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Post by pnance26 on Jul 2, 2023 9:56:11 GMT -8
This season has grown very boring. One of the Sky Sports guys voiced it today "Verstappen will win and everyone else is running for second."
I do not presume to know what Red Bull has but I do know that I have grown to dislike Verstappen much in the same way I grew to dislike Michael Schumacher.
When you have as many track limits penalties as today, there is a problem. When your best coverage is five cars racing for 15th and are all laps down, there is a problem. When no one has anything to challenge Red Bull, there is a problem.
I have been just fast forwarding through the race slowing only for the radio traffic.
I do have one other complaint... today, Carlos Sainz was literally whining on the radio that when he was passed for position, the other driver was "intimidating me too much". Talk about a cry baby. As Rusty Wallace said after the first Texas NASCAR race "... a bunch of cry-babies... just shut up and drive."
Chicago road race isn't off to a good start either with the Xfinity race stopped for rain yesterday and called off today because of rain. So, we do have Indy Car... so much for the fact that Memorial Day is "The greatest day in racing" because it has Monaco (boring), Indy (usually entertaining), and Charlotte (also boring for the first 500 miles). Today is the Austrian Grand Prix, the Chicago road race, and the IndyCar race at Mid-Ohio. Three road races in three series... now that's a day for fracing!
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Post by vintagerpm on Jul 2, 2023 12:14:11 GMT -8
You forgot that we also had the 24 Hours of Spa this weekend. Yes, it was on TV in the US, on CBS Sports Network.
Thought the F1 sprint race on Saturday was entertaining, mostly because rain is the great equaizer.
As for the F1 track limit penalties, I have a suggestion - only run street races. They'll learn track limits pretty quickly.
Indy Car put on a great show at Mid-Ohio today.
Guess we'll see if NASCAR can get the Cup race going or not (in about 45 minutes).
Mike
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Post by arcticwolf on Jul 2, 2023 14:58:24 GMT -8
You forgot that we also had the 24 Hours of Spa this weekend. Yes, it was on TV in the US, on CBS Sports Network. Thought the F1 sprint race on Saturday was entertaining, mostly because rain is the great equaizer. As for the F1 track limit penalties, I have a suggestion - only run street races. They'll learn track limits pretty quickly. Indy Car put on a great show at Mid-Ohio today. Guess we'll see if NASCAR can get the Cup race going or not (in about 45 minutes). Mike Just move the gravel traps next to the asphalt (no curbs).  |
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Post by Joel_W on Jul 2, 2023 15:22:32 GMT -8
Patrick,
I've been a Red Bull fan for many years, so by default I'm a Verstappen/Perez fan. As much as you don't like Verstappen/Redbull and blame them for putting on a boring show, that's exactly how I felt about Hamilton/Mercedes era. Now there was boring at it's very best. F1 has just about always been about one or two drivers/teams dominating a season and or era. Even with the budget limits with 10 teams going in 10 different directions, with a handful of unequal engines, this is what you usually get.
I totally agree with you that being forced to watch mid field back because that's the only racing going on gets pretty stale in no time flat. But the only other option in this case is watching Checo move up from 15 to 3rd, and we did get a healthy dose of it.
As for adding gravel traps to the outside of turns 9 & 10, that sure would solve the problem but only if the traps are close enough to the white line. What we had today at last count was 1,200 times that the drivers exceeded the track limits. Never saw so many 5, 10, and even one 15 min penalties issued before. But the kings of exceeding track limits because they can is NASCAR.
I tapped the Indy Car race that I'll be watching in a few. Reason for taping all Indy Car and Nascar races is simple. I can skip the million and one commercials. And in that category, Indy Car is the World Champion at it.
joel
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Post by pnance26 on Jul 5, 2023 5:17:33 GMT -8
So I have DirecTV and about 5 minutes into the NASCAR race on NBC, the screen went black and then went to a "technical difficulty" screen which was then replaced by a DirecTV apology to its viewers. Seems that NexStar which owns the local NBC affiliate is trying to jack up their costs to DirecTV and DirecTV said "no". This has resulted in the loss of local NBC programming and KTLA on the CW network. A Spanish station is also affected.
The thing is NexStar tried this last fall only it was at the same time as NBC was going to air NFL games. And it got resolved very quickly. Guess the NFL has more juice that NBC and NASCAR! As of today, we still have no NBC network. Good thing I don't watch their programming.
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Post by Joel_W on Jul 5, 2023 13:10:30 GMT -8
Patrick
That really sucks. Nothing like corp greed hard at work.
joel
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Post by eliminatormach1 on Jul 5, 2023 15:09:57 GMT -8
So I have DirecTV and about 5 minutes into the NASCAR race on NBC, the screen went black and then went to a "technical difficulty" screen which was then replaced by a DirecTV apology to its viewers. Seems that NexStar which owns the local NBC affiliate is trying to jack up their costs to DirecTV and DirecTV said "no". This has resulted in the loss of local NBC programming and KTLA on the CW network. A Spanish station is also affected. The thing is NexStar tried this last fall only it was at the same time as NBC was going to air NFL games. And it got resolved very quickly. Guess the NFL has more juice that NBC and NASCAR! As of today, we still have no NBC network. Good thing I don't watch their programming. I also have DirecTV. We lost our local ABC affiliate which is owned by Nexstar. It's not a problem right now as I can't remember the last time I watched anything on ABC. |
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