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by **Mike Beaucham** » Sat, 12 Jun 2004 09:19:16

Right now from 8PM until 11PM there is 3 hours of documentaries on F1.
Secrets of Formula 1 or something..

It is being shown again at midnight.. check the discovery.ca site

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by **Damien Evan** » Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:41:06

Somebody got their capture cards fired up? <g>

by **Mike Beaucham** » Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:12:10

There was some really nice GPL era footage, but mostly they just keep
stating that F1 cars are similar to aircraft.

Oh yeah, and it seems to just be a huge adverti***t for HP and BMW

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by **Pez** » Sat, 12 Jun 2004 23:33:45

sounds like the 'allianz' stuff that we get alot of here on motors tv.

pez

> There was some really nice GPL era footage, but mostly they just keep
> stating that F1 cars are similar to aircraft.

> Oh yeah, and it seems to just be a huge adverti***t for HP and BMW

> --
> Mike Beauchamp
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/ - custom electro-theremins and stuff.
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/ - mike's personal site.

> > > Right now from 8PM until 11PM there is 3 hours of documentaries on F1.
> > > Secrets of Formula 1 or something..

> > > It is being shown again at midnight.. check the discovery.ca site

> > Somebody got their capture cards fired up? <g>

by **Magnus Svensso** » Sun, 13 Jun 2004 01:31:08

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 02:12:10 -0400, "Mike Beauchamp"

>There was some really nice GPL era footage, but mostly they just keep
>stating that F1 cars are similar to aircraft.

>Oh yeah, and it seems to just be a huge adverti***t for HP and BMW

Well now, they DO follow the Williams team...

It was pretty good anyway, if it's the same that ran over here a year
ago. Always enjoy Frank's and Patrick Head's opinions. There's even
something for the F1-bashers in it, with Mansell giving his opinion
about things(extra credit for those that spot the irony!).

by **Mike Beaucham** » Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:26:56

It was okay yeah, better than nothing...

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> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 02:12:10 -0400, "Mike Beauchamp"

> >There was some really nice GPL era footage, but mostly they just keep
> >stating that F1 cars are similar to aircraft.

> >Oh yeah, and it seems to just be a huge adverti***t for HP and BMW

> Well now, they DO follow the Williams team...

> It was pretty good anyway, if it's the same that ran over here a year
> ago. Always enjoy Frank's and Patrick Head's opinions. There's even
> something for the F1-bashers in it, with Mansell giving his opinion
> about things(extra credit for those that spot the irony!).

by **Mike Beaucham** » Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:28:51

Speaking about allianz... I don't know if you've ever seen the Speed TV F1
coverage. For the first few races of the season they had the WORST computer
generated lap of the track (to replace the usual on-board lap with a
selected driver) to show the circuit. The CG williams was taking the wrong
lines, and going way to fast through corners and too slow through others..
etc. it didnt' look real at all. They woulda been way better off showing a
replay of F1C. Anyways, it was clearly sponsored by allianz, because every
change they got, they showed a huge closeup of the allianz sponsor on the
front wing of the williams.

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Mike Beauchamp
http://www.racesimcentral.net/ - custom electro-theremins and stuff.
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> sounds like the 'allianz' stuff that we get alot of here on motors tv.

> pez

> > There was some really nice GPL era footage, but mostly they just keep
> > stating that F1 cars are similar to aircraft.

> > Oh yeah, and it seems to just be a huge adverti***t for HP and BMW

> > --
> > Mike Beauchamp
> > http://www.racesimcentral.net/ - custom electro-theremins and stuff.
> > http://www.racesimcentral.net/ - mike's personal site.

> > > > Right now from 8PM until 11PM there is 3 hours of documentaries on
F1.
> > > > Secrets of Formula 1 or something..

> > > > It is being shown again at midnight.. check the discovery.ca site

> > > Somebody got their capture cards fired up? <g>

by **JTS** » Tue, 15 Jun 2004 05:16:35

No that's a ringing endor***t!! :>)

> It was okay yeah, better than nothing...

> --
> Mike Beauchamp
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/ - custom electro-theremins and stuff.
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/ - mike's personal site.

> > On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 02:12:10 -0400, "Mike Beauchamp"

> > >There was some really nice GPL era footage, but mostly they just keep
> > >stating that F1 cars are similar to aircraft.

> > >Oh yeah, and it seems to just be a huge adverti***t for HP and BMW

> > Well now, they DO follow the Williams team...

> > It was pretty good anyway, if it's the same that ran over here a year
> > ago. Always enjoy Frank's and Patrick Head's opinions. There's even
> > something for the F1-bashers in it, with Mansell giving his opinion
> > about things(extra credit for those that spot the irony!).

by **Jason Moy** » Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:20:41

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:28:51 -0400, "Mike Beauchamp"

>Speaking about allianz... I don't know if you've ever seen the Speed TV F1
>coverage. For the first few races of the season they had the WORST computer
>generated lap of the track (to replace the usual on-board lap with a
>selected driver) to show the circuit. The CG williams was taking the wrong
>lines, and going way to fast through corners and too slow through others..
>etc. it didnt' look real at all. They woulda been way better off showing a
>replay of F1C.

Yeah I could see them showing the chicanes at montreal. "The drivers
take this corner flat out with 2 wheels in the grass and 2 on the
kerb." At Silverstone "the driver is flat out through the steep
uphill Bridge corner." Monza..."the car carefully navigates the
classic down and up and down of the rollercoaster section of the
course leading into Variante Ascari, named after the great driver who
lost his life after hitting a polygon and being thrown from the car."

by **Jason Moy** » Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:24:33

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:31:08 +0200, Magnus Svensson

>It was pretty good anyway, if it's the same that ran over here a year
>ago. Always enjoy Frank's and Patrick Head's opinions. There's even
>something for the F1-bashers in it, with Mansell giving his opinion
>about things(extra credit for those that spot the irony!).

Has Mansell pushed his way over the 300 pound mark yet?

by **Swerv** » Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:24:08

> Yeah I could see them showing the chicanes at montreal. "The
> drivers take this corner flat out with 2 wheels in the grass and 2 on
> the kerb." At Silverstone "the driver is flat out through the steep
> uphill Bridge corner." Monza..."the car carefully navigates the
> classic down and up and down of the rollercoaster section of the
> course leading into Variante Ascari, named after the great driver who
> lost his life after hitting a polygon and being thrown from the
> car."

I was watching the race with a friend and his wife (who's not really
into racing, but she watched with us to humor him :) ), and even she
thought that the rendered track run was crap. To paraphrase, "Why show
this as a track map? Half the time they're just doing silly camera
movements that they can't do in real life just to show off, and you have
no idea what the track looks like!!"

I have to say I totally agreed with her. And what was up with all the
aliasing on things like the grandstands in it? Even my video card can
do anti-aliasing realtime, I expect more from pre-rendered stuff.

Didn't Speed get yelled at on their message boards for doing that at
Australia and Malaysia and, after purchasing a clue, stop doing that?
I wonder how much HP is paying them to show off an HP car in a video
presumably rendered on HP (budget?) computers?

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