cba putting more thought into it than that!"

Can think of a few better songs even than that if that's the case.
Most of the back catalogue of "Cake" for one.

From Digital Spy:

F1 Show - 290k
Practice - 370k
Qualifying - 1.12m (exclusive) / 420k (shared)
Race - 1.34m (exclusive) / 500k (shared)

Channel will launch around March 9

During all 20 race weeks throughout the 2012 season, the channel will be on-air for 63 hours, with a schedule as follows:

Monday to Thursday: 20:00 - 23:00
Friday – Sunday: 07:00 - 24:00

Race specific coverage will run as detailed below:

Fridays: Practice 1: 2:05 hrs, Practice 2: 1:55 hrs.
Saturdays: Practice 3: 1:30 hrs, Qualifying 2:45 hrs.
Sundays: Live Race action: 4:30 hrs.

Between March 9 and November 30, non-race week F1 coverage will be running for 32 hours each week, transmitting at the following times:

Monday to Thursday: 20:00 – 23:00
Friday: 19:00 – 23:00
Saturday & Sunday: 15:00 – 23:00

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

From Jake (BBC team): Training sesh done! You know that #bbcf1 news I mentioned? It's released Thursday & concerns a GP winner joining the TV team, not ex-driver!

Confusing... GP winner not ex-driver?! Either someone who's "active" at mo, like Barrichello, or someone who was a GP winner but isn't driving last year (Herbert, Hill, etc)?

Any thoughts?

Unless he means it's a Grand Prix winner, not 'just' an ex-F1 driver?

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

Oh fuck, it's Mansell.

Could mean a team boss, Ron Dennis or someone?

Eddie & Ron Dennis together? Hurrr.

Also, could you imagine the forums.

Jake: So Ron, what do you think?
*Ronspeak*

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

I am pretty sure it is Johnny Herbert; Johnny has been really good in doing coverage for the GT1 World championship this year and also for Eurosport he has done some good stuff. Johnny is also quite outspoken, which will seriously help in improving the coverage.

Exactly. Instant TV gold.

What when they start punching each other?

Jake:


Jake tweeted that 1 person has got it right & Its been posted over at DigitalSpy that only 1 person has mentioned Gary Anderson.

It was Gary Anderson, Also Jennie Gow has replaced Natalie Pinkham as Radio 5's pit reporter.:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsp ... efault.stm

Today I made a nice investment for the new F1 season. A DAB radio so I can hear the 5 Live commentaries in high quality. I will not give a penny to Sky.

Sounds like Sky Sports F1 will be on Virgin Media:

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