Hi,
I would agree with what has been said above about the sport being for a certain type of viewer.
I have been watching F1 since Raymond Baxter was doing the commentary, quite a long time ago now.
I would admit to saying on here, in the past, I had found it boring compaired to Moto GP, because when you see a bike rider you see it all, the rider fully, not just a helmet, ok you do see the steering wheel now and again, in Moto GP you can see the skill of the rider at 200mph braking hard and going up on one wheel the bike sliding around corners, it is that type of action to some extent what is missing in F1.
(if that all makes sense.)
What might be good would be more in cockpit action, I think a few years ago did they not have a camera inside the footwell showing the feet and what was going on there, maybe now less relevant? The way the cameras are positioned now at times it looks like a video game, I remember seeing in car action, cannot remember what racing, where the camera was able to be moved around and was at helmet level rather than looking down. Maybe of course there are plans in the pipeline for more active cameras like this.
I also enjoy the whole spectacle of the Sky coverage, not just the racing, they do try their best to cover as many aspects as possible, I even like Ted's Notebook!
One thing I think I have been lucky in is that the drivers I liked to follow over the years all have been race winners, and being Scottish we have had a few good drivers that were race winners and yes I like Lewis, he is just something else. In fact there are few of the current drivers if any that I don't enjoy watching race or hearing what they say before or after a race. It might be interesting to have a poll to see which drivers are liked the most and which are lower down the list
The current drivers all seem very good, I think there are a few who given a good car would be far higher up the grid than they currently are.
Yesterdays race was very good, sat through all Friday/Saturday/Sunday Sky coverage, I think it just needs some way of showing how much skill there is in driving a F1 car, something like you can see in Moto GP, how that could be achieved I am not sure, however if it was I think there would be less viewers saying that a race was boring.
Cheers
John
PS, I will wait for the flak now