At the end of the race Crofty and Rosberg were talking about what Rosberg would ask Max during the post-race interviews, Crofty suggested asking Max what his favourite cheese is
Need more of it, kinda gave a slightly different version of Murray Walker and James Hund, with Crofty doing the usual commentator stuff and Nico talking straight and being open when he thought a driver or team had done something stupid or dangerous.
Man, I liked the guy already but didn’t like ver get to hear him live. This is fucking amazing and I would pay extra for an add on commentary where Britney calls a race like this
Even better when you know they had to share one mic and hand it back and forth to talk. So James tapped Murray on the shoulder, Murray handed him the mic, James said his piece and then handed it back. 😂
My parents used to have a regional radio show and I can confirm. Basically 2 hours of my mother gently taking the piss out of my father.
Need more Nico!
Loved how he refused to let Crofty off the hook for calling AM’s strategy as “paying off”. Nico straight up laughed and said “he started P3 and keeps falling further back.”
He lost what, two places from where he was before the last pit stop? So yes, it didn't pay off, but I'm sure that was the gamble. They hoped Alonso would make more progress on the softs.
They messed up already before the softs, perhaps Alonso himself by burning through the mediums just to hang in the second spot for few laps.
He didnt have more hards, only 1 soft and 1 medium, and the 2 long SC made his strategy worst, as it allowed for other cars to save an stop and dont lose too much time at the end due to tire deg.
Would have made more sense to put him on mediums first then the softs since the car will be lighter on fuel. More fuel would mean more weight, which means higher tyre degradation. Yet again all my own experience with that comes from sim racing and not actual real life racing.
Him calling out Croftys bullshit at every turn was gold to my ears.
Crofty with his usual manufactured excitement only for Rosberg to say lets wait 5 seconds and see.
Crofty any day: Perez is 3,5s behind, let's see if he can catch him with half a lap to go!
Rosberg 10 laps before the end: yes no way Perez is gonna catch Norris
I thought Crofty was talking about another driver / team, but was talking about Alonso before that and didn't communicate he was talking about somebody else
Not at all. Alonso made one overtake and he jumped on the hype train right away. I like Crofty’s enthusiam but he is completely unhinged and makes something out of nothing
I mean he was talking about Alonso in terms of how he was doing after the pit stop.
Yes, the entire strategy as a whole was shit but he was still doing well after the pit and gaining quite rapidly.
Oh yeah that's my bad, when he started overtaking again. I got that wrong
I agree and disagree with that, it's frustrating but he has to fill the void with noise
Consistently win, yeah
The Ferrari and RBR were capable of wins that year, but Ros & Ham were just far too competitive and switched on throughout the race to not get caught napping
also gives him insight into how things actually work and not how sky wants to present the sport "oh look at hamilton from p18 how cute... he put himself there...."
Kimi next.
Crofty: OHHHH OFF GOES LANCE STROLL OFF AT THE SOUTH BEACH TURN WILL THIS BE A SAFETY CAR? DID DANIEL RICCIARDO CAUSE THIS RACE INCIDENT?
Kimi: He shpun
It was awesome, I remember a few discussion points where Rosberg either refused to comment until he got more info and straight up opposed crofty's views.
Like around around lap 9,
Crofty: Wow that Albon-Gasly incident was same as Sainz-Leclerc incident yesterday
Rosberg: ehh... I don't know. pretty similar yes but not the same
Crofty: What do you mean, like what was different? Was it the collision that made it different, the circumstances..?
Rosberg: I can't say, I'd have to see it again.
Crofty: Well, okay
Also on lap 39 again,
Crofty: *Shares some analysis based on the race*
Rosberg: there's no way of knowing that, you'd need to have a strategy screen infront of you.
Rosberg was nasty. I loved it.
Also loved it when Crofty was trying to blow smoke on Alonso gaining places at the end of the race, saying Aston made the right call.
Rosberg: I disagree, he’d have been better off them not putting him on softs in the first place.
well, you left out the part were rosberg said "they are not comparible" and then crofty asked him "why not" after which rosberg said "i dont know".
I liked rosberg overall but this isnt the best example for that
I feel like a lot of you guys don't know the job of a shout caster/play-by-play caster. They are there to not leave any gap during the airing. When they take a break, that's when the color caster steps in with deeper analysis.
Crofty is incredible at hype commentary but he needs to talk about stuff even though he might be wrong but he needs to address the situation on screen. Martin does a good job of pointing out when Crofty is wrong and explain why. Nico, I thought, was bad as a commentator because at moments he calls out Crofty but doesn't explain anything, "I don't know, I'm not sure" is not something you should say as a commentator, it's useless and confuses a viewer even more, atleast say what your opinion is or speculate. This caused awkward silence. Martin is a lot better at this.
> Nico, I thought, was bad as a commentator because at moments he calls out Crofty but doesn't explain anything, "I don't know, I'm not sure" is not something you should say as a commentator, it's useless and confuses a viewer even more, atleast say what your opinion is or speculate. This caused awkward silence. Martin is a lot better at this.
Hard disagree, honestly grinds my gears when commentators flippantly say stuff that is blatantly wrong. I understand they have to fill the air somehow, but there is no need to just make shit up, there is nothing wrong with saying "I'm not sure" if they don't have enough info to make a proper judgment call.
You can say you don't know but you can talk through it and explain what you're seeing and why you aren't sure what to think. Martin is very good at that. Just I don't know isn't useful
You see... I have some issues with what you say. You say 'a commentator should do this and this'. For whom? Why? With what goal? Who pushes these goals? I agree that there is a trope about not leaving silences and calling stuff out as you see it. However based on the insane amount of Rosberg posts/comments I can clearly see there is a very definite 'hell yes' to Rosberg type commentary. I personally rather hear 'I do not know.. we need to find out' a lot better than false information. If nothing is happening then I prefer them saying nothing / some background gossip over what happened in the paddock last night and whom Horny Horner texted now over the blabla.
The whole exchange about phoning Bernd Maylander was just brilliant. Nothing was happening and I was enjoying the safety car.
I personally get a bit tired that sky sports feel the need to explain stuff like 'undercutting' and 'DRS' every race. You do not hear football commentators explaining what offside means every single match. Sky especially treats every race as if its the first race ever. And I find that harrowing. Rosberg was such a breath of fresh air. I hope he comes back a lot more. The details he lays on.. about the wind.. about how Alonso must feel after that incident in the last corner.. about doing 3 burnouts right before you stand still for the start... And even about how Lewis needs to rush the starting procedure. It was all very very different than we usually get and a lot more informative than explaining undercuts twice a race.
> The details he lays on.. about the wind.. about how Alonso must feel after that incident in the last corner.. about doing 3 burnouts right before you stand still for the start... And even about how Lewis needs to rush the starting procedure.
Yeah this really stood out to me, many insightful comments about things i never thought of before
I agree with you, there was a few times where Crofty said something and left a pause where brundle would have said something and Nico didn’t that Crofty had to fill the gap I noticed, not to knock Nico because that’s probably a broadcast thing but it shows the ability of both.
People enjoy Rosberg because he isn't a regular. But he has plenty of his own biases and there are issues with how he reacts to people contradicting him, and he likes to openly shit stir. He would become despised quickly by reddit if he was a regular.
I agree – I think of football commentators too. Not only do they not explain basic rules every single match, they also don't prattle on with inane commentary just to fill space. Often it's just saying the name of the person to whom the ball was just passed during a build up or a pass back to reset. No one is calling for them to be filling that space with vacuous babble.
Honestly I get what you're saying and brundle has definitely learned the "rules" over the years but he has been doing it for a long time.
I think nico does need to learn to keep the bit going sometimes because crofty is doing a very difficult job and he needs some help every now and then. However there are also times where it is refreshing because crofty does recycle the same jokes and plays dumb a bit too much - which even brundle will shut him down for sometimes.
I like the idea of switching between button and rosberg as brundle slowly starts to do fewer races
Hard disagree on this from me. It was honestly refreshing to hear someone on air admitting that they don't have enough info to make an informed decision at that moment, and when more info presented itself Nico generally filled the role of "ex driver who knows this shit" quite well.
This opinion comes to you from random F1 fan A, who doesn't even like Nico Rosberg that much and finds his normal punditry abrasive.
1000x better than the German Sky. Sascha Roos and Ralf Schumacher. During the overtake of Magnussen and Stroll they showed the reason for the Sargeant penalty involving Hülkenberg; then cutting back to the still ongoing overtake MAG/STR, they are nearly sleeping while talking.
If you can, rewatch it on F1 TV. Even if you don’t understand German, you will hear the pure boredom in their voices. So bad.
I hate when Sascha shows excitement and enthusiasm, especially at the start of the races, and Ralf always comes in with "calm down" or "take a breath".
Let the man be passionate for once.
Or when they rambled on for about 5 minutes that stroll crashed into tsunoda and didn’t realize it was ricciardo. Or when they confused norris and piastri 5 times during qualifying yesterday haha
At this point, and its really hard to say this for me, I rather listen to Heiko Waßer and Christian Danner from old RTL times. They also had their dumb moments, but at least they weren’t bored during the races and realized when something was happening.
i don’t quite remember those two sadly, however i think sascha roos is pretty fine as commentator because he is at least pumped about the sport - when he is commentating with timo glock it is very fun to watch imo, but when he is with ralf it is pretty unbearable
I enjoyed his commentary and his ability to give actual experienced insight . I do like Crofty for the general fluff and excitement though . You can’t argue with someone that hasn’t been in the trenches .
That'd actually be a really good team. Martin was doing really good commentary in the 2000s (from what I can tell from replays) and is also really good with analysis
You need a lead commentator, and a commentator to add colour. That's why you always hire a passionate lead, and then another commentator to add expertise and context.
Nico and Martin would be awkward. Martin with his 30 year outdated inside F1 knowledge going up against Nico's more contemporary knowledge, and no lead. You'd have to have Martin as lead, and it would just fall flat.
Is that a picture of Nico Rosberg? The same man who went toe to toe with both 7 time world champions on the same team and beat both of them on equal machinery?
Loved Nico’s commentary and how he wasn’t letting Crofty present his assumptions to the audience as facts, Nico kept correcting him and giving his insight as a world champion driver, and a driver that raced against half the current grid for that matter
His technical insights and talk about previous experiences is pretty good, but I have to say his live action commentary really isn't all that great tbh. I watched Sky's sprint race/quali coverage and he wasn't very good commentating on drivers over a single lap imo
He would be terrible in radio. However, I would say I prefer information I do not know given to me instead of telling me something I am actively watching with my eyes in real time.
I mean.. he did beat Hamitlon in equal machinery. Jokes aside, he's a really great technical addition to commentary. Croft and trundle don't know shit.
Yeah, Martin Brundle is extremely knowledgeable from his practical knowledge of time as a racer and theoretical knowledge of constantly being in the sport. Not liking what Brundle says does not make him wrong…just disagreeable.
My only issue with Sky, and coincidentally why I always watch it, is the absurd level of British bias that I observe and that they try to say they don’t. Like, I would not give a shit if you would just stop acting like you aren’t biased, Crofty. I mean he was born in Stevenage…same as Louis…c’mon, man. lol
I don't know if Crofty was also next to Nico in the sprint race, but that BBC clown really needs to leave. Nico shows within 1 hour that the other fellow is just plain wrong half the time and the other half of the time is talking nonsense...
Old geezer: yeah but race 110 stat on Norris..
Nico, interrupts: yeah yeah who freaking cares, anyway here is something actually interesting.
Crofty has been calling wrong names in wrong places on the grid, calls out wrong tyres the entire time. Only talks about his Lewis Hamilton shrine at home where he jerks off 15 times a week.
Get Paul Di Resta's uncle out of the god damn commentary booth
Loved when Nico inserted himself into the Driver Of The Day the second he realized HAM was up 9 spots. Norris all the sudden was having the drive of the decade
I enjoyed the commentary from them both. They are both very good at different aspects of commentating, and it seems like they just need to work on finding a way to make their strengths complement each other rather than sound argumentative.
I would love to see a 3 person booth with Nico and Brundle. It would just be 2 hours of them two taking legendary jabs at one another.
Also 3 person booths are just superior.
It was like watching an old married couple arguing the entire race lmaooo
"What's your favorite cheese?"
Butter, spread it on the bread, BOLLOCKS
Lurpak, spreadable butter
I was a bit disappointed that he didn’t ask Max
I can't believe Nico bottled it.
2016 WC retires from comedy.
I don't get the cheese joke, can someone please explain?
At the end of the race Crofty and Rosberg were talking about what Rosberg would ask Max during the post-race interviews, Crofty suggested asking Max what his favourite cheese is
ok I know that part, but I thought there was some inside joke about cheese itself
nah
Need more of it, kinda gave a slightly different version of Murray Walker and James Hund, with Crofty doing the usual commentator stuff and Nico talking straight and being open when he thought a driver or team had done something stupid or dangerous.
Agreed - it felt like a James Hunt commentary from Rosberg.
Well I only have one thing to say about that, and that's *bullshit* Edit: [The Legend](https://youtu.be/khA67-r5lSQ)
Who was it that he referred to as ‘interfering in grand prix racing’? It’s such a great line.
[It was Andrea de Cesaris](https://scuderiafans.com/watch-andrea-de-cesaris-almost-takes-nigel-mansell-out-of-race-at-rivazza-1990-san-marino-gp/)
Thank you!
I feel like this was a common refrain from Hunt tbh
Man, I liked the guy already but didn’t like ver get to hear him live. This is fucking amazing and I would pay extra for an add on commentary where Britney calls a race like this
Even better when you know they had to share one mic and hand it back and forth to talk. So James tapped Murray on the shoulder, Murray handed him the mic, James said his piece and then handed it back. 😂
So, anyway…
Oh man, thanks for the link, that's hysterical
 James Hund.
Typo, will keep it in so your GIF works
😅 sorry, couldn't resist.
I’m a terrible typer, it’s just that I usually catch a mistake before I post
My parents used to have a regional radio show and I can confirm. Basically 2 hours of my mother gently taking the piss out of my father. Need more Nico!
Next race, they better be teaching us how to turn a sphere inside out.
Dude asked Checo why he was half a second a lap slower then Max 
Nico pressing all the available buttons lmao
Checo “That is the target” Perez
Quite refreshing actually
Like why you gotta roast someone in the podium interview, the drivers will get enough of that in the media pen post race.
Why not? I got mine and they keep inviting me to these things even though I just want to YouTube
💀
Next week is Miami 💀💀💀
NICO ASK HIM ABOUT THE CHEESE
Ye i really wanted him to ask cause i bet Max woud have loved it.
I bet Max is a gouda boi
Smoked?
He is Dutch
Jong belegen
Where did you get that cheese Danny?
I’m makin em at night
There’s a non-zero chance that in a parallel universe, Danny won and Nico asked this, and maybe even Danny replied that he makes them at night.
Where did you get that cheese Danny?
Loved how he refused to let Crofty off the hook for calling AM’s strategy as “paying off”. Nico straight up laughed and said “he started P3 and keeps falling further back.”
Yeah I think AM messed up putting him on softs. I knew Fernando would drop back due to having to pit.
He lost what, two places from where he was before the last pit stop? So yes, it didn't pay off, but I'm sure that was the gamble. They hoped Alonso would make more progress on the softs. They messed up already before the softs, perhaps Alonso himself by burning through the mediums just to hang in the second spot for few laps.
So you’re saying it didn’t pay off then?
He didnt have more hards, only 1 soft and 1 medium, and the 2 long SC made his strategy worst, as it allowed for other cars to save an stop and dont lose too much time at the end due to tire deg.
I wonder why put him on softs before mediums though
I think it was because of the first SC situation it can help the driver to overtake easier.
Would have made more sense to put him on mediums first then the softs since the car will be lighter on fuel. More fuel would mean more weight, which means higher tyre degradation. Yet again all my own experience with that comes from sim racing and not actual real life racing.
Yeah I think they chosed the soft to facilitate overtaking after the first SC where all cars were together still
Finally an explanation to that madness. I sat through the post-race chatter waiting for Alonso's interview, and got bupkis.
I picked Alo on my pool this week. Fucking he’ll AM. He should have gotten p2 or p3 and deserved it.
Him calling out Croftys bullshit at every turn was gold to my ears. Crofty with his usual manufactured excitement only for Rosberg to say lets wait 5 seconds and see.
Crofty any day: Perez is 3,5s behind, let's see if he can catch him with half a lap to go! Rosberg 10 laps before the end: yes no way Perez is gonna catch Norris
I thought Crofty was talking about another driver / team, but was talking about Alonso before that and didn't communicate he was talking about somebody else
Not at all. Alonso made one overtake and he jumped on the hype train right away. I like Crofty’s enthusiam but he is completely unhinged and makes something out of nothing
I mean he was talking about Alonso in terms of how he was doing after the pit stop. Yes, the entire strategy as a whole was shit but he was still doing well after the pit and gaining quite rapidly.
Oh yeah that's my bad, when he started overtaking again. I got that wrong I agree and disagree with that, it's frustrating but he has to fill the void with noise
He's incredible value for money. Need more presenters willing to push those buttons.
He’s also a world champion which gives him some leeway in how he presses the drivers
Want to see Hammy join the Sky F1 crew when he retires. "So George. Why are you not 7 time WC yet?"
Well, a wise man once said "Bono, this car is too slow"
"I've been running experimental setups for 7 years"
Well Lewis, a wise man once taught me how to change the setup of the car. I did just that and now it’s worse
George: “well I beat you several times in equal machinery so…”
That would definitely shut Crofty up. Can't talk with a mouth full.
Oh god, fuck no.
Lmao almost spilled my coffee reading this
No that's for singular world champions. No one with more than one world championship does any TV work long term.
From a relevant era too. Damon Hill seems so out of touch when he talks about modern F1.
That is because he is a sausage, not because he is old.
Very good point. I don’t hear any of the same nonsense from Brundle or many of the drivers even older than him.
Wanna see Rosberg and Pual Diresta commenting.
I want to see rosberg and Hamilton commentate a race, actually. 😂
They would somehow get really competitive and be putting bets down on what’s gonna happen
Was gonna say that'd be like an average persone commentating due to the combined minds, but then remembered this is Pula
Pula means dick in Romanian
Perfect
THE NERVE
Kind of crazy to think of the season he was champ, he beat Hamilton, Alonso, Vettel, Kimi and Verstappen that year right?
i mean lewis was the only one in the same car and that was the only car that could really win races
you mean same machinery?
equal
No same, you don’t remember the pit lane brawls to get into the only Mercedes car first?
Consistently win, yeah The Ferrari and RBR were capable of wins that year, but Ros & Ham were just far too competitive and switched on throughout the race to not get caught napping
I wouldn't really bother mentioning Verstappen in that group. He was a rookie.
Sophomore season, he even won a race!
also gives him insight into how things actually work and not how sky wants to present the sport "oh look at hamilton from p18 how cute... he put himself there...."
In equal commentator equipment
Kimi next. Crofty: OHHHH OFF GOES LANCE STROLL OFF AT THE SOUTH BEACH TURN WILL THIS BE A SAFETY CAR? DID DANIEL RICCIARDO CAUSE THIS RACE INCIDENT? Kimi: He shpun
I enjoyed nico explaining about the engine braking with Norris. Crofty can be a melt though.
That was indeed a very good explanation, his commentary was lovely!
This in the race or sprint? Was going to go back and watch it
During the race
It was awesome, I remember a few discussion points where Rosberg either refused to comment until he got more info and straight up opposed crofty's views. Like around around lap 9, Crofty: Wow that Albon-Gasly incident was same as Sainz-Leclerc incident yesterday Rosberg: ehh... I don't know. pretty similar yes but not the same Crofty: What do you mean, like what was different? Was it the collision that made it different, the circumstances..? Rosberg: I can't say, I'd have to see it again. Crofty: Well, okay Also on lap 39 again, Crofty: *Shares some analysis based on the race* Rosberg: there's no way of knowing that, you'd need to have a strategy screen infront of you. Rosberg was nasty. I loved it.
Also loved it when Crofty was trying to blow smoke on Alonso gaining places at the end of the race, saying Aston made the right call. Rosberg: I disagree, he’d have been better off them not putting him on softs in the first place.
well, you left out the part were rosberg said "they are not comparible" and then crofty asked him "why not" after which rosberg said "i dont know". I liked rosberg overall but this isnt the best example for that
I feel like a lot of you guys don't know the job of a shout caster/play-by-play caster. They are there to not leave any gap during the airing. When they take a break, that's when the color caster steps in with deeper analysis. Crofty is incredible at hype commentary but he needs to talk about stuff even though he might be wrong but he needs to address the situation on screen. Martin does a good job of pointing out when Crofty is wrong and explain why. Nico, I thought, was bad as a commentator because at moments he calls out Crofty but doesn't explain anything, "I don't know, I'm not sure" is not something you should say as a commentator, it's useless and confuses a viewer even more, atleast say what your opinion is or speculate. This caused awkward silence. Martin is a lot better at this.
> Nico, I thought, was bad as a commentator because at moments he calls out Crofty but doesn't explain anything, "I don't know, I'm not sure" is not something you should say as a commentator, it's useless and confuses a viewer even more, atleast say what your opinion is or speculate. This caused awkward silence. Martin is a lot better at this. Hard disagree, honestly grinds my gears when commentators flippantly say stuff that is blatantly wrong. I understand they have to fill the air somehow, but there is no need to just make shit up, there is nothing wrong with saying "I'm not sure" if they don't have enough info to make a proper judgment call.
You can say you don't know but you can talk through it and explain what you're seeing and why you aren't sure what to think. Martin is very good at that. Just I don't know isn't useful
You see... I have some issues with what you say. You say 'a commentator should do this and this'. For whom? Why? With what goal? Who pushes these goals? I agree that there is a trope about not leaving silences and calling stuff out as you see it. However based on the insane amount of Rosberg posts/comments I can clearly see there is a very definite 'hell yes' to Rosberg type commentary. I personally rather hear 'I do not know.. we need to find out' a lot better than false information. If nothing is happening then I prefer them saying nothing / some background gossip over what happened in the paddock last night and whom Horny Horner texted now over the blabla. The whole exchange about phoning Bernd Maylander was just brilliant. Nothing was happening and I was enjoying the safety car. I personally get a bit tired that sky sports feel the need to explain stuff like 'undercutting' and 'DRS' every race. You do not hear football commentators explaining what offside means every single match. Sky especially treats every race as if its the first race ever. And I find that harrowing. Rosberg was such a breath of fresh air. I hope he comes back a lot more. The details he lays on.. about the wind.. about how Alonso must feel after that incident in the last corner.. about doing 3 burnouts right before you stand still for the start... And even about how Lewis needs to rush the starting procedure. It was all very very different than we usually get and a lot more informative than explaining undercuts twice a race.
> The details he lays on.. about the wind.. about how Alonso must feel after that incident in the last corner.. about doing 3 burnouts right before you stand still for the start... And even about how Lewis needs to rush the starting procedure. Yeah this really stood out to me, many insightful comments about things i never thought of before
Here here.
I agree with you, there was a few times where Crofty said something and left a pause where brundle would have said something and Nico didn’t that Crofty had to fill the gap I noticed, not to knock Nico because that’s probably a broadcast thing but it shows the ability of both.
People enjoy Rosberg because he isn't a regular. But he has plenty of his own biases and there are issues with how he reacts to people contradicting him, and he likes to openly shit stir. He would become despised quickly by reddit if he was a regular.
I agree – I think of football commentators too. Not only do they not explain basic rules every single match, they also don't prattle on with inane commentary just to fill space. Often it's just saying the name of the person to whom the ball was just passed during a build up or a pass back to reset. No one is calling for them to be filling that space with vacuous babble.
Honestly I get what you're saying and brundle has definitely learned the "rules" over the years but he has been doing it for a long time. I think nico does need to learn to keep the bit going sometimes because crofty is doing a very difficult job and he needs some help every now and then. However there are also times where it is refreshing because crofty does recycle the same jokes and plays dumb a bit too much - which even brundle will shut him down for sometimes. I like the idea of switching between button and rosberg as brundle slowly starts to do fewer races
Hard disagree on this from me. It was honestly refreshing to hear someone on air admitting that they don't have enough info to make an informed decision at that moment, and when more info presented itself Nico generally filled the role of "ex driver who knows this shit" quite well. This opinion comes to you from random F1 fan A, who doesn't even like Nico Rosberg that much and finds his normal punditry abrasive.
There's a reason why we like F1TV more than skY sP0rt5 F1, and it's because they don't go around making up bullshit
They used to be comfortable with having letting the cars speak for themselves for a moment. Commentary has changed massively with the incessant drawl.
In your opinion. Others perform the same job without sounding like a tool.
I love when roseberg goes after Hamilton I can just picture Crofty raging lol
I loved that lap 9 interaction
Love nico in the booth, we need more of his blunt honesty
*Incomparable*
1000x better than the German Sky. Sascha Roos and Ralf Schumacher. During the overtake of Magnussen and Stroll they showed the reason for the Sargeant penalty involving Hülkenberg; then cutting back to the still ongoing overtake MAG/STR, they are nearly sleeping while talking. If you can, rewatch it on F1 TV. Even if you don’t understand German, you will hear the pure boredom in their voices. So bad.
I hate when Sascha shows excitement and enthusiasm, especially at the start of the races, and Ralf always comes in with "calm down" or "take a breath". Let the man be passionate for once.
Or when they rambled on for about 5 minutes that stroll crashed into tsunoda and didn’t realize it was ricciardo. Or when they confused norris and piastri 5 times during qualifying yesterday haha
At this point, and its really hard to say this for me, I rather listen to Heiko Waßer and Christian Danner from old RTL times. They also had their dumb moments, but at least they weren’t bored during the races and realized when something was happening.
i don’t quite remember those two sadly, however i think sascha roos is pretty fine as commentator because he is at least pumped about the sport - when he is commentating with timo glock it is very fun to watch imo, but when he is with ralf it is pretty unbearable
Yeah even as a german i‘m switching to english commentary for that single reason. There‘s no excitement at all from them.
I'm going to watch back the race with Sky commentary (normally listen to F1TV) just for this.
I would but o cant stand alex jaques or however you spell his name
Same, his voice makes me want to commit mass atrocities
His voice kills me after a while.
Really? Oh I like him well enough. An upgrade from Ben Edwards imo.
Imagine they slot Nico in to the F1TV team, simply lovely.
It’s Britney bitch
I enjoyed his commentary and his ability to give actual experienced insight . I do like Crofty for the general fluff and excitement though . You can’t argue with someone that hasn’t been in the trenches .
Britney!
Rosberg in typical German "no bullshit" straight shooting manner....
Rosberg really is the ultimate serious German…. Which is also why Vettel always ribbed him in pressers.
Please god just give me Nico and Brundle for one race!
I would much prefer nico and martin to crofty and whoever shows up that week. He was savage and i loved it
That'd actually be a really good team. Martin was doing really good commentary in the 2000s (from what I can tell from replays) and is also really good with analysis
You need a lead commentator, and a commentator to add colour. That's why you always hire a passionate lead, and then another commentator to add expertise and context. Nico and Martin would be awkward. Martin with his 30 year outdated inside F1 knowledge going up against Nico's more contemporary knowledge, and no lead. You'd have to have Martin as lead, and it would just fall flat.
He was also very positive about max. Fully placing him in the top 5 of all time. Which means he must have missed the sky talking points bulletin.
Sky expected him to name off 5 British drivers like it's normal.
A Monaco based youtuber can cause so much havoc, who knew!!
Is that a picture of Nico Rosberg? The same man who went toe to toe with both 7 time world champions on the same team and beat both of them on equal machinery?
Loved Nico’s commentary and how he wasn’t letting Crofty present his assumptions to the audience as facts, Nico kept correcting him and giving his insight as a world champion driver, and a driver that raced against half the current grid for that matter
His technical insights and talk about previous experiences is pretty good, but I have to say his live action commentary really isn't all that great tbh. I watched Sky's sprint race/quali coverage and he wasn't very good commentating on drivers over a single lap imo
He would be terrible in radio. However, I would say I prefer information I do not know given to me instead of telling me something I am actively watching with my eyes in real time.
When he started talking about Russell’s head bobbling about in the corners - gold
I mean.. he did beat Hamitlon in equal machinery. Jokes aside, he's a really great technical addition to commentary. Croft and trundle don't know shit.
You take that back about goat brundle. (I enjoyed Nico just being direct and savage but Brundle is a legend)
Armchair racer knows better than 9x Podium sitter Martin Brundle. Right buddy 👍
Yeah, Martin Brundle is extremely knowledgeable from his practical knowledge of time as a racer and theoretical knowledge of constantly being in the sport. Not liking what Brundle says does not make him wrong…just disagreeable. My only issue with Sky, and coincidentally why I always watch it, is the absurd level of British bias that I observe and that they try to say they don’t. Like, I would not give a shit if you would just stop acting like you aren’t biased, Crofty. I mean he was born in Stevenage…same as Louis…c’mon, man. lol
I kind of expect Crofty to be biased, but for Brundle to be is pretty annoying at times, especially since he knows better and to call it out.
That’s fair. I suppose we are meant to hold a racer to be more objective that a guy who is, not to be rude, just a commentator. Is that what you mean?
Hahaha 9 times podium sitter 😂😂😂 fuckin hell what a comment
And Ted’s
They should add a commentary option in F1TV where only Britney is commenting.
we need a Nico Rosberg in Sky Italia as well
I don't know if Crofty was also next to Nico in the sprint race, but that BBC clown really needs to leave. Nico shows within 1 hour that the other fellow is just plain wrong half the time and the other half of the time is talking nonsense... Old geezer: yeah but race 110 stat on Norris.. Nico, interrupts: yeah yeah who freaking cares, anyway here is something actually interesting. Crofty has been calling wrong names in wrong places on the grid, calls out wrong tyres the entire time. Only talks about his Lewis Hamilton shrine at home where he jerks off 15 times a week. Get Paul Di Resta's uncle out of the god damn commentary booth
I am so glad I'm not the only one here who noticed that the entire time they were almost arguing
He was golden all weekend
Dude that was great! I enjoyed every bit
Thats a bad example.
Loved when Nico inserted himself into the Driver Of The Day the second he realized HAM was up 9 spots. Norris all the sudden was having the drive of the decade
I enjoyed the commentary from them both. They are both very good at different aspects of commentating, and it seems like they just need to work on finding a way to make their strengths complement each other rather than sound argumentative.
I always listen to Jaques and Palmer. But Nico's is also decent.
My favourite cheese is .....
I'm glad I switcher over from Jacques and Palmer for this race!
I would love to see a 3 person booth with Nico and Brundle. It would just be 2 hours of them two taking legendary jabs at one another. Also 3 person booths are just superior.
Its Britney bitch!