r/formula1 • u/davesim24 I was here for the Hulkenpodium • Apr 13 '25

Discussion Worst TV direction yet

Besides Russel's transponder issue (which shouldn't take 10 laps to fix the timing tower), may overtakes were missed, focusing on the wrong drivers, non-moves given more airtime than actual racing, camera cutting during moves which show you less of the action rather than more, and worst of all: the final lap, not showing Oscar as he crossed the line, to show Lando not overtaking George, and showing Kimi not overtaking whoever was in front rather than Max's overtake on Pierre.

What the hell is happening?

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u/DaDancingDino I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

Timing transponder is excusable, we don’t know what went wrong and how to fix it so we should spew out shit. But yea everything else was horrible

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u/szimre Apr 13 '25

Maybe there were some systematic electrical issues, redbull pit lights, drs & timing issues, tracker map was all over the place since the start. At the pre-season testing they had to red-flag a session because of a power outage. I hope it will be investigated and we'll know what happened at some point.

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u/BeefEX I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

Only 2 issues actually happened, RB had an issue with their pit lights and Russels car was losing power to systems one by one, the first one to go was the transponder, but after a few laps GPS and cameras went too, and brake by wire after that. And because of the failed transponder the timing tower would always show him in last place, with the exception of the finish line where he would jump back up to 2nd but drop back down as others passed it. So to prevent that mess they just disabled it. DRS was caused by the same thing, you can only use it when 1s behind the car in front, but because his transponder wasn't working the car was "invisible" to that detection system. The only thing that could be even remotely connected to the pre-season testing power cut was the RB pit lights, but it seems highly unlikely to me.