f1jcw wrote: ↑08 Feb 2023, 13:54
Well a video today is saying that JH was cancelled due to him saying that the end of 2021 race Abu Dhabi, was wrong, against the rules and left a bad taste in the mouth.
As even FIA admitted it finished incorrectly, should a presenter be sacked for stating facts?
f1jcw wrote: ↑08 Feb 2023, 13:56
chrisc90 wrote: ↑29 Jan 2023, 18:37
Any of them who doesnt have a piece of Mercedes/team stuck in their rear would be better to be fair. Cringeworthy at times.
The entire F1 show is almost the Christian Horner show, every 5 minutes it, lets see what Horner has to say.
They boycotted the show when Sky said something they didn't like and sky had to grovel forgiveness, if anything they need to remove the redbull from their rear.
Seeing as they brought it up and just about every time their sound was on, that was the reason? The matter is well and truly closed, the talking point is pointless and tiresome. Even well before 2021 the majority of sky pundits seemed to be Mercedes' personal cheering squad.
Of course it's normal for people to have a bit of a preference towards a team/person. Even professional pundits. The bias is clearly there...Yes the Dutch broadcast team is very biased as well, but they do not broadcast worldwide, only to a small country with a couple of people living in it. Sky does broadcast to a worldwide audience.
As for Horner being on TV a lot...I mean so is Toto, Steiner, Binotto (we can scratch him off now), snafzauer, Zak Brown...so I don't see the issue here.
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Sky would be great simply with Brundle, Chandhok, Natalie Pinkman, Naomi Schiff and Anthony Davidson. Someone else said it perfectly about Crofty, not sure if it was here or elsewhere, but Crofty just doesn't come across as being passionate about F1. I think he enjoys being known for going on about utterly irrelevant tangents constantly. I know he's there to ask questions for newer viewers to understand parts of F1 they don't quite get but it's done in such a way that he's got no F1 knowledge at all. They can't all be Murray, but how hard is to find a guy that commentate with passion about a sport? So what that he got 90% wrong, the passion is what made him great. Not the endless waffling that Crofty does.
For F1TV, I think Jolyon Palmer is utterly fantastic. I wish they could have John Watson with him as often as possible...about as straight forward as they come. Ben Edwards is great as well. I despise Buxton, he wasn't very good in GP2 and after getting to F1, he's become worse as the chief narrator in DTS and the F1 games.