2015 Race of Champions at Olympic Park

2015 Race of Champions at Olympic Park

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JonRB

74,401 posts

271 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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DC and JB in a photo finish... 51 thousandths of a second! eek

MattOz

3,910 posts

263 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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Cheerleaders! smile

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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sirtyro said:
Stadium doesn't look that busy, maybe they haven't sold many tickets
Not surprising. For every decent driver there are two muppets. Joey Essex? FFS. What's he, a champion retard?


sirtyro

1,824 posts

197 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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REALIST123 said:
Not surprising. For every decent driver there are two muppets. Joey Essex? FFS. What's he, a champion retard?
Genuine LOL.

For those interested the 'skill challenge' they are currently doing was developed with Terry Grant and a few others at none other than b'ham wheels oval track

sjtgeray

288 posts

186 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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Hmmm...how does this work. I looked to buy tickets on Monday and the cheapest available seemed to be about £60 each, making it a £180 night out. I decided not to go. But that implied that the cheap seats had sold (or I couldn't drive the website properly!)

Based on the number of seats with bums on (allowing that some ticket holders may have elected not to attend following Paris) why oh why don't they sell them for £20 or so and families who can't afford Silverstone could get to see some famous names in the relative comfort of Wembley.

Surely a stadium full of folks who got a cheap night out is better than what's happened. It makes for terrible TV publicity wise. And we laugh about the rubbish attendances at some of the "new" F1 race locations, yet England, the home of Motorsport can't even fill more than 15% of the place

JonRB

74,401 posts

271 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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ash73 said:
I've given up on it already, I wanted to watch decent drivers not celebrities.
Oh, I agree - Vettel, Button, Ricciardo, Coulthard, Kristensen, Plato, Solberg, Hulkenberg, Massa, Grosjean, Priaulx... not a decent driver amongst them. They could have at least got a few F1 World Champions in couldn't they? rolleyes

Smollet

10,465 posts

189 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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Well England 1 won.

sirtyro

1,824 posts

197 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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The idea of doing it in a stadium is st. Great drivers, decent cars but the track isn't really big enough to test any real skill. I'd bet anybody who's done a full season of club racing with a fair amount of success would look quite good. Why don't they rent the silverstone national circuit, erect some additional seating do the entire track is surrounded and have a decent race

JonRB

74,401 posts

271 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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sirtyro said:
The idea of doing it in a stadium is st. Great drivers, decent cars but the track isn't really big enough to test any real skill. I'd bet anybody who's done a full season of club racing with a fair amount of success would look quite good. Why don't they rent the silverstone national circuit, erect some additional seating do the entire track is surrounded and have a decent race
Because the whole USP of the ROC is, and has always been, that it is held in a temporarily asphalted stadium. That's what it is. It's like saying "why do they bother having a F1 race at Monaco when we could just have another anonymous Tilke circuit in Eastern Europe or the Far East?" or "What's so special about Wimbledon? Why not hold a tennis tournament somewhere less densely populated than London?"




Edited by JonRB on Friday 20th November 22:41

Clubman270

960 posts

196 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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Quite enjoying the coverage, good to see the drivers in relaxed mode, some really tight racing, different cars etc

The commentary is abysmal though, Martin (whatever his name is) keeps getting the split times wrong, Jenny Gow is awful....

sirtyro

1,824 posts

197 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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JonRB said:
Because the whole USP of the ROC is, and has always been, that it is held in a temporarily asphalted stadium. That's what it is. It's like saying "why do they bother having a F1 race at Monaco when we could just have another anonymous Tilke circuit in Eastern Europe or the Far East?" or "What's so special about Wimbledon? Why not hold a tennis tournament somewhere less densely populated than London?"




Edited by JonRB on Friday 20th November 22:41
No the USP of ROC is the best drivers in the same cars. Barbados wasn't in a big stadium last year. Having spoken with Fredrik about a year ago they were discussing the location could be a street track like the FE in London. I think a longer track would make it a bit better for TV, im sure being in the stadium is great

sirtyro

1,824 posts

197 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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Clubman270 said:
Quite enjoying the coverage, good to see the drivers in relaxed mode, some really tight racing, different cars etc

The commentary is abysmal though, Martin (whatever his name is) keeps getting the split times wrong, Jenny Gow is awful....
Martin does the Le Mans commentary on Eurosport and it's terrible. Most of the time they are all shouting over each other

JonRB

74,401 posts

271 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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sirtyro said:
No the USP of ROC is the best drivers in the same cars. Barbados wasn't in a big stadium last year.
I stand corrected then.

I always associate ROC with stadia though.

carl_w

9,154 posts

257 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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JonRB said:
I stand corrected then.

I always associate ROC with stadia though.
Stadia seem to suit Andy Priaulx too. Presumably he hasn't lost his hillclimb skills.

I'm going tomorrow.

DaveGoddard

1,192 posts

144 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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sirtyro said:
Genuine LOL.

For those interested the 'skill challenge' they are currently doing was developed with Terry Grant and a few others at none other than b'ham wheels oval track
How come I wasn't told about that at the time? I commentate on a lot of events there.

Thundersports

656 posts

144 months

Saturday 21st November 2015
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sjtgeray said:
Hmmm...how does this work. I looked to buy tickets on Monday and the cheapest available seemed to be about £60 each, making it a £180 night out. I decided not to go. But that implied that the cheap seats had sold (or I couldn't drive the website properly!)

Based on the number of seats with bums on (allowing that some ticket holders may have elected not to attend following Paris) why oh why don't they sell them for £20 or so and families who can't afford Silverstone could get to see some famous names in the relative comfort of Wembley.

Surely a stadium full of folks who got a cheap night out is better than what's happened. It makes for terrible TV publicity wise. And we laugh about the rubbish attendances at some of the "new" F1 race locations, yet England, the home of Motorsport can't even fill more than 15% of the place
You hit the nail on the head.
I like you looked at the website and all the cheap seats had gone, the cheapest one's that looked like you'd get a decent view were £68 including booking fee etc. The really decent one's were £160! Mickey Mouse event with a Mickey Mouse website/track.

Smollet

10,465 posts

189 months

Saturday 21st November 2015
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sirtyro said:
Clubman270 said:
Quite enjoying the coverage, good to see the drivers in relaxed mode, some really tight racing, different cars etc

The commentary is abysmal though, Martin (whatever his name is) keeps getting the split times wrong, Jenny Gow is awful....
Martin does the Le Mans commentary on Eurosport and it's terrible. Most of the time they are all shouting over each other
His commentary on the WTCC is equally poor. Not sure how he keeps getting the position.

rallycross

12,746 posts

236 months

Saturday 21st November 2015
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Anyone know what chanels this will be on TV?

Smollet

10,465 posts

189 months

Saturday 21st November 2015
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rallycross said:
Anyone know what chanels this will be on TV?
SkySports F1

rallycross

12,746 posts

236 months

Saturday 21st November 2015
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Smollet said:
SkySports F1
Thanks
Thats a shame won't be watching it then.