In the round-up: Marcus Ericsson is the latest Formula 1 driver to reveal an interest in moving to IndyCar.
What they say
Ericsson will be Sauber’s third driver next year but wants to keep racing:
I want to race in the highest level possible because I see myself coming back to Formula 1 in the future.
To be able to come back to F1, I want to stay in single-seaters and fast cars. IndyCar is the best series to do that in.
Quotes: Dieter Rencken
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Social media
Notable posts from Twitter, Instagram and more:
Trying to explain to NBC crew how my brother and I would ride a buggy down this hill in Montona, Italy, crashing into walls and scaring old ladies. I think some of the marks on these walls belong to me and Aldo. Documentary to air May 2019 pic.twitter.com/Py4oDsfOzx
— Mario Andretti (@MarioAndretti) October 4, 2018
Bon anniversaire papa. Je t'aime pic.twitter.com/GpxIa2lfgE
— Romain Grosjean (@RGrosjean) October 4, 2018
- Find more official F1 accounts to follow in the F1 Twitter Directory
Links
More motor racing links of interest:
Leclerc expects 'difficult weekend' because of Bianchi memories (BBC)
"I never came to Japan before. The track walk was quite emotional."
Canadian group led by Stroll paid $117 million for Force India (Reuters)
"The Silverstone-based team had only 240,000 pounds in its account on July 27 while outstanding gross wages due to be paid at the end of that month totalled 2.2 million pounds."
Sky TV fail in race to retain Formula 1 rights (Radio Sport (New Zealand))
"Sky will show the rest of the season, including this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix, but a drop in viewership here due in part to later start times in Europe, plus the showing of official highlights on social media, has forced a change in approach from the broadcaster."
Suzuka’s F1 sparkle remains as it gears up for a 30th Japanese GP (The Guardian)
"Three million people applied for tickets for the Prost-Senna rematch in 1990 and the sight of them filing out in almost complete silence after Jules Bianchi’s accident in 2014 was moving and unforgettable."
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Comment of the day
Ferrari is fooling no-one with ‘Mission Winnow’, says Jim:
We all know it’s just a made-up mission statement because the M and W mimic the Marlboro chevron. That’s why both words are italic.
Turn your screen 90 degrees anticlockwise to see the Marlboro logo.
This type of subliminal nonsense should be illegal, if not from a pure qualitative standpoint. At least the barcode logo of years gone made no subversion of it representing Marlboro.
Mission Winnow, right, the whole charade and statement is condescending to our intellect and cognitive ability.
Jim
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@HoHum (@hohum)
5th October 2018, 0:28
No laughing matter but one wonders why those fans who bought tickets in 1990 were still at the track 24 years later.
Phylyp (@phylyp)
5th October 2018, 3:08
@hohum – it is said the Japanese are passionate about F1 ;-)
rsp123 (@rsp123)
5th October 2018, 8:25
They weren’t. Japan gave up free to air F1 some years ago and interest in F1 has declined. You can buy a ticket today. F1 needs FTA like fish need water.
maiagus
5th October 2018, 0:39
Even worse about Mission Winnow is that the brand name and company name will be repeated all over the week.
Maybe a few kids have never seem those cool Marlboro ad before looking for what those old people are complaining about?
frood19 (@frood19)
5th October 2018, 7:02
It’s astonishing they can get away with it. Corruption at all levels, I suspect.
Derek Edwards
5th October 2018, 1:01
Comment Of The Day is absolutely spot on. Instead of some nonsensical rubbish like “Mission Winnow” they should just slap “Operation Marlboro” on their cars and claim special dispensation because of their historical value to Formula One.
BlackJackFan
5th October 2018, 10:13
Agree
anon
5th October 2018, 1:18
Clearly Ericsson wants to be a known as the most complete driver on the planet by winning a race in a domestic spec series…
Anthony Blears
5th October 2018, 1:21
Very happy Sky has lost the rights to F1 in New Zealand. We should get access to the full F1 TV package from next year.
Gerrit
5th October 2018, 1:29
You will still be paying for it if F1 is on the Spark network. Cant see any of the free to air channels fronting with the cash to screen F1 live.
Another problem is the volume of illegally streamed sports watched over the internet.
Sky did no service to the sports fanatic by making ALL sports so expensive and virtually forcing live sports fans to steam illegally.
With illegal sports streams quality now much better, I don’t know if those fans will go back to legal sports channels unless the price is super low.
Canderous (@yoshif8tures)
5th October 2018, 5:31
IVe watched F1 since 2001 and since the began selling the rights to pay tv I refuse to pay to watch on principle.
The pirate streams are also often better than the stream from FOMs new OTA service anyway.
I’d much rather save my money and attend a race.
ColdFly (@)
5th October 2018, 10:18
People will go back to legal ways of watching/listening to copyrighted stuff as soon as it becomes reasonably priced, available immediately and good quality (e.g. Netflix, Spotify, etc.)
VoiseyS (@voisey)
5th October 2018, 10:40
This. PayTv/Streaming on demand is the future of entertainment and in my view enhances the product offering. Cannot comment on the NZ situation but I would give 10 seasons of ITV’s coverage quality for just one of Sky TV’s. The level of investment, richness of content and engagement with the fan is leagues ahead of FTA providers, and it always will be.
Zim
5th October 2018, 1:42
The Mario Andretti documentary is looking like it’s going to be a good watch. Location shooting rather than just interviewing a guy in a chair.
Jere (@jerejj)
5th October 2018, 9:57
I agree with the COTD.
– Grosjean in the left image, though.