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Sky Sports has extended its partnership with Formula 1 to remain the home of F1 in the UK and Ireland until 2024.
  • Free to air: The FORMULA 1 BRITISH GRAND PRIX, together with highlights of all other races and qualifying sessions, will be shown on a 'free-to-air' basis.
  • Sky Sports Mix: Additionally, at least two other 'prime time' live races a season will be offered on the soon-to-be-launched Sky Sports Mix channel along with other F1 content.
  • UHD: For the first time every race starting with the 2017 championship will be shown in the stunning picture quality of Ultra High Definition via Sky Q, the next-generation home entertainment system.

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12...-show-every-f1-race-live-from-2019-until-2024
 
The brand spanking new super amazing Sky Q will give us 4K Formula 1 then..... From 2017 :wenger:
 
Not a huge surprise really, guessing that's what prompted the GPDA statement earlier... Hopefully "Crofty" will have been replaced by 2019 or I'm going to have to watch my illegal stream with no commentary.
 
Top of the sky sports page as if anyone is delighted with it. Skys in-race coverage is very good but that's because of Martin Brundle and we had him free for years
 
Why would they do that? The popularity is already on the decline.
 
pauldyson1uk said:
Sky Q actually works out cheaper and month for me but for the equipment and set up they want £250 :eek:
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Ha, I'd tell them to feck right off.

We currently pay only £25pm for the full Sky package but that runs out in July, think we'll have to cancel and re-up under the missus name at that point to get it at £30. Sky Q can do one, I'm not paying full price.
 
pauldyson1uk said:
I did , I want the equipment for free.
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Good man, I'd imagine you'll get a call from them in a week or so offering you at least a massively reduced rate.

They must realise they'll soon be at the point where they're trying to sell ice to Eskimos, traditional TV subscription services can't carry on competing against online content in their current form.
 
Rado_N said:
Good man, I'd imagine you'll get a call from them in a week or so offering you at least a massively reduced rate.

They must realise they'll soon be at the point where they're trying to sell ice to Eskimos, traditional TV subscription services can't carry on competing against online content in their current form.
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Yep, people will be outraged by this but by 2019 I doubt it'll matter. The BBC that do a lot of great coverage online the others just don't come close. Interesting the in this driver letter the move towards pay TV was one of the main topics. The F1 audience has dropped significantly, obviously in terms of lack of entertainment but the move to pay tv around Europe.
 
Rooney1987 said:
Yep, people will be outraged by this but by 2019 I doubt it'll matter. The BBC that do a lot of great coverage online the others just don't come close. Interesting the in this driver letter the move towards pay TV was one of the main topics. The F1 audience has dropped significantly, obviously in terms of lack of entertainment but the move to pay tv around Europe.
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Bernie is worse than Janice in accounting though, he don't give a feck!
 
This comes on the day when one of the disputed points in the GPDA letter was:
  • the move towards pay TV, which is at the centre of declining audiences
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Saw this earlier and made me laugh...

Yesterday the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association wrote an open letter to F1 bosses pleading with them to avoid poor commericial decsions that will damage the sport. Hours later Sky announced an exclusive rights deal in the UK, ending free-to-air F1 from 2019.

Now the reverse psychology wing of the GPDA has issused another letter, this time begging those in charge of the sport to ‘please continue with short term greed until there are literally no fecking fans left’.

The letter also urges F1 bosses to ‘introduce lots of extremely contrived rules that do nothing to improve the sport but look utterly desperate and completely ignore the basic problem of how sodding boring it is’.

The signatories of the letter also say they want to ‘encourage new tracks and new ideas, but these must NOT prioritise interesting racing above the vital cause of making cadaverous old shits even richer’.

Finally, the letter implores F1’s governors to ‘actively shun social media and other technologies because if you just ignore things they always go away and definitely don’t make an entire sport look like an outdated old farts’ club that won’t be happy until literally everyone who was once interested in F1 has given up or died’.

Interestingly, the strongly-worded letter strenuously avoids naming individuals, although it does make several mysterious references to a ‘spiteful, greedy microtwat’.





In other news, Grand Prix Drivers’ Association directors Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel and Alex Wurz have written an open letter asking why the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association still has Alex Wurz as a director.
 
And after deciding to return to the old qualifying system for Bahrain, and then talking about a hybrid version (running Q1 and Q2 with the new system and the old Q3), now they're going to run the entire new qualifying system again in Bahrain and think about it afterwards.

Jokers.
 
Amir said:
And after deciding to return to the old qualifying system for Bahrain, and then talking about a hybrid version (running Q1 and Q2 with the new system and the old Q3), now they're going to run the entire new qualifying system again in Bahrain and think about it afterwards.

Jokers.
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I actually think that may work , Q1 was pretty decent in Australia ,Q2 was OK
 
pauldyson1uk said:
I actually think that may work , Q1 was pretty decent in Australia ,Q2 was OK
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True, but Q3 wasn't and probably won't be, so why ruin another qualifying session with it.

Anyhow, the problem is that they keep changing their minds. First they bring in a half baked idea. After it falls flat, they cancel it. Then they bring it back, even though they will probably still change it after Bahrain. It's not how a multi million dollar sports should be run.
 
I actually think the qualifying system could be good if the drivers weren't forced to conserve tyres for the race. That way the drivers would have incentive to give it a go to in order to beat the elimination without having to worry about using up a set of tyres.
 
Amir said:
True, but Q3 wasn't and probably won't be, so why ruin another qualifying session with it.

Anyhow, the problem is that they keep changing their minds. First they bring in a half baked idea. After it falls flat, they cancel it. Then they bring it back, even though they will probably still change it after Bahrain. It's not how a multi million dollar sports should be run.
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I think run Q1 and Q2 the new way or maybe just combine it into one session and then Q3 the old way that we know works and you get the excitement.
I do agree with need to stop fecking about with it.
 
Right Lads, I am going to leave this up to you.
Still cant get on http://www.fantasy-f1-league.com/ and it is annoying me , emailed him and no reply.

I have found another one, that is free and looks pretty decent, more involved and more choices to make.

http://gppredictor.com/my-team

I have set a new league up on there or we wait to see if our other one comes back.
Have a look and see what you think.

this is the link to the RedCafe F1 Fantasy League.

http://gppredictor.com/league/join/id/56f459db30746e6d4e4eefca/code/3c06e1bfa2649a685332c1d82c81b372
 
RDCR07 said:
How does FI Fantasy work? I would like to join this year if a new league is being set up now. @pauldyson1uk
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Pretty easy really on the one we cant get on , you have a set amount of money to pick drivers , engines, chassis and aero packs.
You can either pick and leave it for the season or chop and change after each race
The other I did in case the first one goes tits up , you pick top 10 , pole , fastest lap and most places gained.
This you do for every race.
 
well our first one is now back, I will leave it in your hands which one we use.
This is the standings after the first race.

Pos Manager Team Points
1st panther F1 84
2nd pauldyson1uk Billy Jack Racing 83
3rd dargonk Dargon's crew 80
4th krits teabagggers 74
5th scottyj17 FC Ronaldo 73
6th spwd MANSELLS MOUSTACHE, 68
7th highoncaf Enzo's Red 65
8th christy87 Langers on a mission 65
9th eric cartman Cartman 64
10th sigma Mike Wazowski's Eye 63
11th edweatherall Elbow Licking at 200MPH 61
12th skulkrinbait Charge! 61
13th uniquim Toyota F1 59
14th dante dante 59
15th giggsy92 TeamRocket 59
16th screech44 Redfish-Alfa 56
17th rpitroda Spasian Racing 54
18th leg-end Better Call Bernie 50
19th sun_tzu 2inthegoo1inthepoo 50
20th senorgregster Hamilton Academical 49
21st impulse Team 3 47
22nd thebest191 TheBest 46
23rd thegrumpylion GrumpyLions 44
24th hp88 hp88 0
 
Oooh, I am 7th. Me likey! If this site is working, we can stick with it can't we ? If we jump over now, we basically lose points for the first race.
 
strange one, top team has left?

1st pauldyson1uk Billy Jack Racing 83
2nd dargonk Dargon's crew 80
3rd krits teabagggers 74
4th scottyj17 FC Ronaldo 73
5th spwd MANSELLS MOUSTACHE, 68
6th highoncaf Enzo's Red 65
7th christy87 Langers on a mission 65
8th eric cartman Cartman 64
9th sigma Mike Wazowski's Eye 63
10th edweatherall Elbow Licking at 200MPH 61
11th skulkrinbait Charge! 61
12th uniquim Toyota F1 59
13th dante dante 59
14th giggsy92 TeamRocket 59
15th screech44 Redfish-Alfa 56
16th rpitroda Spasian Racing 54
17th leg-end Better Call Bernie 50
18th sun_tzu 2inthegoo1inthepoo 50
19th senorgregster Hamilton Academical 49
20th impulse Team 3 47
21st thebest191 TheBest 46
22nd thegrumpylion GrumpyLions 44
23rd hp88 hp88 0
 
4th already. Nice.

Has everyone revealed their teams yet?

Also is this one of those ones where you can make transfers or are we set for the season?

I didn't look at the rules once ha.
 
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