Channel 7 Coverage - Page 3

racer69 · 13 Oct 2009, 02:31 (Ref:2560313)

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Originally Posted by 1200Datto27

Did anyone else notice that he essentially confirmed that he was The Stig with his comment about driving all of the GT cars at a group test at Paul Richard?

Wasn't that more to do with him saying he had driven all the GT3 homologated cars, perhaps in a capacity as the "parity" test driver for the GT3 European Championship, which is done to ensure the cars are all equal for that series?

They would do that at Paul Ricard, however i can't remember a Top Gear episode featuring Paul Ricard.

mac · 13 Oct 2009, 02:54 (Ref:2560321)

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Originally Posted by racer69

They would do that at Paul Ricard, however i can't remember a Top Gear episode featuring Paul Ricard.

There was a feature in a Top Gear magazine edition a while back about The Stig driving all of the FIA GT3 championship cars at Paul Ricard...

rich07 · 13 Oct 2009, 03:08 (Ref:2560324)

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Originally Posted by racer69

Wasn't that more to do with him saying he had driven all the GT3 homologated cars, perhaps in a capacity as the "parity" test driver for the GT3 European Championship, which is done to ensure the cars are all equal for that series?

They would do that at Paul Ricard, however i can't remember a Top Gear episode featuring Paul Ricard.

That was for the magazine not the tv show and Im pretty sure he's not the parity driver for FIA GT3, I think a Belgian driver is. French ace and Le Mans winner Christophe Bouchut used to be a test driver, not sure if he did that this year though.

toby · 13 Oct 2009, 03:36 (Ref:2560328)

Tend to agree with lot of what is said here, but I guess the ads are a necessary evil.

What ****es me off is the lack of coverage for a lot of the cars, sure I expect that the leaders should get the best coverage but I am sure the Director of the coverage must be on the Vodafone payroll.

How many times did we see the Bottle-O car, the Fujitsu development series cars, Kitten car, 2nd PCR car, the list goes on. No wonder some of the teams struggle to get and keep sponsors. If V8SC were smart some of these cars with newly acquired sponsors would be given special treatment to keep the sponsors happy and maybe make them want to stay in the category.

Was the Dodo (Jack Perkins) car even in the race and he had new sponsors for the weekend, but how many times did we see Murphs brake disc glowing.

DAVID PATERSON · 13 Oct 2009, 04:14 (Ref:2560337)

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Originally Posted by toby

What ****es me off is the lack of coverage for a lot of the cars, sure I expect that the leaders should get the best coverage but How many times did we see the Bottle-O car, the Fujitsu development series cars, Kitten car, 2nd PCR car, the list goes on. No wonder some of the teams struggle to get and keep sponsors. If V8SC were smart some of these cars with newly acquired sponsors would be given special treatment to keep the sponsors happy and maybe make them want to stay in the category.

Good idea, the sport will suffer if the little teams don't get enough airtime to please their sponsors.

Does anybody not think that every second Tom Williams was on air was a complete, utter waste of time?

Worst moment of the telecast was crossing to Larko's tech centre in the middle of the Biante race. Absolutely appalling!!! I like Larko's tech centre, but surely it's a great way to fill in the many long gaps between races........... Just as frustrating was completly missing the lead change so we could watch Richo driving by himself.

Kingair · 13 Oct 2009, 04:18 (Ref:2560338)

No problems with the Channel 7 coverage, just don't need the celebrity reporters on race day.

The top ten shoot-out wasn't as well done this year for some reason.

It could be worse if Channel 9 did it you would have big Darryl Eastlake calling the race backed up by Richie Benaud, and then we would cross to Scott Cam for a Backyard Blitz for your Bathurst weekend and that would be folowed by Catriona Roundmelons looking at Bathurst for your next holiday!

If the ABC did it, the commentary team would be made of two NSW ALP members, a gay aboriginal, a lesbian, a greenie with a PHD and two cameramen that don't work on Sundays as part of their EBA agreement. In between any racing shown that was environmentally friendly, would be the usual ABC promos for some show, book or DVD!

If SBS did it, the commentary would be in German with English subtitles and carry an R rating.

Tourer · 13 Oct 2009, 04:56 (Ref:2560345)

Kingair, that gets my vote for post of the year!!!!!!

ROFPML

Brilliant, simply brilliant (& like most good comedy, REALLY funny coz it's pretty true)

Crash Test · 13 Oct 2009, 08:10 (Ref:2560406)

A bit of whining about the lack of coverage for the wild cards.

Hrmm, how many times did you see Walter slamming into the wall, and for that matter, all of the Jesus crashes were shown many times over, even being features on all of the networks nightly news. The 2nd Fujitsu car copped a bit of coverage when it was being lapped, and at one stage it was followed for a few corners as the main focus of the coverage. Not bad for wobbling around in effectively last place.

TSR · 13 Oct 2009, 08:18 (Ref:2560414)

It was a better than average coverage, like the Rusty stuff and the pit stuff with LARKO ( but the jibes between the commentators is getting a bit old ).New camera angles were good. But the last 10 laps was overkill, to the point were I turned down the sounds.

So over all 75/100

toby · 13 Oct 2009, 08:24 (Ref:2560420)

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Originally Posted by Crash Test

A bit of whining about the lack of coverage for the wild cards.

Hrmm, how many times did you see Walter slamming into the wall, and for that matter, all of the Jesus crashes were shown many times over, even being features on all of the networks nightly news. The 2nd Fujitsu car copped a bit of coverage when it was being lapped, and at one stage it was followed for a few corners as the main focus of the coverage. Not bad for wobbling around in effectively last place.

But what about the guys that didn't crash!

Crash Test · 13 Oct 2009, 09:10 (Ref:2560447)

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Originally Posted by toby

But what about the guys that didn't crash!

Who were they?!

sizzle · 14 Oct 2009, 03:05 (Ref:2560983)

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Originally Posted by toby

Was the Dodo (Jack Perkins) car even in the race and he had new sponsors for the weekend, but how many times did we see Murphs brake disc glowing.

Bet 24/7 clashed with with V8bet.com

retro · 14 Oct 2009, 04:28 (Ref:2561000)

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Originally Posted by toby

Tend to agree with lot of what is said here, but I guess the ads are a necessary evil.

What ****es me off is the lack of coverage for a lot of the cars, sure I expect that the leaders should get the best coverage but I am sure the Director of the coverage must be on the Vodafone payroll.

How many times did we see the Bottle-O car, the Fujitsu development series cars, Kitten car, 2nd PCR car, the list goes on. No wonder some of the teams struggle to get and keep sponsors. If V8SC were smart some of these cars with newly acquired sponsors would be given special treatment to keep the sponsors happy and maybe make them want to stay in the category.

Was the Dodo (Jack Perkins) car even in the race and he had new sponsors for the weekend, but how many times did we see Murphs brake disc glowing.

Good work by ZigZag/Slugo to miss Jack...

Langers · 28 Oct 2009, 01:18 (Ref:2571101)

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Originally Posted by Steve Carter

Having watched coverage of this event since the day dot I thought today was excellent - the elevation was covered better (anyone who has ridden or driven around the mount will know its such a steep climb/decent) - all the presenters were pretty much on the mark - yes I had a slight problem with Matt White getting over excited and some lame stuff from Tom what's his name in the lead up - but guys it held my attention all day - a classic Bathurst in my view it had everything.

Yea that fluff rubbish from the non-car dude should have been cut.

Other than that, I thought it was pretty bloody good actually!

Oldtony · 28 Oct 2009, 06:31 (Ref:2571174)

Yep! he coverage of Bathurst was good, so good in fact that the used replays of it to fill a very large proportion of Surfers.
I know that the loss of the A1GP cars was a scheduling problem but there were all sorts of other things to cover even if they recorded things like the Utes and Aussie racers and used them on delay.
I suppose the team did the best they could with interpreting some of the shambolic decision making but I'm not sure if the director had a real handle on which camera shots to use live because we usualy ended up with the best view of the action on replay.
Still the VESA production crew did a pretty good job bu some of the imported Ch7 "personalities" are a bit of a drag on the entertainment value.

mac · 28 Oct 2009, 23:19 (Ref:2571735)

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Originally Posted by Oldtony

I know that the loss of the A1GP cars was a scheduling problem but there were all sorts of other things to cover even if they recorded things like the Utes and Aussie racers and used them on delay.

Not if they don't pay Tony $3.7 squillion for the privilege...

Ricky Bobby · 29 Oct 2009, 02:34 (Ref:2571790)

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Originally Posted by Langers

Yea that fluff rubbish from the non-car dude should have been cut.

Other than that, I thought it was pretty bloody good actually!

Yeah so do I. I especially enjoyed the hours and hours of adverts during the coverage.

xr8 · 29 Oct 2009, 07:48 (Ref:2571841)

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Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby

Yeah so do I. I especially enjoyed the hours and hours of adverts during the coverage.

Yeah! I quite enjoyed watching race 4 of the aussie racing cars in pit lane on the big screen with just one camera turned on displaying the pit straight. The othe camera would switch to filming the spectators and all the rest were just turned off!
Now I feel real sorry for the people that paid squillions to be in corporate boxes and were watching there monitors only to be denied seeing the most entertaining racing at the track.
Good on ya seven! Talk about cutting your nose off just to spite your face!

racer69 · 29 Oct 2009, 07:52 (Ref:2571845)

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Originally Posted by xr8

Yeah! I quite enjoyed watching race 4 of the aussie racing cars in pit lane on the big screen with just one camera turned on displaying the pit straight. The othe camera would switch to filming the spectators and all the rest were just turned off!
Now I feel real sorry for the people that paid squillions to be in corporate boxes and were watching there monitors only to be denied seeing the most entertaining racing at the track.
Good on ya seven! Talk about cutting your nose off just to spite your face!

What does any of that have to do with Channel 7???

It is V8TV who does all the filming and production.

xr8 · 29 Oct 2009, 08:09 (Ref:2571851)

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Originally Posted by racer69

What does any of that have to do with Channel 7???

It is V8TV who does all the filming and production.

Yeah, OK your right! Sorry! So good onya V* TV Then!

Ricky Bobby · 30 Oct 2009, 16:27 (Ref:2572596)

I just sick and tired of all the ads being rudely interupted by the racing.
I don't care who's responsible.
It's just got to stop!!!

Driver TBA · 30 Oct 2009, 21:21 (Ref:2572722)

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Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby

I just sick and tired of all the ads being rudely interupted by the racing.
I don't care who's responsible.
It's just got to stop!!!

Someone over at another forum with way to much spare time was converting their VHS bathurst videos to DVD.

He found out the following.

The average length between ad breaks in 1990 was 11:51 mins

The average length between ad breaks in 2009 was 11:46 mins

28 ad breaks in 1990 and 27 in 2009.

STEALTHY · 31 Oct 2009, 00:27 (Ref:2572780)

But its 100 times better without the ad's. I re-watched the whole 6 hour race a second time without the ad's.

Ricky Bobby · 31 Oct 2009, 03:33 (Ref:2572818)

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Originally Posted by Driver TBA

Someone over at another forum with way to much spare time was converting their VHS bathurst videos to DVD.

An anorak I suspect.

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Originally Posted by Driver TBA

He found out the following.

The average length between ad breaks in 1990 was 11:51 mins

The average length between ad breaks in 2009 was 11:46 mins

28 ad breaks in 1990 and 27 in 2009.

Interesting stats.
Still think there are way too many ads.
Does the gAFL get interrupted by ads during the game. Anyone?

Ricky Bobby · 31 Oct 2009, 03:34 (Ref:2572819)

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Originally Posted by STEALTHY

But its 100 times better without the ad's. I re-watched the whole 6 hour race a second time without the ad's.

Totally agree

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