F1 - Let the season begin

[d000hg]

I said small. As in small budget, small organisation.

Brawn and Red Bull have big budgets and 100+ staff.

They were still tiny compared to the big teams, and Brawn was a privately owned team (I think).

[Doggy Styles]

They were still tiny compared to the big teams, and Brawn was a privately owned team (I think).

Marussia are smallish, but not those other two. Red Bull is owned and financed by a billionaire and his company, and Brawn bought out and inherited the Honda team (who dropped out late), and stuck a Mercedes engine in their latest car. After one year they went the whole hog and became Mercedes.

I'm talking about the huge cost now, it's all big corporate and not a lot of soul. You need at least 50 million to start, plus another 50 million a year. The names of Hesketh, Penske and Wolf all disappeared from F1.

[lilelvis2000]

WHy bother - just hand that vettie chap the title and red cow the championship now. Save everyone from having a 2 hour nap in the afternoon and watch Minder instead.

[norrahe]

Is W*nker Williams* still in it?


As he was so familiarly known several decades ago.

Yep, they have a Senna racing for them again.

[centurian]

Wifey is nagging to get Sky Sports so she can watch it - don't really see the attraction in watching cars whizzing around a race track - I suggested the money would be better spent on a subscription to the Adult channels...didn't go down too well!

You don't need Sky Sports if you don't want the rest of the sporty things, just Sky HD to get F1.

Oh hang on, it was the wife that wanted to watch the F1.

[Freamon]

I refuse to give Bernie / Murdoch any money so I will be watching on sopcast or justin.tv.

[Bunk]

Wifey is nagging to get Sky Sports so she can watch it - don't really see the attraction in watching cars whizzing around a race track - I suggested the money would be better spent on a subscription to the Adult channels...didn't go down too well!

Nah, don't get the adult channels either. They're rubbish in the UK. Stick to the internet, that's what it's there for.

[thelurker]

the HD footage on sky looks immense,

[Freamon]

the HD footage on sky looks immense,

Immensely expensive, you mean?

It was in HD last year on BBC...