Hi everybody at Moto GP Forum,
I am also an eager follower of MotoGP, one of the best sports around. Over the last couple of years I have been increasingly annoyed by all these TV shots from the pit of the team we have to look at at important moments during the race. So I wrote the letter below to Dorna, and I am posting here, to see if anybody else agrees with me and perhaps will also tell Dorna that their TV producers should do a better job.
(Btw.: I can highly recommend www.racing-underground.com if you for some reason are nearer a high speed internet connetion than a TV with the right channel, or just whant to relive a race)
----- Original Message -----
From:
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 1:55 PM
Subject: To many shots of pit crew
Dear Dorna,
I watch most of the rounds of the MotoGP championship, which I enjoy very much. One thing irritates my a bit though, it is all these shots of the pit crew and team bosses and riders girlfriends that you show during the races. Often when Rossi or Stoner has passed the leader, you immediately cut to a picture of the crew cheering, sometimes there is also a shot of the fans (much better). Also whenever somebody falls of, we have to look at his crew making gestures of "that's to bad, hope he is ok". A prime example was in the 125 race at Motegi last weekend where Mike De Meglio fell down from 2nd place, at this point it is very interesting to see in which position he rejoins, number 4 or 6, but no no, we had to look at the pit crew again.
When following the races on Eurosport, as many of us do, you also notice that a lot of the commentators all over Europe are annoyed with this, they say things like "let's switch back to the racing", "if we could get a shot of that". Of course everybody agrees that we want to see the passing action, and it can be difficult to prioritize which riders and battles should be in focus, but the easiest way of making sure we don't miss to much, is to cut down on all these shots of the team and crew. After all this is not a soap opera, most of us watch because we find the racing interesting in itself we don't need to look at other people who also find it interesting, in order to know that it is. Shots of the crew was invented in F1, where it makes better sense because of their pit stops, and because there is usually no action at all on the race track, let's leave it to them, and if they must be in MotoGP, they should only be shown in periods of low action on track.
Yours sincerely,
I am also an eager follower of MotoGP, one of the best sports around. Over the last couple of years I have been increasingly annoyed by all these TV shots from the pit of the team we have to look at at important moments during the race. So I wrote the letter below to Dorna, and I am posting here, to see if anybody else agrees with me and perhaps will also tell Dorna that their TV producers should do a better job.
(Btw.: I can highly recommend www.racing-underground.com if you for some reason are nearer a high speed internet connetion than a TV with the right channel, or just whant to relive a race)
----- Original Message -----
From:
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 1:55 PM
Subject: To many shots of pit crew
Dear Dorna,
I watch most of the rounds of the MotoGP championship, which I enjoy very much. One thing irritates my a bit though, it is all these shots of the pit crew and team bosses and riders girlfriends that you show during the races. Often when Rossi or Stoner has passed the leader, you immediately cut to a picture of the crew cheering, sometimes there is also a shot of the fans (much better). Also whenever somebody falls of, we have to look at his crew making gestures of "that's to bad, hope he is ok". A prime example was in the 125 race at Motegi last weekend where Mike De Meglio fell down from 2nd place, at this point it is very interesting to see in which position he rejoins, number 4 or 6, but no no, we had to look at the pit crew again.
When following the races on Eurosport, as many of us do, you also notice that a lot of the commentators all over Europe are annoyed with this, they say things like "let's switch back to the racing", "if we could get a shot of that". Of course everybody agrees that we want to see the passing action, and it can be difficult to prioritize which riders and battles should be in focus, but the easiest way of making sure we don't miss to much, is to cut down on all these shots of the team and crew. After all this is not a soap opera, most of us watch because we find the racing interesting in itself we don't need to look at other people who also find it interesting, in order to know that it is. Shots of the crew was invented in F1, where it makes better sense because of their pit stops, and because there is usually no action at all on the race track, let's leave it to them, and if they must be in MotoGP, they should only be shown in periods of low action on track.
Yours sincerely,
