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Originally Posted by hedgie
What do we think of these "twilight" races ?
My opinion is that the sport should revert to afternoon races whatever the time zone. In Australia the low sun angles seemed to compromise the TV pictures and it was hard to spot the different cars. I'm not sure about the rest of Europe but with the improved TV coverage on the Beeb and more TV channels to show programmes "as live" I dont see the problem.
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The amount of channels is not really that relevant. The main problem is that (for sponsorship reasons), F1 needs a lot of viewers. This isn't gonna happen if the countries with the largest potential audiences are in darkness when the races happen. The hardcore fans will happily stay up, and some others will happily record it to watch later, or use services like iPlayer, but they also need the viewers who might just glimpse it while channel surfing.