Don't look at the bbc need website!
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DJFish said:
I don't think it is news, it's a sporting result, I didn't see any other sporting results in the news headlines, they even have a separate website called 'Sport' that you can go to for sports results, and even more specific, an F1 section, if I'd gone looking on there I could see your point.
This is an F1 specific section of a car website so by the same rationale it should be ok to have a big thread title announcing the winner as soon as they cross the finish line? Of course it wouldn't.
I can even see why other news agencies might broadcast the result but the BBC are the same people showing the damn race later in the day, I don't see them publishing the results of Masterchef, Bake-off or any of the other bolleaux competitions they broadcast.
A spoiler is a spoiler and it's not cricket.
Well said, O piscine one.This is an F1 specific section of a car website so by the same rationale it should be ok to have a big thread title announcing the winner as soon as they cross the finish line? Of course it wouldn't.
I can even see why other news agencies might broadcast the result but the BBC are the same people showing the damn race later in the day, I don't see them publishing the results of Masterchef, Bake-off or any of the other bolleaux competitions they broadcast.
A spoiler is a spoiler and it's not cricket.
supertouring said:
Oh, and as for getting up early, do me a favour - it is only F1 
I did do this once - just the once: 1996 season finale, to see if Damon Hill would clinch the title in Japan. We actually bought a new TV for the bedroom just for that one occasion. Never used it after that.DJFish said:
I don't think it is news, it's a sporting result, I didn't see any other sporting results in the news headlines, they even have a separate website called 'Sport' that you can go to for sports results, and even more specific, an F1 section, if I'd gone looking on there I could see your point.
This is an F1 specific section of a car website so by the same rationale it should be ok to have a big thread title announcing the winner as soon as they cross the finish line? Of course it wouldn't.
I can even see why other news agencies might broadcast the result but the BBC are the same people showing the damn race later in the day, I don't see them publishing the results of Masterchef, Bake-off or any of the other bolleaux competitions they broadcast.
A spoiler is a spoiler and it's not cricket.
Cricket, football, golf, tennis, rugby, rowing, cycling, athletics, in fact almost any sport you can think of will appear in the main news section if a Brit wins, something dramatic happens or it's a slow news day.This is an F1 specific section of a car website so by the same rationale it should be ok to have a big thread title announcing the winner as soon as they cross the finish line? Of course it wouldn't.
I can even see why other news agencies might broadcast the result but the BBC are the same people showing the damn race later in the day, I don't see them publishing the results of Masterchef, Bake-off or any of the other bolleaux competitions they broadcast.
A spoiler is a spoiler and it's not cricket.
lbc said:
If you don't want to know the results then don't look at any TV/Radio/News/Internet before watching the race. How difficult is that?
We get these same stupid posts every year.
Evidently fairly difficult if you live in the 25th century.We get these same stupid posts every year.
Couldn't agree more on your second point, that's the beauty of the internet.
supertouring said:
Oh yes I can!
Putting up the qualifying results in an ad break during the qualifying re-run makes sense does it?
Oh, and as for getting up early, do me a favour - it is only F1
And yet your complaining about them showing the result whilst watching a Re-run? If after all "it is only F1" to you then surely your not that bothered about knowing the result before actually seeing it.Putting up the qualifying results in an ad break during the qualifying re-run makes sense does it?
Oh, and as for getting up early, do me a favour - it is only F1
Getting up early mean's we get to know it as it happens, and we don't fall into this situation of finding out the result before we intend to.
Think it was itv that put a news headlines thing on just before the repeated highlights that concluded with yes, you guessed it, the F1 results. and they had james allen commentating too, the b
ds.
That was unfortunate, and rightly annoying. Going on a news website and being upset at finding out some breaking news, well lifes just going to be one big disappointment after another.
ds.That was unfortunate, and rightly annoying. Going on a news website and being upset at finding out some breaking news, well lifes just going to be one big disappointment after another.
LeeThr said:
supertouring said:
Oh yes I can!
Putting up the qualifying results in an ad break during the qualifying re-run makes sense does it?
Oh, and as for getting up early, do me a favour - it is only F1
And yet your complaining about them showing the result whilst watching a Re-run? If after all "it is only F1" to you then surely your not that bothered about knowing the result before actually seeing it.Putting up the qualifying results in an ad break during the qualifying re-run makes sense does it?
Oh, and as for getting up early, do me a favour - it is only F1
Getting up early mean's we get to know it as it happens, and we don't fall into this situation of finding out the result before we intend to.
Last year I wasn't able to watch the final race live due to work. Whilst driving around at work I would turn the radio off while the news came on. Managed to avoid it all. As I was walking up my drive, my phone went off. I looked down and it was the BBC App, saying Hamilton had won.
Pissed is not the word.
Not as bad as a few years ago. One of the early races again, highlights on BBC after the news. Sat in my room waiting for it. They give the fecking results without any warning, despite the highlights being on after.
Learnt my lesson now though. Banned myself from Facebook/Twitter/BBC, PH to a degree and any other forum that may have the results until I had a chance to watch it.
Pissed is not the word.
Not as bad as a few years ago. One of the early races again, highlights on BBC after the news. Sat in my room waiting for it. They give the fecking results without any warning, despite the highlights being on after.
Learnt my lesson now though. Banned myself from Facebook/Twitter/BBC, PH to a degree and any other forum that may have the results until I had a chance to watch it.
Spawn said:
No sympathy at all.
I turn my WiFi and data usage off. Avoid websites. Tell people I do not want to know the results.
Simple really.
Me neither, i managed it, got up sunday, turned on the Xbox, didn't leave the house till monday morning when i went round the X's to watch the full skyF1 show she recorded for me.I turn my WiFi and data usage off. Avoid websites. Tell people I do not want to know the results.
Simple really.
And can i say as an Ex sky F1 veiwer and now fooking BBC veiwer, GOD I f
kING MISS SKY !!!!!BBC F1 is s
t, i'm "allmost" tempted to go back to the wife 
supertouring said:
Oh yes I can!
Putting up the qualifying results in an ad break during the qualifying re-run makes sense does it?
Oh, and as for getting up early, do me a favour - it is only F1
The results being shown during the re-run was exceptionally fPutting up the qualifying results in an ad break during the qualifying re-run makes sense does it?
Oh, and as for getting up early, do me a favour - it is only F1
king stupid and annoying to be fair.DJFish said:
lbc said:
If you don't want to know the results then don't look at any TV/Radio/News/Internet before watching the race. How difficult is that?
We get these same stupid posts every year.
Evidently fairly difficult if you live in the 25th century.We get these same stupid posts every year.
Couldn't agree more on your second point, that's the beauty of the internet.
Tony2or4 said:
Every year there will be new people who are caught out by thoughtless broadcaster spoilers: threads like this give them the opportunity to get the gripe off their chests.
We are often at a UK track when there is a GP on so some time is spent avoiding the results - usually also involving having to tell 20 others on the same radio channel that I will remove their balls with a 17mm spanner if they so much as mutter the result. That said we almost always manage to get home without finding out. Biggest issue is timing when to turn on R4 for the Archers but so as to miss the news at 7 (which is usually when we are just pulling out of the man gates).
Even the Mrs has learnt that Facebook must be avoided after the lights have turned green until we see the flag fall back home!
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