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20 May 2002, 14:02 (Ref:290436) | #1 | ||
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Power Tour TV - They have to be joking, right?
I just made the mistake of watching a bit of Ch 10's Power Tour coverage from Oran Park - NASCAR's (or whatever they call them now...)
That has to be some of teh WORST camera work I have ever seen. 3 cameras around the track by the look of it...one long shot from the main straight as two cars head down the hill, about to overtake - so what do they do? Back the shot off and pan to the leading two cars which are about 4-5 car lengths apart from each other and miss the other two dicing! Spins caught half way through, or the start and then cut to something else. And, when I first saw it, I thought the footage was 20-30 years old the colours are so out of whack with reality - that faded red look you see in old home movies... Someone needs their areses kicking for the shots, the post production and the overall quality. |
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20 May 2002, 14:06 (Ref:290438) | #2 | ||
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glad its not just me then thought my eyesite had gone out to lunch
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20 May 2002, 21:47 (Ref:290874) | #3 | ||
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I've taped it and tried to watch it a few times but I just couldn't wear it. I found even the sound quality was sub par.
PROCAR moving to SBS has been a good thing but it looks like it's been at great expense to Powertour. |
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20 May 2002, 23:18 (Ref:290938) | #4 | |
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I like how the track looked blue, the dirt purple and any dust coming up was green.
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20 May 2002, 23:23 (Ref:290944) | #5 | ||
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Hehe - I thought I had my coloured glasses on
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20 May 2002, 23:36 (Ref:290951) | #6 | ||
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Is this from last night's telecast ? I think I taped it I'll have to check it out. I have heaps of tapes I have to catch up on. This sounds pretty funny though if the colours are that out of whack.
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20 May 2002, 23:37 (Ref:290953) | #7 | ||
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A race in colour.
How was the commentary, with Sharna? |
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20 May 2002, 23:38 (Ref:290954) | #8 | ||
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Who actualy produced it?
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21 May 2002, 07:17 (Ref:291135) | #9 | ||
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10 cent telecast
The trucks, Nascars and Commodore Cup cars all look like fun to punt around but I do hope the Motorsport Promoters can find some more money for the vision
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21 May 2002, 07:33 (Ref:291143) | #10 | ||
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To be honest I think it needs more than that. The NASCAR's (what ARE they calling them now????) on last nights telecast appeared to only have about half a dozen cars - actually not far off - 8 (just checked the results for the races that weekend which, btw, was March 24...not bad - 7 week delay on televising it).
And, for the second year in a row, I notice that the Power Tour have scheduled a race meeting against a Victorian State Race Meeting (Calder/Sandown) in June although I have heard a whisper today that the Sandown round is being moved a week. Still doesn't excuse WHY the POwer Tour has to select dates which have usually already been allocated (like last year inNovember - except the Power Tour's argument was that they were a National Championship and had first pick of the date....pity they chose a date that had been used that weekend for the past TEN years by Island Magic....) |
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21 May 2002, 07:38 (Ref:291148) | #11 | ||
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The Commodore Cup cars are the the only good thing on the program. Close racing with a bit of BIFFO.
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21 May 2002, 07:39 (Ref:291149) | #12 | ||
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The Motorsport Promoters Group will run events whenever they choose as they have always shown nothing more than arrogance towards any other party
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21 May 2002, 07:44 (Ref:291151) | #13 | ||
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Their last round, the day night meeting at Oran Park clashes wih the Bathurst 24 hour also, although to be fair the 24 hour was announced after.
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21 May 2002, 11:56 (Ref:291360) | #14 | ||
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I think you're being a bit harsh on the MPG - it's not easy to schedule 8 rounds, evenly spread to lessen the burden on competitors, and make it all fit amongst 10 or 12 V8 Supercar events, 8 PROCAR events, 5 Konica events plus the AGP, Bathurst etc. and then that's all subject to circuit availability.
Maybe sometimes they don't have any alternative than to 'drop' a round on top of a club-level meeting. PROCAR seems to think it's OK to drop their 24-hour event on top of the Powertour Oran Park day-nighter (does anyone know if CAMS have actually approved it? The press release CAMS issued about it was very carefully worded and didn't actually say they were OK about it.) |
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21 May 2002, 13:02 (Ref:291439) | #15 | ||
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Elwood - the MPG don't give a rats what meetings theirs clash with - as far as they are concerned, they are a National Championship and they come first - I still have the emails here telling me that.
This is not the first time they have clashed one of their events with a long standing race run on a particular weekend. Again - they don't care what damage they may do to officials morale and general well being. However, I side with them in relation to the November clash - they WERE there first and ProCar are - in this instance - the usurpers |
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21 May 2002, 13:46 (Ref:291509) | #16 | ||
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well, i havnt seen it yet, but it usualy is shocking
dont they understand that outside of car cameras r meant to have the microphone INSIDE the car, not out where it gets all the wind noise, they are hopeless |
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I watched about the first ten minutes of the Monday night coverage last night till I could watch no more. It honestly looked like watching an old mpg file on your desk top. I don't think I've ever seen such shonky vision on ANY TV program ever.
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