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British F3’s Very Near Miss

Motorsport Blog March 29, 2016 1 Comment

The BRDC British Formula 3 Championship blasted into action at Snetterton at the weekend, #DownforceDebrief and Piers Prior reviewed the action. There was one incident that came to light from race two, where another driver almost ploughed into Australian Thomas Randle.
https://www.facebook.com/thomas.randle194/videos/10206329444295134/

Thomas published the video himself on his facebook profile commenting “This is why you don’t want to start from last…”

The British Formula 3 Championship is next in action on 16/17 April at Brands Hatch.

Debrief – David Pittard, Piers Prior & John Munro

Debrief Shows March 28, 2016

On this week’s show: John Munro, Piers Prior, Paul Clark, Tom Brooks and DAVID PITTARD

RUNNING ORDER
00:00 – Start
06:36 – British Truck Racing Championship @ Brands Review with Jake Sanson, Scott Woodwiss & Alex Goldschmidt.
22:20 – COOL FAB Racing @ Llandow Review
29:38 – COOL FAB Racing @ Llandow Sat Highlights
38:40 – BRDC British F3 Round 1 Review
55:18 – Silverstone Review with Dave Goddard
68:19 – BTCC Preview and Lester’s Piers Prior Prediction and Interrogation
73:16 – David Pittard Interview by Alex Goldschmidt.
84:00 – Weekend Preview
94:30 – Scottish FF1600 Preview with John Munro
116:08 – John Munro’s Driver Video Blog Preview

Thanks again for listening!

Shall we have a whip-round for Piers for him to get a drive in MSA Formula/British F3?

The COOL FAB Racing Llandow Saturday Highlights was produced by Louis Suddaby

The David Pittard Interview was produced by Alex Goldshmidt

This show was produced by Lester Forbes/Motorsport.Media for Downforce Radio

BREAKING NEWS – Sky gets exclusive F1 coverage from 2019

Motorsport Blog March 23, 2016 10 Comments

Sky have announce a new deal that will extend it’s F1 coverage on SkySports until 2024 and giving it exclusive rights.

F1’s commercial rights holder said “I am delighted that we will continue to work together, Sky’s commitment to the sport and standard of coverage is second to none”

Sky have agreed to show highlights of races and qualifying free of charge, The broadcaster has said that The British GP will be broadcasst on a “free-to-air” basis along with two other ‘prime time’ races.

Sky currently share a broadcast deal with Channel 4 which sees the public service channel show 10 live races per season following the BBC’s withdrawal of it’s contract last year.

Martin Brundle, commentator said today “I joined Sky Sports because I wanted to be part of a dedicated F1 channel with a total and long term commitment to the sport. And we have certainly delivered on that. In a fast changing media landscape, our coverage will get even better for F1 fans.”

Share your thoughts on this, and tune into PitBored tomorrow live at 8pm for all the reaction to this epic announcement.

British Formula 3 is back!

Motorsport Blog March 23, 2016

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MSV has announced that it’s BRDC F4 Championship will be renamed as “BRDC British Formula 3 Championship” with immediate effect.

Since launching as an affordable entry level single-seater championship three years ago, BRDC F4 has gone from strength to strength boasting live TV coverage, while crowning Jake Hughes, George Russell and Will Palmer as champions.

For 2016, the championship has attracted many big names making the switch from MSA Formula including champion Lando Norris as well as Ricky Collard and Enaam Ahmed.

The championship in 2016 has a brand new car, the FA-016 Tatuus-Cosworth, which is a lot more powerful than the previous Ralph Firman car and close to the performance of a typical F3 car.

Jonathan Palmer, Chief Executive of BRDC British F3 promoter MSV, said: “I am delighted that we have successfully worked with the FIA and MSA to streamline British single seater motorsport and establish a clear and logical hierarchy for both drivers and teams. Our much advanced 2016 BRDC F4 Tatuus-Cosworth car has proved an outstanding success, being very close to the performance of British F3 in its heyday – but at less than half the budget. Cost effectiveness and value for money is critical to any championship’s health, and having set standards with our BRDC F4 Championship we are now doing the same at F3 level with the BRDC British F3 Championship.”

The winner of this year’s F3 Championship will join a long list of star names to have graced British F3 in the past including, Ayrton Senna, Jim Clark, Mika Hakkinen.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hjRq31MmUDywhH_Vw9mbsbQm0fyYQF38W1hMVZrt38I/edit?usp=sharing

Debrief 21/3/2016

Debrief Shows March 21, 2016

On this week’s show: John Munro, Piers Prior, Ben McPhillips, Ryan Ferris, Vicky & Dom to debrief all the latest news and talk about the problems with F1 and various things, Hosted by Lester Forbes.

Running Order
[spp-timestamp time=”0:00″] – Start
[spp-timestamp time=”5:23″] – The News
[spp-timestamp time=”22:24″] – Oulton Park Review (Jake Sanson rounds up all the action)
[spp-timestamp time=”27:00″] – John Munro’s weekend at Oulton Park
[spp-timestamp time=”38:41 “]- MotoGP debrief
[spp-timestamp time=”55:41”] – F1 Chat (Brought to you by the Addicted to F1 Facebook group)
– F1 Qualifying
– Grosjean/Haas’s P6 was an absolute fluke?
– Are Williams slipping into obscurity again?
– Jolyon Palmer, not as bad as we thought he would be
– It wasn’t luck that Fernando escaped unhurt.
– Ben dispelling safety myths

Thanks for listening/downloading.

get juicy previews of who’s on future shows on twitter @dforcedebrief
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Is Bernie Ecclestone similar to Donald Trump?

Motorsport Blog March 15, 2016

On this week’s Debrief show during a discussion about how to stop people talking F1 down and boring us to death by critisizing it all the time, I proposed that most of the damage to

I suggested that in order to stop the commercial rights holder of Formula 1 from damaging the brand even more we and other media should stop paying attention to his always well timed outrageous and controversial statements. It was during this discussion when pannelist Vicky Selwyn

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BikeLive presenter Louis Suddaby said “I think we’ve just got to shut the man up, just stop putting a microphone infront of his face, he’s second to Lewis Hamilton in terms of when you put a microphone infront of his face, he’s bound to talk some sort of cobblers on the way so just stop interviewing the guy, the problem is that he’s a magnet for interviewers, they will always try and ask him questions because they know he’s going to come out with some sort of nonsense when they do”

Dean Stoneman “I could have done GP2 this year”

Motorsport Blog March 15, 2016

“My aim is to get into IndyCar, that would be the dream”

“There was options but I’ve got to take the best option which is the best one for my career, I could have done GP2 this year, but to try and get into Formula 1, its so limited now, the doors are closing, even someone like Stoffell Vandoorne who’s won GP2 still couldn’t get into Formula 1.

Debrief 14/3/16 – STONEMAN & HAWKSWORTH

Debrief Shows March 14, 2016

Lester is BACK! with a new theme tune for a new season. New Pannelists and some cool new things…..it’s all new basically. very… very new.
On the panel this week: John Munro, Louis Suddaby, Paul Owen, Dom Mottram, Vicky Selwyn and Adrian Rickard.

Running Order:
[spp-timestamp time=”0:00″] – Show Start
[spp-timestamp time=”7:36″] – Formula E Mexican ePrix Review
[spp-timestamp time=”19:12″] – World Superbikes Thailand Review
[spp-timestamp time=”33:43″] – IndyLights St Petersburg Review with Adrian Rickard
[spp-timestamp time=”38:37″] – DEAN STONEMAN INTERVIEW
[spp-timestamp time=”50:54″] – IndyCar St Pete Review with Adrian Rickard
[spp-timestamp time=”66:18″] – JACK HAWKSWORTH INTERVIEW
[spp-timestamp time=”85:24″] – Formula 1 Chat in association with the Addicted to F1 facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/AddictedToF1/
[spp-timestamp time=”116:32min”] – Has Vicky gone off Romain Grosjean?

Thank you very much for listening!

If you would like to have your say on future shows, email: lester@downforce-radio.co.uk, or on FB/twitter/skype @downforceradio

Stuff from the show….

https://twitter.com/Formula1Paddock/status/706807763960254464

Channel 4 unveils it’s F1 broadcast team

Motorsport Blog March 8, 2016 1 Comment

Channel 4 has revealed it’s team for their coverage of Formula 1®. Former X Factor USA and life-long F1 fan Steve Jones will host each show alongside David Coulthard, while former BBC F1 commentator & Formula Ford 1600 racer Ben Edwards will continue his lead commentary role next to Coulthard. Lee McKenzie will take up lead pitlane reporting duties with Karun Chandhok being the technical analyst.

The broadcaster has announced a collection of famous faces and legends of the sport who will drop in to enhance coverage on various race weekends. These include Susie Wolff, Eddie Jordan, Bruno Senna, Alain Prost, Mark Webber, Alex Zanardi, Nic Hamilton and Murray Walker.

Speaking at the unveiling of the new team, Channel 4’s Chief Creative Officer Jay Hunt said:

“This is the dream team – we’ve brought together the very best in screen and off screen talent to make Channel 4’s coverage unmissable.”

Channel 4 will broadcast live coverage of ten Grands Prix each season, including practice sessions and qualifying, all live races to be broadcast without advertising breaks. Channel 4 will also show comprehensive highlights of all 21 races of the FIA Formula One World Championship.

Channel 4 coverage will begin over the weekend of March 18th with build up and comprehensive highlights of the 2016 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix weekend. Channel 4’s first live race will be the 2016 Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix, broadcast over the weekend of April 1st to 3rd.

Live Races

Bahrain – 1^st – 3^rd April (4.00pm)

Spain – 13^th – 15^th May (1.00pm)

Europe (Azerbaijan) – 17^th – 19^th June (TBC)

Britain – 8^th – 10^th July (1.00pm)

Hungary – 22^nd – 24^th July (1.00pm)

Belgium – 26^th – 28^th August (1.00pm)

Italy – 2^nd – 4^th September (1.00pm)

Malaysia – 30^th September – 2^nd October (8.00am)

Mexico – 28^th – 30^th October (7.00pm)

Abu Dhabi – 25^th – 27^th November (1.00pm)

All Channel 4 F1 coverage will be broadcast free-to-air and in high definition.

https://twitter.com/C4F1/status/707164987937001473

POLL: Should F1 teams limit the data they can measure on cars?

Motorsport Blog March 7, 2016

#DownforceDebrief show returns for 2016 next Monday with Lester, with the full introduction in place this season in F1 for what drivers and teams can say over radio he would like to know: Would it be a good idea to limit the data teams can measure on a car to re-introduce uncertainty into races?

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