flyboy2160 wrote:Varsha not only has a whiny voice, he, just like the master hypster john gruden on monday night football, hypes every race as "the one every driver wants to win" or "the most historic" or "crucial" or "the turning point." after listening to him since he started with speed, i've never heard him say "the drivers think this is a mickey mouse circuit."
Actually, he does say things like that. You just haven't listened to it enough, or at all, to hear him say that. No surprise really given everything else you say is wrong with him. He's much less worse (and better) than every British TV crew fawning over Lewis, and I couldn't stand listening to anything that James Allan was involved in. Even his website is full of that crap. After Kimi stopped being the front runner, he quit gobbing that knob and went over to Lewis. Every third word out of his mouth was "Lewis" and it was so annoying I wanted to reach through the TV and slap him.
flyboy2160 wrote:Hobbs is just too old. when did he last drive, if ever, in f1? 1960? before the big ground effect era? how can he professionally comment on driving a modern f1 car? brundle and coulthard and herbert and ant and hill have much, much better knowledge. and they don't rave on and on and on about the "klag" rubber buildup.
McLaren had him very high up on his list of best drivers they've ever employed, so I think he's very relevant. Besides, he's got more F1 (driving) experience than some of the BBC/Sky crew so I think his opinion is very valid. How many race cars have Kravitz, Thompson, Pinkham, Humphries and others driven? None. Not at that level anyway. By your logic about half of the BBC/Sky crews have no valid opinion either. Having a racer, no matter what age, is good for the fans because even though they may not be current, they at least have an understanding of what it takes to race them. His klag thing is a schtick that brings a little humor into the broadcast, I don't mind it because he's not annoying by being unfunny.
flyboy2160 wrote:Matchett is too geeky and he's not really an engineer. wasn't he a mechanic? he keeps going on and on about the sector times and guesses about car problems instead of getting facts.
I never thought I'd see someone say that having too much knowledge about a sport would be a bad thing. I've never watched any English broadcast that didn't have the commentators talking about sector times and the goings on of other drivers the entire time. That point has zero validity. He never claims (and never has claimed) to be an engineer, but I dare say unlike you he's on a first name basis with the vast majority of them in the pit lane. He knows what the cars are doing, what they are capable of, and what they are doing to make them work better. He's got more than enough reason to talk like he does, because he was lead mechanic for a WCC winning team, he's got no reason to back off talking about anything he does, he knows the ins and outs of those cars far better than you or I do.
flyboy2160 wrote:Compared to the sky on-site support guys (except for the lisping know-nothing woman) ant, herbert, hill, etc., will buxton sounds like the xyz generation version of the village idiot/talking head know nothing newshound/text phone surfer dude.
Will Buxton has been in the F1 paddock, and lower series, for many years. He's also the GP2 official commentator I think, he's not just some Joe Blow moron with a broadcasting degree brought in to fill a seat. He's not just some commentator that was switched from another sport within the Speed/Fox conglomerate. He knows what the hell he is talking about, and he's very good friends with quite a few of the drivers. Those friendships give him an inside look at the paddock, so I don't know where you get the idea he's just some "bro" with a microphone.
flyboy2160 wrote:and hobbs, varsha, and matchett aren't even at the track!!! are they even in the same studio in atlanta or do they each watch at home?
No, they aren't. Speed can't afford to send them all to each race to cover a sport that doesn't have a ton of commercial viability in the US that is broadcast at all hours of the night. They are all in the same studio in Charlotte NC. This has nothing to do with their knowledge of the sport, or their usefulness to broadcast the races in the US. Holding the fact they aren't sent to the races against them makes no sense, they do best with what they are given.
flyboy2160 wrote:i'm with pup: good riddance to them all. and if they don't leave, i still have the mute button. and yes, i know somebody here will quip back "and they will mute YOU!"
Personal preferences aside, the fact that you that don't like the Speed crew shows that you don't know a damn thing about any of them. You are just as ignorant of their credentials as Pup is, and they do a very good job with the limited budget and resources they are given. If you don't like them as people that's your prerogative, but calling them crap isn't justified with the reasons you give. They have far more experience in Formula 1 than you or I will likely ever have. Their professional credentials aren't in question at all.
(sorry for being an ass)
