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Mike Hoxbig said:
Must have touched a nerve with those quoting me :laugh:

Anyway don't let me stop you from getting back to your little circle jerk moaning about how lenient the FIA was to RBR. Or the lame catering jokes. Or traveling back to 2021 to whine about how your guy was robbed. Or making excuses for Ted Kravitz of all people because his opinion coincides with yours.

The salt is hilarious, please go on...
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Are you ok?
 
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Hamster said:
Remember that "Merry Christmas" video of Sky with Max crashing in the back? I reckon they're just tired of the Sky bullshit.
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Pretty sure all coverage have their leans and biases. The official F1tv coverage team isn't an exception either. My favourite blatant example to date was that Ziggo dutch journalist asking Lando about the "french ****" Ocon - that set a whole new bar. :laugh:
 
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quovadis said:
Pretty sure all coverage have their leans and biases. The official F1tv coverage team isn't an exception either. My favourite blatant example to date was that Ziggo dutch journalist asking Lando about the "french ****" Ocon - that set a whole new bar. :laugh:
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It's Viaplay (Nordic company) now I think, Ziggo lost the rights. Still a bunch of Dutch ****ers doing the race commentary though and they are getting so much flak on Twitter after every broadcast.

I get bias, fact of life, but Sky is like the defacto "official" broadcaster.
 
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It's Viaplay (Nordic company) now I think, Ziggo lost the rights. Still a bunch of Dutch ****ers doing the race commentary though and they are getting so much flak on Twitter after every broadcast.

I get bias, fact of life, but Sky is like the defacto "official" broadcaster.
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Nah the defacto official broadcaster now is F1 themselves. Sky is simply carried on english channels who are too busy/cheap to provide their own commentary feed.
 
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Biases and rivalries aside, this nonsense with commentators and now Red Bull boycotting and all that stuff. It really hurts the sport.

As idealistic and naive as it sounds, I really wish it could just be about the racing, technical breakdowns etc.

Banter is one thing hit it’s so messy since the advent of social media
 
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UrBaN963 said:
Biases and rivalries aside, this nonsense with commentators and now Red Bull boycotting and all that stuff. It really hurts the sport.

As idealistic and naive as it sounds, I really wish it could just be about the racing, technical breakdowns etc.

Banter is one thing hit it’s so messy since the advent of social media
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Agreed but imho Liberty Media are partly to blame as they have attracted a whole new generation of fans where marketing and engagement is driven by polarisation across various platforms. It's obviously been great for obtaining new eyeballs but not so great from a sporting perspective. Add the FIA criticisms and missteps including the now infamous "human error" and it's just distraction after distraction after distraction.
 
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UrBaN963 said:
Biases and rivalries aside, this nonsense with commentators and now Red Bull boycotting and all that stuff. It really hurts the sport.

As idealistic and naive as it sounds, I really wish it could just be about the racing, technical breakdowns etc.

Banter is one thing hit it’s so messy since the advent of social media
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Let's not forget the FIA have scored enough own goals the past few years.
 
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quovadis said:
Agreed but imho Liberty Media are partly to blame as they have attracted a whole new generation of fans where marketing and engagement is driven by polarisation across various platforms. It's obviously been great for obtaining new eyeballs but not so great from a sporting perspective. Add the FIA criticisms and missteps including the now infamous "human error" and it's just distraction after distraction after distraction.
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If you think of it from the point of view of someone trying to run a company, you can kind of understand.

F1 was struggling. They tapped into the social media and yank market to get people talking about it. Had they not done so, we would have the racing we want, but the sport would have died a very slow death.

We see it happening in cricket as well. The format that the purists enjoy is slowly dying, while the format that those with short attention spans enjoy is more profitable. Because they can go into social media for every small thing.

If anything is to blame, it's social media. Kill that and watch how much better life in general becomes...
 
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If anything is to blame, it's social media. Kill that and watch how much better life in general becomes...
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Agreed - I'd add thought that F1 had an opportunity to push the sporting angle from day 1 and have failed to do so. Sure there's plenty of toxicity on social media around F1 but it's just running wild and being fed to a certain extent.
 
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