Please tell me some of your watched that

[Hick]

What a race! role reversal from last year, too bad we had to deal with it on CBS.

*you

[E30 Wagen]

I watched it.

[RainMan]

Thought it was quite boring. Barely got to see any of Kimi, Rosberg, Speed, Fisi, the rest of the field. I understand the whole "new champion/old champion" and the closeness between the two, but it was just boring to watch. Alonso was clearly faster in the second stint, but did not have enough of an advantage to do everything. Once again, this race prooves something needs to be done about all the aero. Hopefully the 08 rule changes will help, although the cars will be really ugly.

[Jon325i]

Thought it was quite boring. Barely got to see any of Kimi, Rosberg, Speed, Fisi, the rest of the field.

There's a very simple reason for this: CBS.

I posted the quali results yesterday plus my thoughts about CBSs coverage of F1 events. They stay dominantly focused on the top six to eight cars, everything else is an afterthought. While watching today's San marino GP I kept thinking to myself "what about the 14 other cars that are running?" With the exception of a few blurbs about Scott Speed (for obvious reasons: American driver), you didn't hear much else. I was surprised at the amount of DNFs at the end of the race when the stats were flashed up. Then there was the hack-job coverage of the post-race interviews. I can understand that CBS was under time contraints to wrap up the race coverage to make way for the all-important golf event that followed, but they have always left something to be desired with their coverage of Forumla 1. And you wonder why its not so popular here....hhhmmmmm.

Fortunately, SpeedTV will be re-broadcasting this race next Sunday April 30th at 1pm EST (10am for us left coasties). You will have the usual commentators Bob Varsha, David Hobbs, and Steve Matchett. Speed's coverage of F1 is much better because its much more thorough....even giving camera time to the back-marker teams of Midland and Super Aguri. The pre and post race coverage is also much, much better. I wanted to learn more about Mike Gascoyne (technical director for Toyota), he was let go a couple weeks ago. That was big news in F1 circles but CBS offered up about 10 seconds of chatter about it.

Jon

[redcarbon]

They stay dominantly focused on the top six to eight cars, everything else is an afterthought.

I'm pretty sure they were constrained by the feed they got from Italian television so you can't place the fault on CBS.

I thought it was a great race, Alonso was right on Schumaker's tail with 26 laps to go and Shumi just slowed down and kept Alonso behind him, making the renault waste fuel...I don't know why Alonso pitted before Michael, he should have had more fuel (he stopped after Michael for the first stop), but I guess Michael and Ferrari knew they could hold him off (and save fuel by going slower) and make him pit first so that Ferrari maintained the lead.

[89isluv]

Just like RedCarbon said CBS has no control over what the camera guys are showing. The T.V. feed is direct from Italian T.V. or whatever other country the race might be run in that particular race weekend. I do agree that the commentators could be better, I mean you would expect Derek Daily to be more thourough.