F1 Podium

[ff5317]

First time I've noticed that there are no labels on the bottles of bubbly the drivers get on the podium. How long has that been going on,and why? The last time they lost sponsorship of the bottles by a champagne producer they just stuck some other stuff up there, but left the labels on.

[MonkeyHanger]

The French have a ban on Alcohol advertising on TV IIRC.

[mybrainhurts]

MonkeyHanger said:

The French have a ban on Alcohol advertising on TV IIRC.

The FRENCH have...? WTF...?

[NickXX]

The French seem to ban most product placement on TV. Watching realty TV shows over there, you'll see blank labels over Coke cans, branded T-shirts, etc.

Edited by NickXX on Sunday 22 June 15:26

[sstein]

What happened to the press conference today?

[deadslow]

sstein said:

What happened to the press conference today?

Hamilton didn't win, so ITV lost interest.

[sstein]

That's what I thought

[Mojocvh]

Trulli got a wee bit emotional red guys droned as usual etc etc

[MonkeyHanger]

Mojocvh said:

Trulli got a wee bit emotional red guys droned as usual etc etc

So, yet another monotonous F1 press conference then. It's only worth listening when DC manages a top 3 finish as the rest of them can barely string a sentence together.

I can't see what all the fuss is about.

[mat205125]

deadslow said:

sstein said:

What happened to the press conference today?

Hamilton didn't win, so ITV lost interest.

Sadly likely to be true. The press conferences are often skipped, especially if there are 22 fairys preparing to mince around a field chasing a balloon.

[clonmult]

MonkeyHanger said:

Mojocvh said:

Trulli got a wee bit emotional red guys droned as usual etc etc

So, yet another monotonous F1 press conference then. It's only worth listening when DC manages a top 3 finish as the rest of them can barely string a sentence together.

I can't see what all the fuss is about.

The iceman is incredibly dull, but having DC on the podium guarantees at least some (dry) humour.

[jellison]

deadslow said:

sstein said:

What happened to the press conference today?

Hamilton didn't win, so ITV lost interest.

Hahaha Quality;) Average race - Glad Trulli did well though for the team and Ove.

[DSM2]

deadslow said:

sstein said:

What happened to the press conference today?

Hamilton didn't win, so ITV lost interest.

'The Cock' lost interest as soon as LH was given his drive through.

[woof]

DSM2 said:

deadslow said:

sstein said:

What happened to the press conference today?

Hamilton didn't win, so ITV lost interest.

'The Cock' lost interest as soon as LH was given his drive through.

The cock is actually a massive Ferrari fan - not sure if that makes him a bigger cock though or is that a back handed compliment ?!

[mattikake]

mat205125 said:

deadslow said:

sstein said:

What happened to the press conference today?

Hamilton didn't win, so ITV lost interest.

Sadly likely to be true. The press conferences are often skipped, especially if there are 22 fairys preparing to mince around a field chasing a balloon.

Agree. The LH show is becoming painful to watch, but that's how it always goes for home nations on F1 coverage.

The Beeb used to be far less biased and left it to Murray to do all the fanaticisms! Good on Murray though is he was pretty excited by all the drivers, not just the Brits, historically speaking.

[andyps]

mat205125 said:

The press conferences are often skipped, especially if there are 22 fairys preparing to mince around a field chasing a balloon.

I know I may be in the minority in not having the slightest interest in football, but it annoys me intensely that valuable time at the end of the F1 programme is spent telling me about the football programme coming up later. I suspect most fans know it is going to be on anyway, and yesterday they promoted the football for later this week and ignored the fact that ITV4 had the FIA GT championship on almost immeditaely after the F1.

[BoRED S2upid]

mattikake said:

mat205125 said:

deadslow said:

sstein said:

What happened to the press conference today?

Hamilton didn't win, so ITV lost interest.

Sadly likely to be true. The press conferences are often skipped, especially if there are 22 fairys preparing to mince around a field chasing a balloon.

Agree. The LH show is becoming painful to watch, but that's how it always goes for home nations on F1 coverage.

The Beeb used to be far less biased and left it to Murray to do all the fanaticisms! Good on Murray though is he was pretty excited by all the drivers, not just the Brits, historically speaking.

I couldn't believe what I was watching. They spent most of the race watching the last 2 cars racing each other just because LH mad messed up!.

Is this what F1 coverage is like in india?.

So ITV are just going to show the press conference when LH is in it from now on?.

[andyps]

BoRED S2upid said:

I couldn't believe what I was watching. They spent most of the race watching the last 2 cars racing each other just because LH mad messed up!.

Is this what F1 coverage is like in india?.

So ITV are just going to show the press conference when LH is in it from now on?.

I don't think ITV have any say at all about the choice of pictures, they get a feed which is controlled by the race TV director. They do choose when to drop the ad breaks in though.

At least Lewis was racing. I think the coverage was pretty good yesterday, concetrating on the on track battles going on rather than watching cars just going round and round on their own. I guess Marlboro didn't get good value for money yesterday though.

[skwdenyer]

andyps said:

BoRED S2upid said:

I couldn't believe what I was watching. They spent most of the race watching the last 2 cars racing each other just because LH mad messed up!.

Is this what F1 coverage is like in india?.

So ITV are just going to show the press conference when LH is in it from now on?.

I don't think ITV have any say at all about the choice of pictures, they get a feed which is controlled by the race TV director. They do choose when to drop the ad breaks in though.

At least Lewis was racing. I think the coverage was pretty good yesterday, concetrating on the on track battles going on rather than watching cars just going round and round on their own. I guess Marlboro didn't get good value for money yesterday though.

It used to be that the "host broadcaster" controlled the coverage at each race, so the French GP coverage would mostly favour the French entrants, and so on. These days, I believe, it is FOM's TV operation which controls the feed at every race, the idea being to ensure even-handed coverage.

Yesterday's race seemed to bear this out - it was good to watch those who were actually racing, as opposed to "merely" those at the front.

[Nicholas Blair]

woof said:

DSM2 said:

deadslow said:

sstein said:

What happened to the press conference today?

Hamilton didn't win, so ITV lost interest.

'The Cock' lost interest as soon as LH was given his drive through.

The cock is actually a massive Ferrari fan - not sure if that makes him a bigger cock though or is that a back handed compliment ?!

Either way, he is still an A1 cock.