F1 stuff on discovery channel (in canada at least)

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 -- Mike Beauchamp http://www.therevox.com - custom electro-theremins and stuff. http://www.mikebeauchamp.com - 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>

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 advertisement for HP and BMW -- Mike Beauchamp http://www.therevox.com - custom electro-theremins and stuff. http://www.mikebeauchamp.com - mike's personal site. "Damien Evans" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > 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> > >

sounds like the 'allianz' stuff that we get alot of here on motors tv. pez "Mike Beauchamp" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> 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 advertisement for HP and BMW > > -- > Mike Beauchamp > http://www.therevox.com - custom electro-theremins and stuff. > http://www.mikebeauchamp.com - mike's personal site. > > > "Damien Evans" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > > 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> > > > > > >

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 02:12:10 -0400, "Mike Beauchamp" <[email hidden]> wrote: >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 advertisement 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!).

It was okay yeah, better than nothing... -- Mike Beauchamp http://www.therevox.com - custom electro-theremins and stuff. http://www.mikebeauchamp.com - mike's personal site. "Magnus Svensson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 02:12:10 -0400, "Mike Beauchamp" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >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 advertisement 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!). >

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. -- Mike Beauchamp http://www.therevox.com - custom electro-theremins and stuff. http://www.mikebeauchamp.com - mike's personal site. "Pez" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Sojyc.13943$[email hidden]... > sounds like the 'allianz' stuff that we get alot of here on motors tv. > > pez > > "Mike Beauchamp" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > 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 advertisement for HP and BMW > > > > -- > > Mike Beauchamp > > http://www.therevox.com - custom electro-theremins and stuff. > > http://www.mikebeauchamp.com - mike's personal site. > > > > > > "Damien Evans" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:[email hidden]... > > > > 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> > > > > > > > > > > > >

No that's a ringing endorsement!! :>) "Mike Beauchamp" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> It was okay yeah, better than nothing... > > -- > Mike Beauchamp > http://www.therevox.com - custom electro-theremins and stuff. > http://www.mikebeauchamp.com - mike's personal site. > > > "Magnus Svensson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 02:12:10 -0400, "Mike Beauchamp" > > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > > > >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 advertisement 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!). > > > >

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:28:51 -0400, "Mike Beauchamp" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>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."

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:31:08 +0200, Magnus Svensson <[email hidden]> wrote: >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?

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> 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?