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[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by bluesport

Skaife backs down?

https://www.news.com.au/sport/motors...c86947ec6b2bb6

Doesn’t read that way..

Clumsy and amateur are the words that probably describe the incident best..

[Adam43]

Originally Posted by chavez

Overall, the sport has not benefited from the greater role played by engineers, strategists and other advisors, especially in their ability to communicate with the drivers in real-time.

We might recall the F1 tried to limit what could be discussed between driver and engineer in the race, but the team claimed that such a limit was a safety issue and the restrictions fell away.

It went away because it was stupid! Or at least the way they tried to do it was.

The safety thing was not really the issue. That’s like that banning of Christmas stories.

The main problem is that we’ve got a handle on how things work now. Tyres, aero, etc…

Not that I’m against a ban of pits to car radio. Let the person who knows how to boringly save the tyres without the engineer telling them win.

[Langers]

Originally Posted by Alan52

It’s the opinion of nearly anyone that has to listen to his 10 cliche vocabulary.A few years ago Speedcafe ran of poll of favourite Supercar TV commentators.Skaife was down near the bottom with pit reporters like Andrew Jones.
Both him and Crompton are hopelessly conflicted and need to decide whether they want to be commentators or Supercar office holders.

Bizarre, I'd say they're my 2 favourite commentators by far. Crompo a clear 1st ahead of Skaife, though.

[Alan52]

Originally Posted by Langers

Bizarre, I'd say they're my 2 favourite commentators by far. Crompo a clear 1st ahead of Skaife, though.

Doesn’t it bother you that they never utter a critical comment about anything or anyone Supercars?Drivers,teams,officials,events or anything?
Neil said that he once made a critical comment about a DSO decision at Winton over 20 years ago that upset some people and has deliberately avoided saying anything that might upset anyone ever since.That’s not commentary it’s banal cheerleading.