I am loathed to watch and listen to F1.now as the commentary is terrible.
I noticed that our own V8s telecasts and commentary dropped severely in standard since Covid.
There are parts of the Supercars that I enjoy when we have an ex competitor actually explain both race tactics and specialist type mechanical functions but having an unknown screaming incessantly into the mike thinking that he is doing a good job is pretty hard to take.
Many of them are keeping good commentators out of a job.
It might be the age gap between myself and this new wave of sports commentators although I could not think of anything worse than going to the Speedway of a Saturday night.
I would not miss a meeting of any Motorsport when I was young but not today.
Evening Rick, when I was younger, couldn't get enough of any kind of motor sport, F1, bikes, scrambles, speedway, you name it, once I hit 30 the attraction started to wane.
Now one could turn the sound down and thereby be relieved from this annoying noise
but part of watching motor racing is the engine noise. Hands up those who do not enjoy a V8 going up the
Bathurst mountain at full noise.
Love it and enjoy it.
And there's nothing better than being in a corporate tent right at the end of Conrod straight as they come down the mountain in full flight into the Chase. I could sit there forever listening and watching them. The wife and myself, the older we get the more we like them. Better than all that other crap on the telly, at least we're both interested
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I like watching the Toyota 86GTS racing at Bathurst but I agree that the commentary is totally crap. The commentators in most sport these days sound as though they are about to have a caniption. Ridiculous.
-- Edited by 86GTS on Wednesday 1st of March 2023 06:20:05 AM
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I use to watch Bathurst when I was a teenager....Alan Moffet, Peter Brock, John Goss, Murray Carter, Dick Johnson and all the others.. I even bought a XA Falcon coupe. But as I got older, I only gave it a passing glance.
Couple of years ago I retired. This year when Bathurst was on, I had not much to do, so I watched from start to finish and really enjoyed it, so much so I wondered what it would be like to be in one of those mighty cars. I got on the net and booked myself two hot laps with John Bowe this Sunday in a V8 supercar at Sandown race track.
I am a bit nervous, but it should be a great experience!
On ya Collo, as for most of the rest here you must be dead from the neck up and not know it re V8 supercars and the exhaust flames are back with the new cars. Less down force so closer racing (take note please F1 rule makers) As for formula one KAAARK!! an over priced snooze show where most of the passing is done in the pits, how exciting, it's almost reality show tv boring.
Evening Rick, when I was younger, couldn't get enough of any kind of motor sport, F1, bikes, scrambles, speedway, you name it, once I hit 30 the attraction started to wane.
When younger I am sure I was addicted to the smell of Castrol R as well as the sounds of the cars.
We have lost that smell with the advent of fuel injections and turbos which can stand as another reason for my lack of interest in live events.
On ya Collo, as for most of the rest here you must be dead from the neck up and not know it re V8 supercars and the exhaust flames are back with the new cars. Less down force so closer racing (take note please F1 rule makers) As for formula one KAAARK!! an over priced snooze show where most of the passing is done in the pits, how exciting, it's almost reality show tv boring.
I suspect mature adults who still enthuse over commercial motor sport are the ones who are "dead from the neck up"
I've found maturity has resulted in my interests becoming more cerebral and far less visceral.
