Re: 2012 Formula One season : Sat Mar 17, 2012 1:53 pm  

Dead Man Walking wrote:

Poor old Ferrari ( ha - ha !!! ) !!!

Ha, such a shame for Fernando....... Should give him plenty to moan about for the season.

Re: 2012 Formula One season : Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:22 am  

Dominant stuff from Button, controlled the race from the start. Great drives from Vettel and Alonso too.

The sky commentator, Croft?, has a lot of work to do - I'm only a casual F1 watcher but even I heard mistake after mistake from him.

Re: 2012 Formula One season : Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:55 am  

Asim wrote:

Dominant stuff from Button, controlled the race from the start. Great drives from Vettel and Alonso too.

The sky commentator, Croft?, has a lot of work to do - I'm only a casual F1 watcher but even I heard mistake after mistake from him.

He's from 5live I think, way too shouty!

And the presenter, a bit smarmy

Re: 2012 Formula One season : Sun Mar 18, 2012 10:16 am  

Asim wrote:

Dominant stuff from Button, controlled the race from the start. Great drives from Vettel and Alonso too.

The sky commentator, Croft?, has a lot of work to do - I'm only a casual F1 watcher but even I heard mistake after mistake from him.

The commentator for sky has left me unsure, far too excited for the entire race...... Even with the safety car out....... Have to say though that Sky seem to be doing an outstanding job.

Good race all in all, and although I bet on Hamilton am glad Button won. Would love to see him take the championship again.

Think the race proved that Vettel probably just had a bad start to the weekend and Alonso is getting everything he can from that car.

Re: 2012 Formula One season : Mon Mar 19, 2012 1:39 pm  

Asim wrote:

Dominant stuff from Button, controlled the race from the start. Great drives from Vettel and Alonso too.

The sky commentator, Croft?, has a lot of work to do - I'm only a casual F1 watcher but even I heard mistake after mistake from him.

David Croft is an immensely knowledgeable F1 man, he's been at every race for over many many years now heading 5 live's commentary, works brilliantly with Brundle imo, so much more suited to the job than DC was... the presenter and Damon Hill are laughable, they dont let anyone speak, theyre always butting in!

Great start to the season

[John_D]

Re: 2012 Formula One season : Mon Mar 19, 2012 1:54 pm  

Pretty car wins. Justice is served.

[Chris71]

Re: 2012 Formula One season : Mon Mar 19, 2012 4:41 pm  

Think it will be an interesting season, I can see McLaren improving the car from the baseline they have already set, Red Bull will be the nearest rivals to them but think it will be McLarens season.

For me Vettel got lucky as Schumacher & Grosjean left the race giving him two places he didnt have to fight for and then got a lucky break with the Safety Car.

Re: 2012 Formula One season : Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:03 pm  

I have been listening to Croft doing F1 on 5 live for years and he's a good commentator,he's used to having to bring the race to life for radio listeners so that's why he's a bit louder than other F1 commentators,when he gets used to doing tv I sure he'll calm down a little bit.

As for the race it was easy in the end for Button once he got past Hamilton to the 1st corner,the Ferrari team has a lot of work to do to catch up the top 2 teams.It was good to see Williams back at the right end of the field with Maldonado until his crash and hopefully they'll stay there for the rest of the season.

Re: 2012 Formula One season : Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:46 pm  

Massive difference between doing radio work and TV work, look how long it's taken Jonathan Pearce to tone it down a bit.

[John_D]

Re: 2012 Formula One season : Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:27 am  

Andy Gilder wrote:

Massive difference between doing radio work and TV work, look how long it's taken Jonathan Pearce to tone it down a bit.

Jonathan Pearce has toned it down?!?