indian snore prix

Indian Grand Prix this last weekend and it was a pretty rubbish race.

It was a race the BBC only showed highlights of and unlike some of the others it was probably a race that really only deserved highlights.  I listened on the radio and watched the TV coverage.  The clocks went back, which made pre-setting the recording difficult, but then coverage started at about 9:30 so I was up and about anyway.

I actually did some stuff on the computer while it was on but didn't really miss anything.  Indeed, the radio coverage seemed to focus quite a lot on other stuff, rather than what was (not) happening on track.

What was weird is they seemed to big up the race quite a bit beforehand.  I guess when you're spending lots of money to show races you're not going to do the race down, but I seem to recall last year wasn't that great either.  Quite whey they were describing it as one of Tilka's best and a circuit the driver's love I'm not sure.

Well, I guess what the driver's love and what the spectators love can be quite different things, but still, it was a bit of a damp squib of a race by all accounts.

What was interesting is that the TV coverage flattered the race - they trimmed out so much of the dull stuff that it seemed much more exciting than it was.  What was really telling having listened to both is that the highlights didn't have any exciting bits missing - in a really exciting race they would have had to make choices about what to leave out for want of time, but here they had to put in some of the less exciting moments to pad it out.

Unfortunately from a championship point of view Vettel also extended his lead - not by much and he very nearly got scuppered by a technical problem at the end, but still, it now looks like Vettel and Red Bull really have the momentum.