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17 Jun
2:36pm, 17 Jun 2025
53,106 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
C4 commentary is pretty good - Alex Jacques, David Couthard and Jolyon Palmer. Two drivers with varying views, and Alex Jacques is super enthusiastic, a la Murray Walker. I get frustrated by the cuts and missing bits of the race because it's really only a highlights show.
Norris is really beating himself up publicly about the mistaken. Very 21st Century man, but is it the right level of vulnerability vs. confidence that is required to be number 1?  G
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17 Jun
2:38pm, 17 Jun 2025
306 posts
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LanaD
caught a lot of Le Mans...so pleased for Kubica , great result for him.
Would love to visit Le Mans to say I've been there, but don't know how I would cope throughout weekend - would want to watch it all, but need my sleep to act normal ha ha.
as for David Croft, agree, not been his best recently, especially compared to Martin Brundle. often feel he doesn't listen to Martin. sometimes, wish I could mute or play a radio commentary instead.
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17 Jun
3:27pm, 17 Jun 2025
27,532 posts
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larkim
Just for info whilst le mans is still on the brain, I thought it was actually pretty decent vfm for an event of that size and scale
We camped which is something we're ok with, but the pitch within 5 minutes of a viewing area was only £90 for the whole week for the whole car full (i.e. not per person). Then the tickets to access the restricted areas for viewing on a general admission basis I think we're just over 110 euros each. All that included watching all practice sessions, the pit stop challenge, the pit walk, run / walk the track, support races and the ability to access all grandstands until race day itself. Compared to prices for F1 events where there is significantly less on track activity, I thought that was actually pretty good.
Obviously we had to travel too, so ferry, tolls, fuel on top of that. But we spent very little on food as we took most with us and having bikes we could access all of the extremities of the track within about 15 minutes of leaving our campsite.
If anyone is thinking of going in future years, happy to share other thoughts or tips! Tickets sell out rapidly though!!
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18 Jun
8:05am, 18 Jun 2025
21,772 posts
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SarahWoo
We watched the C4 coverage this time because we couldn’t watch it live. I found Jolyon Palmer really irritating and the skipping of laps made it very disjointed, I thought. As Happy G said, it is only highlights but I’m glad we have a son who lets us use his Sky Sports account.
I prefer a below par Crofty to Palmer, although David Coulthart is a pleasure to listen to.
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18 Jun
8:39am, 18 Jun 2025
53,112 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Oh, I think Palmer is OK, quite like that he and Coulthard sometimes have different views from driver experience. Coulthard is great though. I guess it's just opinion on different styles. Unless you spotted something completely inaccurate from Palmer, or something offensive? G
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18 Jun
10:29am, 18 Jun 2025
27,537 posts
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larkim
I like Palmer generally, though tend to encounter him on the BBC podcast mostly. He's a busy guy, if he's commentating on Ch4, he also does official F1TV analysis too as well as the BBC podcast. It surprises me how much the various pundits seem to swap and change between different broadcasters throughout the year in a way which seems to happen far less in the football world.
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18 Jun
1:35pm, 18 Jun 2025
21,777 posts
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SarahWoo
No, Happy - nothing inaccurate or offensive - it’s me, not him
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18 Jun
2:26pm, 18 Jun 2025
53,116 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Lol Sarah! G
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