.. like Rick DeBruhl, David Hobbs and Steve Matchett??
2007-01-04 15:35:09 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Auto Racing ➔ Formula One
I love Varsha, Hobbs and Matchett! I can't imagine watching F1 without them. I think they all play really well off each other. Peter Windsor is also very entertaining and I love what SPEED started this past season with showing him down in the pits throughout the weekend. The announcers that call the F1 race when they're broadcast on network tv in the US drive me insane. I understand that they're trying to get new people into the sport, but they act like they're talking to someone who's never seen a race in their life! And I've also found that they don't always have their facts right, either. Very annoying!
2007-01-04 22:59:09 · answer #1 · answered by tami_ky 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rick DeBruhl! Wrong commentator. It's Bob Varsah, David Hobbs and Steve Matchett on SPEED, with Peter Windsor in the pits. Windsor was born in the UK, but lived for quite awhile in Australia.
Varsha gets on my nerves, Hobbs is excellent (I especially like his dry humour/humor) and Matchett's insights are very interesting. Having said that, Matchett can be quite biased with his comments. For whatever reason he could never say anything positive about Eddie Jordan and the Jordan team (perhaps he once applied for and didn't get a job at Jordan). He was gleeful when Kimi Raikkonen was first awarded the win at the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix, only to have Giancarlo Fisichella in a Jordan EJ13 declared the winner shortly afterwards.
I'm fortunate in that I can also watch the ITV coverage. Martin Brudle is very good, but, like Varsha, James Allen gets on my nerves. He's very knowledgeable about Formula One racing, but he just isn't a good broadcaster and he does pontificate a bit too much about Jenson Button.
2007-01-04 18:07:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am in the US. We actually have Bob Varsha, David Hobbs and Steve Matchett. I don't dislike any of them but maybe because I am an American or for whatever reason I have trouble understanding David Hobbs' accent sometimes. He does bring in some insightful comments. Bob Varsha is American and so he talks about Scott Speed but Scott hasn't really been a race factor. But, otherwise Varsha doesn't really seem to say much besides the pre-planned news and banter that they have. The guy in the pits is very good and has more info but they keep him down there in the pits.
2007-01-05 03:58:54 · answer #3 · answered by Matt M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Speed channel commentators are great, I had the chance to meet Bob Varsha and Steve Matchett in Indianapolis this year at a Bar, Really intresting nice people. They were Sharing stories with a bunch of ppl in there.
2007-01-04 23:34:03 · answer #4 · answered by justin s 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do I have any other option?!? The national television of Romania has two big boring and annoying commentators who say hundreds of stupidities per second. They confuse the cars, the pilots, it simply seems like they watch completly another race. Nobody likes them, Formula 1 fans from Romania are very upset and they change the channel after some minutes of listening idiotic commentaries. There are many good commentators of motorsports over here but we don't know why, nobody take any measure. I want to go to the Journalism College and I hope one day to comment races on TV, than I'll have a good word to say
2007-01-05 02:03:21 · answer #5 · answered by Nicole's Nikky 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In Australia we get ITV/James Allen/Martin Brundle mixed in with our own Channel 10's Nick Crompton/Bill Woods/Leigh Diffy who contaminate the ITV coverage. This Aussie trio also cover other motor sport events like the V8 Supercars and MotoGP and anything on wheels, so I understand that it's rather difficult for them to keep up with all the F1 gossip and updates, but when I tune in to watch F1 on TV, I expect the so called commentators to tell me something I don't know. Atleast don't say things that are incorrect...these guys can't even tell the Ferraris from Spykers, or McLarens from Midlands, for goodness sake! Okay, if a microphone is thrust into my face and I was told to start commentating on air, I would probably freak out and be reduced to a stuttering moron, but I wish they could give me the job to be the guy who writes all the cue cards for the commentators!
2007-01-05 21:52:41 · answer #6 · answered by rockpool248 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
enable's start up with qualifying: to realize pole place is to get carry of an benefit interior the race. And in case you get on pole it means you're faster than the others. if it is so it may be very confusing for the others to bypass the faster one in the process the race if circumstances stay the comparable!!!! it is like math or technological information. besides the undeniable fact that, the subject of the previous few years has been that of marketing overtaking. they're attempting each variety of recent regulations to convey a teach the place followers can see extra changes of place by using passing on the song. yet there are various motives this activity isn't working ok. so a strategies the changes have led to a transformation of the pecking order of the communities, the place who became traditionally quickly until now won't be so now, and vice-versa. it is extra of a technological concern. yet so a strategies as overtaking, i don't see any distinction from the previous years. regrettably it is likewise the character of F1 itself. This F1 series isn't meant to be like NASCAR or Indy automobiles. The scope in F1 has been to sell the utmost technologies mutually as differentiating from the others, by using study, progression and significant investments. This in turn creates automobiles/communities which finally end up a lot extra effective than others. a thank you to get extra overtaking may be to point each and all of the automobiles to equivalent technological words (aerodynamically, tyre-clever and engine-clever), and actual go away the bravery and the purely suited outcomes fullyyt to the wonderful motive force's skills and superb attitude. by technique of doing so, specific there may be extra overtaking, besides the undeniable fact that it does not be F1 from now on. we'd create yet another vehicle racing type. F1 isn't purely the motive force and its skills. The spirit of F1 is the motor vehicle besides, and if a vehicle - given the comparable regulations and stipulations - seems extra effective than the others, then who's going to overhaul it on course? i think of we'd prefer to alter too many things and too quickly. The interest of F1 isn't purely overtaking, and who thinks in any different case probable would not comprehend F1 in its actual nature. The toy isn't broken thoroughly, yet. So, enable's not provide it the final hit. New regulations might desire to be created to extra effective govern the sport and supply it a easy spirit. so a strategies as overtaking, there will be seasons the place you will adventure extra overtaking, and others the place you will see extra disparity. that's the character of the sport.
2016-12-15 16:03:23 · answer #7 · answered by allateef 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rick BeDroolin'? Are you serious?
Here in Asia, I have to watch it on Star Sports. In a few Asian countries (Philippines, Thailand, and some others) they get the Australian feed and those guys a worth listening to, but in most of Asia we're stuck with the Chinese broadcast.
I don't mind that it's in Chinese, it's motorsports so I know what's going on without anyone telling me. And I don't mind the host, Robyn (don't know his family name) because he enjoys motorsports and sometimes interviews F1 bigwigs in English. But what I hate are the monotone morons he has for "colour commentators"; all three that they use are drooling imbeciles who make me want to turn it off.
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2007-01-05 07:20:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes i`m from England and my two commentators are James Allen and Martin Brundle and whenever i am abroad watching the f1 it is not the same without listening to them two. One is a former f1 racer as you will all know and the other used to work behind the scenes in f1 so it is a great combination
2007-01-05 07:48:20 · answer #9 · answered by bwfc 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No cause in Australia we get the British Broadcast of the event and all the commentators talk about is Jensen Button. Its very annoying considering he rearly dose any good.
2007-01-04 15:47:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋