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It's definitely been a wild 'N wooly two
weekend's now of turbocharged motors; Uhm, PU's (Power Units) and sorts
throb-throb-throbbing into life, since although I've already lamented the less
than stellar results of trying to listen to Indycar.com and the ending of the season
opening St Pete race upon thy Golf Channel, nonetheless, at least it was available at a civilized time, or even
better yet, simply available!
As I reluctantly understand the push "O convenience;
Err Capitalism, by having everyone addicted to their Smartfones and the golden
cash stream they entail. Nevertheless,
if you're gonna push us onto "live" Streaming, then you've got to
have robust enough platforms to sustain the demand!
MIDNIGHT MASS DOWN
UNDER'
Funny, how Leigh Diffey's splittin' hairs, as
think it's almost four months since November 29th's Season Finale in Abu Dhabi,
but whatever, eh? Although it did seem rather funny that after Thy Wait; Hmm?
Diffey's quip 'bout Three and a half months is HALF of Indy Cars STUPENDOUS
7mos OFF-Season; CRIKEYS!
Actually what stood out to me in Thy middle
'O night, was the hilarity over Melbourne's inclement weather, nee
precipitation along with thou wind Ah-blowin' mightily, messed considerably
with cars running On-track during Friday's two Free Practice sessions
preventing many from going out for a spin since they didn't have many spares
worth risking! Not to mention Nico
Rosberg's Hydroplaning!
And apparently I made the right choice by
electing to go to bed vs. watching another middle 'O night telecast, since I
was pretty miffed that the F1 Qualie show had been reduced a half hour's
length... Whilst sounds like everybody was miffed over the STUPIDITY
of the new & improved "Musical Chairs" qualifying format that's
now been rightly scrapped!
Hmm? Musical
Chairs, like when's the musak gonna stop upon Uncle Bernaughty's (Bernard
Ecclestone) constant Knackerin' of thy Sport? Whom after all, perhaps should
take heed of what his elder Murray's got to say...
Yet besides the less than palatable
air-times, albeit the ease of access plus stability of NOT Dumping midstream!
Isn't I-T amazing what a really good TV Broadcast crew can do vs. meanderin'
mediocrity, i.e.; NBC Sports Network vs. Thy Rumblin-Stumblin; Err Buildin'
thou Foundation Eddie Cheever; but I digress...
As biggest race takeaway obviously was seeing
"Fredrico Suave" (Fernando Alonso) walk away from that horrific shunt
with Esteban Gutierrez!
MOTO GP MISHAP!
So I'd been searching 'N searching continuously
the entire week-plus prior on my TV Guide listings provided via Thy NFB
Newsline for The Blind telephone service and just getting nowhere; FRICK! Is
I-T on in thou middle 'O night a la Formula 1? Or tape delayed 'til Monday? As
surely it'll be on Stateside Terrestrial TV, right? Hmm? May be its on the
B-I-G' FOX Taxicabs' channel? NOPE! That's NOT I-T! And Fox Sports-1 is
Chock-Oh-Block, or should that be Chop Suey; Hooah! Of Somme-thun' called UFC;
SHIT!
As isn't it amazing? Then again perhaps it's
just one more sign of how much they like their motor racing Up North Eh! Since
as much as I enjoy teasing my fellow Hosers, you've gotta give it UP to 'Dem
KuhNucks for being motor racing MAD! As
it certainly would be nice if we had some sort of Seattle Newspaper semblance;
Oh Never Mind! As Geo. Phillips comments 'bout his local Nashville's
ThinahSeein' comes to mind...
But it sure would be nice if some local
entity would actually give us upcoming previews of A-L-L motor racing, besides
thou requisite Roundy-round 'RASSCAR mention.
As its just downright S-A-D that the only
voice telling me about the impending MotoGP Season Opener NO less from Qatar
comes via Thy Mayor 'O Hinchtown's Hometown, nee Toronto; YIKES!
NORTH AMERICA SNUBBAGE!
"Now, while talking about world motorsport, I have
bad news for MotoGP fans. Unless you go to the website and sign up for live
streaming, you will not be able to watch this weekend’s opening race.
And that’s
because MotoGP has signed a contract for North America with something called
BeIN TV, a very obscure channel. I don’t know which cable or satellite company
carries it, if any.Despite rumours that the race will be on Fox Sports 1 in the United States on Sunday, that is not true."
(Source: thestar.com)
As Y'all can read the full story by clicking here, which even though it regards last weekend's racing action on thy Telie, it does also talk 'bout their Boy TAG', nee Alex Tagliani's latest Indy500 ride...
SEBRING SATTELITES...
'Whale as Louis Black would say, you're
driving me BAT SHIT CRAZY! IMSA! As cannot
believe I-T, but the FUCKING Internetz' webcast prolifically Dumped at 6:53PM
Pacific after I'd been contently listening for some three hours plus with ZERO interruptions
and only 1-2 very short commercial interruptions...
Can you Hear me Now Verizon IndyCar series on the Advanced Auto parts
Radio Network live from the Firestone Studio sponsored by Sunoco; Oh Never
Mind!
But Alas, the Imsa.com webpage just kept
saying" over 'N over for 40 excruciating minutes: The video could not
play, please try again later - every time I tried re-loading Thy "Tune
In" Webpage; FUCK!
As I finally managed to hear John Hind
Ha-Haugh's voice telling me there was four minutes remaining; FUCK! As the webcast went BLANK for Mwah for 40+
minutes meaning I really don't know what happened, nor did I get to hear Pipo Derani's
second scintillating pass for the lead!
As I came back On Air at 7:37PM Pacific with
a whole different complexion to Thy race... Since before the webcast
inexplicably Dumped! My Homeboyz' Team Seattle's #23 with whom Shea Adam called
"Super Mario," aka Mario
Farnbacher, who'd been reinserted into the cockpit had
taken the lead during Pit stops from Richie Stanaway in the No. 98 Aston
Martin.
So for Mwah, the final tally was Two OUTS
upon live-streaming Webcast's, whilst Terrestrial television is still the most viable way to G-O! But it
needs to have decent announcers, i.e.; Leigh Diffey, David Hobbs and Steve
Matchett! As I'm looking most forward to Peacock-lite's, nee NBCSN's upcoming
IndyCar broadcast, for which I must say I was most impressed over how many
times the TV Commercial promoting I-T on Phoenix International Raceway's
"Bullring Oval" (Saturday Night, April 2nd) played during the
weekend's Formula 1 race coverage!
thus, call me 'Ol School, NOT liking change
or Whatever, but! Kudos to F1 and Indy Cars availability for entire race
broadcasts on Terrestrial TV, with Imsa.com getting a D grade in my book for
Thy 45min Brown-out! Whilst MotoGP can simply GO FISH! As guess that'll be one
less series to try paying Attenzione too, eh? And BOO-HOO-HOO Yuhs Poor
Advertisers...
Not to mention
enjoying skipping those dreadfully RIDICULOUS O.M.F.G. DARK 30 wake-up times;
Hurrah!
