Method 1 has responded to criticism of tv protection of its races by Carlos Sainz Jnr, insisting that it strives to offer “the absolute best footage” of occasions.
Protection of final weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, managed by Method One Administration’s (FOM) tv manufacturing staff, obtained important criticism from followers on social media.
Followers have been vocal of their disapproval of what they thought of an extreme quantity of photographs of drivers’ companions within the pit lane, in addition to a number of on-track overtakes throughout the race not being broadcast and a tense ultimate lap battle between Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso over seventh place being ignored fully following the chequered flag.
Sainz, who began Sunday’s race from 18th and rose to complete within the factors, had few of his battles for place featured on FOM’s world feed throughout the course of his race. Chatting with Spanish programme El Partidazo de Cope, Williams driver Sainz cautioned towards the amount of storage response photographs of drivers’ important others throughout dwell races.
“It’s turning into a little bit of a development, which should have labored for them as soon as upon a time when individuals discovered it attention-grabbing to see our girlfriends, to see well-known individuals on TV, the reactions,” Sainz stated.
“I perceive that if there’s an overtake, a really tense second within the race, it’s comprehensible that the manufacturing staff may wish to present a response shot if they’ve seen that it has labored previously… however (solely) if the competitors is revered and you might be all the time displaying the essential moments of the race.”
In response to Sainz’s feedback, Method 1 has insisted that it’s glad with the standard of race protection that FOM’s producers and administrators are offering to followers over the world feed.
“We all the time deal with giving our followers the absolute best footage of the race and by no means compromise the important thing focus – the racing on monitor,” stated an F1 spokesperson in a press release to RaceFans.
“Our staff does an amazing job of masking a extremely complicated state of affairs with a number of automobiles at completely different factors on a monitor and likewise present nice context moments of the grandstands, excessive profile friends and the areas we race at. We’re all the time in pursuit of excellence and enchancment in what we ship.”
Sainz scored the ultimate level in final weekend’s race, ending tenth. It was Sainz’s second consecutive factors end following his podium putting in Azerbaijan and moved the Williams driver as much as twelfth place within the drivers’ championship, equal on factors with Lance Stroll.
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