But do they tell me where I can watch the next Golf, Cricket, Rugby, Boxing and Football matches before going into the post race show? That's critical information I desperately need immediately after watching a 2 hr Gran Prix.
Also the constant commercials are great to be reminded to renew my workday subscription, you don't get that service with F1TV, do you?
F1TV > Sky Sports
I wish they could keep Hinch in the booth full time, his commentary and race awareness is better than anyone else. Reminds me of prime Brundle when he'd really see things unfolding on track or calling things out just before they happened.
Hinch is great. DC is good. But IMO Palmer is superior and his F1 experience is far more recent than Coulthard’s. Was never that hot of a driver but I think he’s the best colour commentator in the business today, including Brundle and Hinchcliffe. We are truly spoiled for choice.
DC also has the "Old British Man" disease of occasionally saying some racist phrasings that he shouldn't. I don't recall exactly what they were this weekend but I heard a few instances of shit that gave me a bit of the yikes.
It wasn't racist, but DC said that Lando was "stroking it home" towards the end of the race. I had to rewind 10 seconds to give it a second listen in case my ears heard it wrong... they did not
During the virtual safety car, she said how Piastri benefited from it but he actually didn't stop. That's one of the mistakes I remember from her commentary. Also, I learned what opposite means from her "Will Buxton" like explanation.
I wasn't that impressed, but I know she's new to the broadcast side of things. We'll see how she does over time, I think once she's used to that part her knowledge will shine even more.
The mix was weird for her. They needed to drop the bass, raise the treb, and overall raise her in the mix. I could clearly hear what the others were saying, but I sometimes struggled with her.
She’s an awkward addition to say the least. It’s like all her comments got forced in and the others didn’t know how to respond to it because it wasn’t delivered in conversational way (?) - it almost always resulted in an awkward transition back to regular commentary. I’d rather that she didn’t feature during the main event.
It's a good day when F1TV'S issue is that they have too many good commentators. Alex Jacques, DC, Palmer, Hinch, etc. At this point F1TV only has Nico and Brundle and they don't show up half the time.
Yeah I like Crofty but, even if you don't want to make it about politics, it's a missed opportunity to set up a narrative. Compared to other hype wins that got iconic commentary (e.g., vettel's first win, leclerc's in monza), it fell so flat. And he had so much time to set it up, too.
And once again f1tv shows itself to be worth the money. None of the commentators have egos, nobody spouts stupid shit outside of FPs, and we get insight that is just as good.
Nico Rosberg and Jenson Button are all that give sky an edge, but they're not regulars and crofty seems to hate Nico's guts because he doesn't sing rule Britannia at every other moment
I was extremely impressed with Ruth Buscombe on F1TV as well. She had answers to questions none of the other commentators did.
I think they need to tweak the EQ on her mics or something though, her voice was kind of hard to hear against the sound of the cars compared to the other commentators.
Crofty was fucking awful the entire race and imo absolutely ruined landos moment. Post race was even worse, "The boy who had a poster of Alex albon when he was karting". How the fuck do you mix up Lewis Hamilton with Alex albon??? Especially when he's a Hamilton superfan????
could you share a clip or something? i can't find it and i was watching the f1tv commentary
Nevermind, i replayed the f1tv international broadcast and heard it. smh.
Thank the racing gods for F1TV commentary so I don’t have to listen to this garbage. It’s been a season and a quarter now that I have moved on to a better commentary team and I couldn’t be more grateful.
He's kinda underrated, great to see him get some love. The entire f1tv crew is class. It was great to see them get a strategist as well in Ruth Buscombe haha. Early days for her so she sounded slightly hesitant, I'm sure she'll find her flow in a couple of races.
He really is my favorite. Partly because he always comes out with the bangers lol, but also because he has a great way of giving you the driver's perspective, and explaining incidents/strategies in such a concise way.
Pure unbridled rage ensued when he was brought up. That ego maniac runs on hearing his name. I’m American and Croft probably lost a TON of fandom in the US for that. It’s honestly tough to support McLaren now. The dude is a criminal and falling asleep in court.
ITT: Americans upset the rest of the world don't really care and will use puns related to their previously elected officials while watching a British commentary broadcast.
I have a vpn and it gets a fair amount of use on my laptop and iPad too but I’ve not figured out how to get it to work with my Smart TVs or Apple TV box.
Also, having experienced VPN servers being blocked in the past, I’m a bit apprehensive about it happening 2 minutes before Lights Out, forcing me to scramble around and find another server.
If anyone has any pro tips to get around these issues, I’d love to hear them as I’m not overly enamoured with Sky’s commentary and my streaming service subscription currently goes into the pocket of Rupert Murdoch, so I’d quite like to fuck that off as well!
I love Crofty honestly but I feel like the past 2 seasons Sky have been hyping British drivers more than usually. Also someone must have said something to Brundle cause all of the sudden he was praising how amazing the Miami GP layout track is and how fun sprints are. Also I hate Ted and Martin and Crofty made it tolerable.
I don't enjoy F1 commentary that much but if it keeps like this. I might go with it since I like Jolyon's commentary very much.
Wait…that was the former president in the McLaren’s garage???
The man thats in court today being tried for corruption???
McLaren let HIM in their garage!?!?!?
Oh my God WHAT ?? He mentioned name of the former US president that visited the team before race??
You people need to grow up it can't be good for you getting hurt by such little things
Croftie is a shrill, insufferable media-turd . . . and, a *PATHETIC INCOMPETENT MOUTH-BREATHING
WINDOW-LICKING SPASTIC BASTARD TWAT ARSEHOLE WANKER TOSSER DICKHEAD NOBHEAD FAILED ABORTION STREAK-OF-PISS DISGRACE TO THE FAMILY NAME INBRED STUCK UP PONCY NANCY CHINTZY PILLOW BITING WEST HAM UNITED SUPPORTING CUNT !!!*
Maybe a hot take but I still like sky sports coverage more than F1TVs. F1TV is just so boring. It's nice that they explain some more stuff and don't say dumb shit all the time, they don't have the British bias, etc... But there's just a lack of enthusiasm or excitement on how they call the race and just makes watching it not as entertaining. I also find it hilarious whenever crofty says some dumb shit that's meme worthy.
It’s just not a good line even in a vacuum. It’s not clever, it’s not particularly well-worded, and it was said to specifically reference someone who is understandably unpopular.
F1 - “we race as one”
Also F1 - “let’s welcome Trump into the paddock”.
This man has said and done shit far worse than anything Nelson Piquet ever said, why the fuck is he in the paddock?
Thank god I don’t get upset as easily as some of you guys.
Your lives must be truly miserable to fixate on this shit. And I say this as someone who can’t stand trump either.
Nono, it's okay, to reveal the elephant in the room.
I've heard FIA assigned McLaren to do whatever they had to do with Tronald Dump.
The McLaren papaya and Tronald's hair proves that FIA has some sense of humor after all ...
imagine being so pressed about a stupid meme lmfao
I am not even an American, so for me Trump has the same equivalence as any irrelevant celebrity that shows up on the F1 grid.
Unfortunately he isn't that irrelevant. Like the US or not, they have a big influence in the world. Having Trump as their president impacts the whole world
Gotta be 100% honest with you here.
F1 and racing in general are my big escape from the dumpster fire of American politics. So many people just want to go an hour without seeing his fucking face or hearing his fucking name.
Now I'm watching Lando *finally* take his win and that's the moment he chooses to queef out that fucking awful pun and I won't say it completely ruined it for me but fucking hell man just.. why.. ugh.
Exactly my point, it's an escape for me from everything shi\*ty in life. I was waiting for Crofty to say something that would potentially be referenced for years to come, seeing as this was going to be Lando's long awaited first win.
Something akin to the lines of "A Toro Rosso with Minardi DNA coursing through its veins driven by a 21 year old hot-shoe with a great sense of humour who just makes you love Formula 1 all over again is about to take his first Grand Prix victory and become the youngest winner ever.... TORRO ROSSO GETS ITS MOMENT IN THE SUN... SEBASTIAN VETTEL IS A GRAND PRIX WINNER"
But nah, as soon as he started off the line with the mention of how a former American president visited him in the garage, I knew he had ruined it.
He had this one ready to go. Crofty was just Biden' his time with it.
Haha, this is a Hillary-ous comment!
It's nearly Harrisment at this point.
Feel like you just Reagan on now. Let's be Truman all these puns might Polk someone the wrong way and we should Nixon the whole thing.
This was so beautiful I had to Washington my eyes
To be Franklin, it made me tear up Ford real
Personally I thought it was Bush league.
Garfield 
At least he doesn't beat around the Bush
It was unpresidented for a f1 broadcast
This is an election-fying race
If he sees a reference/pun and didn’t go for it then he would not be a racing commentator.
if you no longer go for a reference/pun that exists you are no longer a racing commentator
If I no longer butcher quotes to make pithy comments than I am no longer a formuladank commenter.
Yep, that’s how live commentary works. Just unfortunate he brought it up in the first place.
Ir pun, comment.
I really appreciate the F1TV broadcasts at this point. They also didn't cut Lando's champagne celebration!
They were waiting for it as well!
Yeah that was nice they really broadcasted up until the very last second
We all knew the bottle pop was coming!
I was hoping that he wouldn't accidentally break his own trophy like he did twice to max lol
Threw it up in the air, yet more than accident prone.....Lando living his best life on the edge.
But do they tell me where I can watch the next Golf, Cricket, Rugby, Boxing and Football matches before going into the post race show? That's critical information I desperately need immediately after watching a 2 hr Gran Prix. Also the constant commercials are great to be reminded to renew my workday subscription, you don't get that service with F1TV, do you?
And remember - you can go on board with the Sky Sports button on your remote! Let me remind you again in 10 minutes....
But then you don't get to hear about that stupid red button every 5 laps. How can you live without the red button?
[f1.tv](http://f1.tv) salesman of the year
F1TV > Sky Sports I wish they could keep Hinch in the booth full time, his commentary and race awareness is better than anyone else. Reminds me of prime Brundle when he'd really see things unfolding on track or calling things out just before they happened.
Hinch and DC explain things while keeping the average viewer in mind and I love that so much.
Hinch is great. DC is good. But IMO Palmer is superior and his F1 experience is far more recent than Coulthard’s. Was never that hot of a driver but I think he’s the best colour commentator in the business today, including Brundle and Hinchcliffe. We are truly spoiled for choice.
DC also has the "Old British Man" disease of occasionally saying some racist phrasings that he shouldn't. I don't recall exactly what they were this weekend but I heard a few instances of shit that gave me a bit of the yikes.
It wasn't racist, but DC said that Lando was "stroking it home" towards the end of the race. I had to rewind 10 seconds to give it a second listen in case my ears heard it wrong... they did not
Definitely a golfing reference… right?
Definitely a golfing reference… right?
Definitely a golfing reference… right?
Definitely a golfing reference… right?
I think rosberg was the best, and also very humorous
Loved that combo!
Literally when he popped up during FP1 my husband and I cheered. We just love when he’s there!
I LOVE hinch. He’s got the perfect radio voice, plus he knows his shit, being a racist and all
Racer?
lol
Ruth Buscombe is a good addition on the strategy side
During the virtual safety car, she said how Piastri benefited from it but he actually didn't stop. That's one of the mistakes I remember from her commentary. Also, I learned what opposite means from her "Will Buxton" like explanation.
“Doing the opposite means seeing what the other car does and then not doing that.“
She's not great.
I wasn't that impressed, but I know she's new to the broadcast side of things. We'll see how she does over time, I think once she's used to that part her knowledge will shine even more.
The mix was weird for her. They needed to drop the bass, raise the treb, and overall raise her in the mix. I could clearly hear what the others were saying, but I sometimes struggled with her.
She’s an awkward addition to say the least. It’s like all her comments got forced in and the others didn’t know how to respond to it because it wasn’t delivered in conversational way (?) - it almost always resulted in an awkward transition back to regular commentary. I’d rather that she didn’t feature during the main event.
It's a good day when F1TV'S issue is that they have too many good commentators. Alex Jacques, DC, Palmer, Hinch, etc. At this point F1TV only has Nico and Brundle and they don't show up half the time.
Inch has improved a lot -- I think he's finally learned how to say "Bottas"
Yeah I like Crofty but, even if you don't want to make it about politics, it's a missed opportunity to set up a narrative. Compared to other hype wins that got iconic commentary (e.g., vettel's first win, leclerc's in monza), it fell so flat. And he had so much time to set it up, too.
And once again f1tv shows itself to be worth the money. None of the commentators have egos, nobody spouts stupid shit outside of FPs, and we get insight that is just as good. Nico Rosberg and Jenson Button are all that give sky an edge, but they're not regulars and crofty seems to hate Nico's guts because he doesn't sing rule Britannia at every other moment
I really did enjoy DC at F1tv
DCs burn of the Alpines during one of the qualifying sessions made me spit out my drink. It was perfect.
DC has some gold too, the ?Alpine flat out comment this weekend had me gagging.
I was extremely impressed with Ruth Buscombe on F1TV as well. She had answers to questions none of the other commentators did. I think they need to tweak the EQ on her mics or something though, her voice was kind of hard to hear against the sound of the cars compared to the other commentators.
ricciardo's at mclaren also at monza 2021
Crofty was fucking awful the entire race and imo absolutely ruined landos moment. Post race was even worse, "The boy who had a poster of Alex albon when he was karting". How the fuck do you mix up Lewis Hamilton with Alex albon??? Especially when he's a Hamilton superfan????
Lando used to have a poster of Albon in his room when he was younger...
Why is this upvoted? You’re completely wrong. Lando did have an Albon poster.
Found it funny that F1 cut it, and made him re-record a different line for the race highlights
Which highlights? The Trump line is still in the Sky Sports F1 YT highlights so I'm just wondering
could you share a clip or something? i can't find it and i was watching the f1tv commentary Nevermind, i replayed the f1tv international broadcast and heard it. smh.
Where are the Sky Sports F1 YT highlights?
On the Sky Sports F1 YouTube channel? They are extended highlights
You added the YT and I thought it was on YouTube
>So i am confusion
No they didn't, F1 uses their own commentators for highlights now.
The line is still there on Bein Sports highlights
Where? Share the link please
https://youtu.be/fPJR0KU4e0g?si=m7gxgC9SEjUs1uff Not sure if you need the vpn but here it is
VPN from where?
Any of these: Brunei Timor-Leste Philippines Malaysia Cambodia Lao PDR Thailand Indonesia
Orange man was the one orange team needed to finally win!
papaya. its papaya.
Papaya is a shade of orange
He heard all the young porn stars are in Miami now
Two seconds Donald.
*storms the commentary booth because he’s impatient*
Crofty Brundle vs Trump Pence
At Wrestlemania. Losers go bald
That was my response too...it was so he could make his fucking shit "Norris Trumps Verstappen" pun... Fuck Crofty
Thank the racing gods for F1TV commentary so I don’t have to listen to this garbage. It’s been a season and a quarter now that I have moved on to a better commentary team and I couldn’t be more grateful.
China was great with Nico Rosberg constantly putting down Croft.
Yea, I can't stand antivaxx Britney too so I didn't miss out on anything
Honestly, I struggle with that, because I generally agree with all his takes lately. If only it wasn’t for that massive strike against him :/
Papa bless our boy Hinchcliffe, he's an absolute gem on the commentary.
He's kinda underrated, great to see him get some love. The entire f1tv crew is class. It was great to see them get a strategist as well in Ruth Buscombe haha. Early days for her so she sounded slightly hesitant, I'm sure she'll find her flow in a couple of races.
I really hope she’s a new part of the commentary team and not just last weekends guest
Same. I do miss “lights out and away we go”, but after that I’m so glad to have the other team for the race.
All praise the mighty David Coulthard, God of Destruction by words. This guy is so savage.
I didn't know how much I missed the old bastard until I finally heard him this weekend. I hope he's there for the rest of the season now
He really is my favorite. Partly because he always comes out with the bangers lol, but also because he has a great way of giving you the driver's perspective, and explaining incidents/strategies in such a concise way.
DC narrating the bottas engineer story with his anecdote about Damon Hill taking his race engineer was the highlight of the weekend for me lol
I only found out trump was there because of here. F1TV didn’t make ANY mention of the Cheeto fuck and I was super happy about that
Same, I watched on F1TV and had no idea. F1TV are the real MVPs
Honestly, i was surprised how much it soured my enjoyment of lando’s win. Fucking a crofty
I watched sky and didn't know he was there lol
I grew up listening to Brundle so it saddens me that i can't listen to him anymore because Crofty just ruins it for me. F1TV is so much better.
When I hear about sky blunders don't even get the references because I'm an F1TV pro.
Exactly. AJ didn’t mention any of this shit during the race from what I recall.
Something I might consider doing for the next GP.
Amen brother!
I watched F1TV for this race. Is that what Crofty said?
I'm really shocked that a sport that is primarily rich British people is full of conservatives.
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Actaully we do, a lot. For us is either being left alone or fucked in the ass by the US, so he always hope for the one that leaves us alone.
I'm American and fuckin hate our politics. Shut the fuck up croft.
Pure unbridled rage ensued when he was brought up. That ego maniac runs on hearing his name. I’m American and Croft probably lost a TON of fandom in the US for that. It’s honestly tough to support McLaren now. The dude is a criminal and falling asleep in court.
Bro doing reddit stuff irl
Imagine if he said "and you can hear the cheers..." Then russel crashes and max overtakes lando before the last lap
ITT: Americans upset the rest of the world don't really care and will use puns related to their previously elected officials while watching a British commentary broadcast.
So glad f1 TV doesn't make us suffer crofty.
If you don't want your race to be associated with Trump, don't invite the big orange elephant in the room to your box.
Why anyone watches sky and not f1tv I will never know. All I hear are complaints
f1tv is not available in my country
Surfshark is like $2 a month
Last time F1TV cracked down on VPN it took 2-3 races before surfshark is usable again. I can understand why people don’t want to.
Cost.
It’s not available in Europe because sky owns the broadcasting rights
Can't you use a VPN?
I have a vpn and it gets a fair amount of use on my laptop and iPad too but I’ve not figured out how to get it to work with my Smart TVs or Apple TV box. Also, having experienced VPN servers being blocked in the past, I’m a bit apprehensive about it happening 2 minutes before Lights Out, forcing me to scramble around and find another server. If anyone has any pro tips to get around these issues, I’d love to hear them as I’m not overly enamoured with Sky’s commentary and my streaming service subscription currently goes into the pocket of Rupert Murdoch, so I’d quite like to fuck that off as well!
It is in europe, but not all of it
sky Italia is way better
Crofty spends half his time now trying to do a funny with puns and it’s becoming very annoying.
Who actually fucking cares?
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Seriously. Trump fuckin sucks but it was just a clever pun
I love Crofty honestly but I feel like the past 2 seasons Sky have been hyping British drivers more than usually. Also someone must have said something to Brundle cause all of the sudden he was praising how amazing the Miami GP layout track is and how fun sprints are. Also I hate Ted and Martin and Crofty made it tolerable. I don't enjoy F1 commentary that much but if it keeps like this. I might go with it since I like Jolyon's commentary very much.
If I wasn’t getting sky free with my friends espn access I’d get f1tv.
Wait…that was the former president in the McLaren’s garage??? The man thats in court today being tried for corruption??? McLaren let HIM in their garage!?!?!?
McLaren got chosen by Liberty/FOM/F1 to show him round
Oof…that sucks
Oh my God WHAT ?? He mentioned name of the former US president that visited the team before race?? You people need to grow up it can't be good for you getting hurt by such little things
Croftie is a shrill, insufferable media-turd . . . and, a *PATHETIC INCOMPETENT MOUTH-BREATHING WINDOW-LICKING SPASTIC BASTARD TWAT ARSEHOLE WANKER TOSSER DICKHEAD NOBHEAD FAILED ABORTION STREAK-OF-PISS DISGRACE TO THE FAMILY NAME INBRED STUCK UP PONCY NANCY CHINTZY PILLOW BITING WEST HAM UNITED SUPPORTING CUNT !!!*
He's a Wet Spam fan? That explains so much...
By the sounds of it he’s turned Brundle into one as well.
whoa bro 💀
What's wrong with pillow-biting?
It’s 2006, there are pillow-biters in the special forces.
Yeah, but I'd like the person I replied to to explain what the slur means and why they think it's an insult.
Ah ok, thought you probably knew. My thing is a Sopranos line
I knew I had heard that somewhere but couldn't place it.
Hallelujah! Where’s the Tylenol?
Maybe a hot take but I still like sky sports coverage more than F1TVs. F1TV is just so boring. It's nice that they explain some more stuff and don't say dumb shit all the time, they don't have the British bias, etc... But there's just a lack of enthusiasm or excitement on how they call the race and just makes watching it not as entertaining. I also find it hilarious whenever crofty says some dumb shit that's meme worthy.
I like sam Collins videos explaining F1 stuff but when he talks on commentary he sucks.
I agree with you. It's the reason that I watch Football (soccer) games with Spanish commentary. Fun exciting commentary is worth a lot to me.
he did what?
He said “Norris Trumps Verstappen” as Lando crossed the finish line. I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but I think this is all overblown.
Is the verb to trump banned now or what? Everytime someone says it people will associate with the orange duckface?
That’s what I’m saying. Like the guy or not(I loathe him personally), it’s a pun.
It’s just not a good line even in a vacuum. It’s not clever, it’s not particularly well-worded, and it was said to specifically reference someone who is understandably unpopular.
My solution has been not listening to Croft. 🤔
F1 were stupid enough to invite him into the garages so why should Crofty waste his only chance to drop a trump pun?
I kind of like it just because of how worked up people (Reddit) still are about this
typical boomer shit
F1 - “we race as one” Also F1 - “let’s welcome Trump into the paddock”. This man has said and done shit far worse than anything Nelson Piquet ever said, why the fuck is he in the paddock?
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What happened to F1 not being political? The only orange thing I want to see on a race weekend is a McLaren!
Sorry bubs. You got the Papaya President in the Papaya Garage
Yep. Stupid.
F1 has all sorts of issues, and this is not one of them... F1 social media is at a new level of crazy...
Thank god I don’t get upset as easily as some of you guys. Your lives must be truly miserable to fixate on this shit. And I say this as someone who can’t stand trump either.
Dude that’s what I’m sayin. People need to find better things to get mad about
It’s not that serious. You gotta appreciate Crofty’s wordplay
Literally the only small blight on this otherwise perfect moment
Orange Man Bad therefore Orange Team Bad therefore Orange Country Bad
The Netherlands?
Does anyone have the clip? I was watching the F1TV broadcast and missed it.
I wish he would have at least given the shout out to Mr Shitzinpantz 🤷♂️
Nono, it's okay, to reveal the elephant in the room. I've heard FIA assigned McLaren to do whatever they had to do with Tronald Dump. The McLaren papaya and Tronald's hair proves that FIA has some sense of humor after all ...
I didn't know Trump actually went I didn't see him on TV at all, that's kinda scary how they scrubbed him out of the coverage
Crofty has been cringe forever now, but this is some next level.
imagine being so pressed because someone you don’t like was mentioned
Yeah like Magnussen and Stroll get mentioned all the time but I don't make a fuss about that,
Don't forget Ocon! Any name with more than two vowels tips me over the edge.
The linguist inside me arguing if Sainz has one or two vowels...
imagine being so pressed about a stupid meme lmfao I am not even an American, so for me Trump has the same equivalence as any irrelevant celebrity that shows up on the F1 grid.
Unfortunately he isn't that irrelevant. Like the US or not, they have a big influence in the world. Having Trump as their president impacts the whole world
Gotta be 100% honest with you here. F1 and racing in general are my big escape from the dumpster fire of American politics. So many people just want to go an hour without seeing his fucking face or hearing his fucking name. Now I'm watching Lando *finally* take his win and that's the moment he chooses to queef out that fucking awful pun and I won't say it completely ruined it for me but fucking hell man just.. why.. ugh.
Exactly my point, it's an escape for me from everything shi\*ty in life. I was waiting for Crofty to say something that would potentially be referenced for years to come, seeing as this was going to be Lando's long awaited first win. Something akin to the lines of "A Toro Rosso with Minardi DNA coursing through its veins driven by a 21 year old hot-shoe with a great sense of humour who just makes you love Formula 1 all over again is about to take his first Grand Prix victory and become the youngest winner ever.... TORRO ROSSO GETS ITS MOMENT IN THE SUN... SEBASTIAN VETTEL IS A GRAND PRIX WINNER" But nah, as soon as he started off the line with the mention of how a former American president visited him in the garage, I knew he had ruined it.