Some good news for F1 TV viewers... ?

Radio conversations between team and driver have been available for a few years, but the team had a button it needed to press to make the channel open to the TV director. Renault were always very good and open about this, even though it used to irritate them that the director kept playing clips of them telling Fisi to push harder. Ferrari and McLaren were useless at opening the line, and would simply open it at the end, after a victory for some stage managed gushing. This season the radios will be open all the time from every team, so you should hear some much more insightful stuff and get a feel for how the big names come across on radio in the heat of battle.

The other thing I’m not so keen on. I’m told that the teams and the FIA are seriously planning to publish the weights of the cars after qualifying. If this is true I think it is mad as it takes away from the suspense of the opening part of the race and might make teams inclined to do more or less the same thing on fuel strategy as each other, which will create more of a procession.

One of the reasons qualifying with fuel has worked was because there was the chance to go short or long and we couldn’t be absolutely sure, because there was always that margin for driver error.

Also it will devalue the pole before the race has even started if say, Kubica has achieved it by running six laps less fuel than Hamilton and Massa. We’ll all stand on the grid saying, “So what?”

I hope that this change does not come about. The new mood of openess in F1 is good, but this is one step too many for me.

From James Allen's GP Diary

Couple of thing's, are they good or not..?...fire away.

We may get a few of these which, can't be bad... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4-zEnO_KwDg ........LOL

 

I have to agree, I normally always watch quali on Saturday morning. Afterwards I tend to have several discussions on whether or not "So and so" was running light or heavy. Granted it's never a guess for Trulli. lol

 

trulli's greatest quote, "i'ma pusha likea hell"

 

I agree knowing the weight at the start does sort of tip everyone's hand. Trouble is mistakes by the driver or his crew (and that includes motors that eat themselves up) did more to change the outcome than how much was in the tank.
CH

 

Trulli also made the memorable comment when he lost a bunch of places at the beginning of a race, Dat was a deesastar!!!!!!!!

 

My Speed channel is now in HD, does anyone know whether the live feed is transmitted that way?

 

Not to sure, but I'm sure I read it is not.

 

Tony how about this one Oh dear !!.. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=heCsKujaxs4

 

I got SPEED HD last year right after Fox finished their broadcasts. All of the races after that, that I'm aware of, were in at least 16:9. I don't think it was true HD because it looked a bit grainy, most likely upsampled SD, but it filled the whole screen without letterbox or pillars.

 

I LOVE the idea of getting all the radio transmissions from the drivers but I'm not sure how the quali thing will work out.