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Message: [QUOTE="Fenderman, post: 246294, member: 179"] First and foremost the directors and producers of the TV coverage need to be retrained. It took a long time for them to get rid of the annoying habit of just following the one or two guys at the front (1970's coverage would be absolutely intolerable today). Surely it's not beyond their capacity to have a "spotter" or two around the track who keep half an eye on the timing screens and tip them off about battles and impending overtakes so that more can be seen in real time? It's all very well giving us a slo-mo replay of an overtake or other incident but what about the lead up to the action? The best example of how bad a spectacle that can be is when we get a replay of a DRS assisted overtake. Without seeing the work the overtaker had to do to get into that precious "under a second" zone the event is about as interesting as watching a cyclist ride past a pedestrian. Then there is the annoying habit they have of cutting away from something happening to play one of the damn replays, or worse to cut to crowd or team reaction. Another gripe I have is with the excessive zooming in on one car and following it in a way that makes it look little more than a still shot. That is especially irritating when the car is one of several or more tussling for position. Those are just several of the irritations with regard to the spectacle but there's also the "supporting show". The continual slide away from giving the viewer the technical background and toward the inane and decreasingly informative, presenteritis infested chit chat. The only good thing about those bits is that it gives me time to make a coffee or two and some lunch. Yes, F1 is high tech' but Martin Brundle demonstrated in his "Inside F1" tech' pieces (on another channel) that it can presented in a clear and informative way to the average viewer. Finally, after such major changes to the reg's and what is turning out to be a pretty interesting season, is it not a good idea to have a little stability to see how it shapes up? Austria showed that whilst Mercedes got the job done yet again they didn't have it all their own way and their drivers are racing (for the moment anyway). I'm not sure F1 is broken right now and don't see a reason to fix it ... ... any more than it's fixed already;) [/QUOTE]

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