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I was dreading F1 going to SKY and the thought of not being able to see live F1 left me feeling sick. But having had endless adverts, billboards, flyers in magazines, ect rammed in my face everywhere i turned, I caved in and got the cheapest HD package available and in all honesty I haven’t regretted getting it at all. Having just watched both SKY’s and BBC’s coverage of Qualifying, I have to say I enjoyed the SKY coverage more (though in all fairness to the beeb I can’t make a genuine comparison until they have a live race weekend). In 2009 BBC were a tad ropey in certain areas but went from strength to strength and delivered great shows and I think SKY will do the same because at the moment they are trying a bit to hard to give it the big ‘wow factor’ with the pre-advert stat stuff and the ‘skypad’ thing. The presenting team seems to be ok and i’m sure over time will be accepted once we’re more familiar with them. Probably the best bit is the practice session coverage is given the full pre-build up and analyzed as though it was a qualifying session which the Beeb could never do due to it being on the red button.

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