Carlos Sainz has criticised the way Formula 1 broadcasts live races, saying there is an over-emphasis on the reactions of driver girlfriends and celebrities during key moments.<\/p>\n
Sainz\u2019s epic charge through the field from the back of the field to 10th at the end of the Singapore Grand Prix was completely missed on live coverage of the race, one which was largely lacking in excitement.<\/p>\n
The live coverage also barely focused on Fernando Alonso almost catching Ferrari\u2019s Lewis Hamilton over the final laps, with most of the on-track footage focusing on Max Verstappen holding off Lando Norris in the fight for second.<\/p>\n
While TV broadcasters control what their coverage looks like around live sessions and the race, on-track footage is controlled by a singular world feed directed by Formula 1.<\/p>\n
It has become common for race footage to feature cutaways to the reactions of girlfriends, family members and celebrities in the garage, something Sainz thinks is an old-fashioned approach to showing sports.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s becoming a bit of a trend, which must have worked for them once upon a time when people found it interesting to see our girlfriends, to see famous people on TV, the reactions,\u201d Sainz told Spain\u2019s El Partidazo de COPE.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand that if there is an overtake, a very tense moment in the race, it is understandable that the production team might want to show a reaction shot if they have seen that it has worked in the past… but [they only should] if the competition is respected and you are always showing the important momentes of the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast weekend they didn\u2019t show any of the four of five overtakes I did at the end. Nor did they show Fernando\u2019s pursuit of Lewis… they missed a lot of things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sainz suggested Formula 1 needs to reassess where the line is between the sport and the spectacle is.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other [thing] is fine but don\u2019t lose sight of the main thing. For me, they go overboard a little showing the celebrities and girlfriends,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes there are so many VIPs in the paddock you can\u2019t even walk. We move by bike or scooter [in the paddock] because if you don\u2019t, you just can\u2019t get around.\u201d<\/p>\n
F1 continues with the U.S. Grand Prix at Austin\u2019s Circuit of the Americas on Oct. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Sainz has criticised the way Formula 1 broadcasts live races, saying there is an over-emphasis on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[2571,49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-197531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-auto-racing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}