Re: The first live race .....
John D
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> ..... that i'm going to watch for ages .
>
> Usually I tape it so I can fast forward though all the crap as I class a
> taped race the same as a live race if you dont know the result .
>
>
> The question , When was the very first live f1 race shown on tv ? .
1994 they showed the Brazilian GP as a one off with BBC at Interlagos.
Geoff May
I used to watch F1 live on TV in South Africa from hte late 70's so I
very much doubt that 1994 was the first live GP...
MfG
Geoff.
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Brian Lawrence
> ..... that i'm going to watch for ages .
>
> Usually I tape it so I can fast forward though all the crap as I class a
> taped race the same as a live race if you dont know the result .
>
>
> The question , When was the very first live f1 race shown on tv ? .
The BBC covered the British Grand Prix most years from the mid-1950s on.
Raymond Baxter did the commentary with John Bolster reporting from the
pits.
The Beeb also did the other major GPs with Baxter at the microphone -
France, Italy, Germany, Monaco. On occasions when Baxter was not available
his stand in was Murray Walker.
Here's a Murray quote, "From 1949 to 1978 I did only the occasional races for
the BBC," he remembers. "I did Jacky Ickx winning at the Nurburgring in 1969
and Clay Regazzoni when he won there in a Ferrari, whatever year that was but
I really only did the odds and ends because BBC's regular motor racing
commentator Raymond Baxter could not be there or whatever. So it was really
not until 1978 - the year Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson dominated the
World Championship for Lotus - that started doing all the commentaries. And we
did not go to all the races. I remember doing the World Championship finale at
Fuji in Japan in 1976. It was a very last-minute thing because they were not
going to show it but because James Hunt was leading the World Championship and
might win it they decided that they should do it and I had to go into Television
Centre at White City in London at around four o'clock in the morning for the race.
I was very glad I did because it was a tremendous occasion but it was a very
confusing race - particularly when one was in London!"
"I was talking with the pictures coming through from Japan and you can get a
pretty good idea of what is going on and then we had someone in Japan acting as
a spotter at the track. Nowadays - with modern technology - if you make the right
arrangements you can get all the timesheets and everything."
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John Briggs
> John D wrote:
>> "GH" <inv...@ganjahost.co.uk.INVALID> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.1d164af8...@no-cancel.newsreader.com...
>>
>>> ..... that i'm going to watch for ages .
>>>
>>> Usually I tape it so I can fast forward though all the crap as I
>>> class a taped race the same as a live race if you dont know the
>>> result . The question , When was the very first live f1 race shown on tv
>>> ? .
>>
>> 1994 they showed the Brazilian GP as a one off with BBC at
>> Interlagos.
>
> I used to watch F1 live on TV in South Africa from hte late 70's so I
> very much doubt that 1994 was the first live GP...
That was when all races started to be broadcast. The first live GP would
have been very early - a British Grand Prix as a one-off on the BBC, I would
expect.
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John Briggs