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+1. The dreaded ‘full Sky Sports treatment’. Awful.

What with work, family and other commitments, there’s only so much time most people have to watch F1. Qualifying, pre-race build-up, the race, post-race analysis, with a few technical segments/interviews thrown in […]

Anyone know if Sky Go Monthly is available outside the UK? Is the sports stuff blocked to non-UK IP addresses?

OK, Sky will tempt some of the BBC hardcore F1 fans with their coverage of the 10 races but a lot of casual viewers who will not pay will drop out. A highlights programme will not compensate for the drop in […]

Sorry but I don’t agree. On the BBC show this year we had useful features. For example, Martin Brundle talking about tyres for a 10-minute segment. This kind of thing is what the BBC does really well, expalining […]

sharing a brundle/dc commentary between sky and bbc wouldn’t work because presumably brundle would be contractually obliged to repeat incessantly ‘live and exclusive on Sky Sports’ or such like every 5 minutes. […]

I don’t mind paying something to watch F1, but I do object to having to subscribe to Sky for the purpose and have to pay for all of the Sky c**p just to get F1, which would cost me north of £500 per year. Bundling […]