| You know something, I was just thinking the other day after reading one of
| your posts how you refreshingly always manage to keep your sense of humour
| on r.a.s., and are able to keep these things in perspective. Guess that
| ability slipped a little today for some reason.
| David G Fisher
1996 FACT FILE
There were 40,992,557,185 viewers of the 1996 Formula One season
Total number of minutes of broadcast = 1,631,304 (1995 = 1,586,073)
Total number of broadcasts = 52,588 (1995 = 50,912)
Total number of broadcasting countries = 202 (1995 = 201)
(Total number of countries in the United Nations = 185; 1994 soccer World
Cup = 32 billion viewers; 1992 Summer Olympic Games = 16 billion viewers;
figures for 1996 Olympics not yet available)
Paris, 25 February 1997
So if there were 17 races ( I think it was actually 16) that means an
average of 2,411,326,893 people watched every race.
Youch, thats even higher
than DGF said !! ;)
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Ian P
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It is obvious that Montoya made a mistake. David might choose to call it a
"dumb move" but most mistakes are "dumb moves".
Almost all "racing incidents" are caused by incautious driving, not by
aliens hurling cars at each other with tractor beams.
Online race adjudications often award "racing incident" and no penalty when
the problems related to net latency, and "warp" cause a collision. I know
real F1 cars are just computers now, but I don't think they have such lag
problems to excuse bad driving... yet ;o)
FWIW, I think Montoya has the potential to be a great F1 driver- we have
seen some flashes of his talent (eg Brazil) but we also see he needs to
learn some self control, still.
He has the raw talent, the rest will come with experience.
cheers,
John
The Formula 1 viewing figures are added up weird. I recall reading how
exactly they calculate it. It is not right. Anyone know where to find the
info or how it is done?
Hrm, a quick search in deja turns up this...
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=327b9115ff...
7d,13&seekm=7boo5h%24cer%241%40rena.mat.uc.pt#p
Check out message #10 in thread.
As you can see, the figures are counted for race, qual, additional, and
news. Not particularly indicative of actual totals, IMO.
MRSisson
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If I remember rightly, they came up with figures "proving" that more
people watch F1 than populate the Earth :-)
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Cheers!
Graeme Nash
I'm sure they count every possible occasion of someone viewing F1, however,
DGF didn't specifically say (from what I remember) that his figures were for
just the race ;)
I can't believe I'm defending him <G>
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Ian P
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| Nice try. http://www.ash.org.uk/html/advspo/html/formula_one.html
| One of these times you'll get it right.
| BTW, It's at the very bottom of the page.
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| David G Fisher (Who wonders why Gerry Aitken doesn't get it)
|
| I'm sure they count every possible occasion of someone viewing F1,
however,
| DGF didn't specifically say (from what I remember) that his figures were
for
| just the race ;)
|
| I can't believe I'm defending him <G>
| --
| Ian P
R. Schumacher outqualified Montoya again in Monaco by a rather large .7.
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David G Fisher (Who wonders why Gerry Aitken doesn't get it)
"Who said you said that then?" -- Gerry Aitken
"He said I said that when he said what he said." -- David G Fisher
> > He also lucked into the third fastest team in F1. R. Schumacher has
> > outqualified him in every race but one (Montoya outqualified him by one
> > position in Austria). R.Schumacher is the Williams driver who has one a
> race
> > this year.
> R. Schumacher outqualified Montoya again in Monaco by a rather large .7.
