thestig84 wrote:
It is now 1.1b Anyway it its a good service and should be kept. If you dont like it you dont have to use it. It never claimed to display all radio traffic. It is a way of keeping up with the race (like the live timing) from Mclarens view, maybe if you dont have tv access. They describe the race and provide info telemetry and webcam shots of the garage. Radio transmissions add to the info.
Its great to see a F1 team opening up. How can you expect them to put every bit of info up, a lot is boring anyway. I dont see any other teams offering open services like this.
Always someone ready to limp-in and defend those that are looking to make a monkey out of them. They tried to misrepresent the facts and make you look foolish. Some weird variation of Stockholm Syndrome or something I guess.
Insulting our inteligence with that clearly redundant and not fit for purpose endeavour, v1.0, v1.1, wake-me up when it hits 3.0 and stops trying to so blatently pull the wool over our eyes, or treat us like dopes.
Do it ... or don't do it ... but don't waste people's time with a half-hearted, bland fiction of a PR nonsense.
What did they achieve by serving-up to their most active fans crude misinformation and a redacted, glossed-over mis-summary of the facts as they (and the guy in the FOM TV truck) knew them to be. Did they learn nothing from Ryan, the tapes will always get out. Attempts at obfuscation or post-race pitwall spin will always come undone.
The commentary provided is pretty lightweight, the telemetry numbers come heavily smeared via a random-number generator and are shorn of all context or comparison, pretty useless. And now we know for certain, the summary of radio-traffic is partial, minimal, deceptive and sub-standard.
I've got live streams and live-timing on the go, I can't afford to waste laptop-screen real-estate or valuable CPU clocks on something now proven in broad daylight to be utterly pointless.
For shame, they had the chance to do something right, do something good, be open, treat supporters with a modicum of respect, but too frightened, too timid, too corporate, they fumbled it. Outed as a pointless sham of service, it'll not be missed. They did it to themselves.
That's why I don't bother with it anymore. OK, you apparently seem quite content with it, so you stick with it, kept in the dark and actively deceived ... I'll just wait for something a bit nearer the truth to emerge a week or so later in a 3 and half minute pop-video. Like I say, shame.
Ignore Bernie, stream the audio, Mr Whitmarsh, you have nothing to fear. A bit of daylight will do wonders.
Horner had no button to speak to the drivers and had to make all his calls through the race engineers. How dumb is that? When Horner told Pilbeam to tell Webber not to fight Vettel's pass the guy simply ignored the order and told Webber a coded signal that meant "push the overtaking button". 
