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I've been catching up on the past few MotoGP races over the past few evenings (ITV have the full MotoGP race the Monday after the actual race which is pretty nice), and one thing those commentators are great at in comparison to the SkyF1 folks is catching someone tumbling down the timing screen.
There was all sorts of chopping and changing going on this race, Vettel & the Haas cars in the laps before the crash that wasn't picked up by the cameras nor the commentary. In a race as dull as this the fact that they managed to miss what looked to be a decent fight is amazing.
Same thing happened with Russell/Hamilton. Pretty much the entirety of their fight was missed and there were probably around 4/5 passes between them over the course of a lap or two.
Not quite as bad as that time at Monaco a few years back where we cut away from the only on-track overtake to see Stroll almost hit a barrier, but pretty damn dire.
Willing to bet that daft chicane will be removed for next year's race also. Pretty frustrating that the tracks getting dropped seem to be the decent ones, and the new additions are generally utter shite. Baku is pretty decent, was nice to see Istanbul back for a bit also. Zandvoort could be great with smaller cars I'm sure.
On the plus side, while the next race in Barcelona will likely be pretty dull, it'll be a good opportunity to see how the teams' upgrade packages are coming along. Looks like Red Bull have overtaken Ferrari, and I still can't get my head around the fact that Red Bull are now the team that are dominating in the straights and losing time in the corners.
Well that was a lot longer than I'd intended, apologies for your wasted time.