Components 1 has responded to criticism of tv protection of its races by Carlos Sainz Jnr, insisting that it strives to offer “the very best footage” of occasions.
Protection of final weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, managed by Components One Administration’s (FOM) tv manufacturing crew, acquired vital criticism from followers on social media.
Followers had been vocal of their disapproval of what they thought-about an extreme quantity of photographs of drivers’ companions within the pit lane, in addition to a number of on-track overtakes through the race not being broadcast and a tense closing lap battle between Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso over seventh place being ignored utterly 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 through the course of his race. Talking to Spanish programme El Partidazo de Cope, Williams driver Sainz cautioned towards the quantity of storage response photographs of drivers’ vital others throughout stay races.
“It’s changing into a little bit of a pattern, which will need to have labored for them as soon as upon a time when folks discovered it attention-grabbing to see our girlfriends, to see well-known folks on TV, the reactions,” Sainz mentioned.
“I perceive that if there may be an overtake, a really tense second within the race, it’s comprehensible that the manufacturing crew may need to present a response shot if they’ve seen that it has labored previously… however (solely) if the competitors is revered and you’re all the time displaying the essential moments of the race.”
In response to Sainz’s feedback, Components 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 very best footage of the race and by no means compromise the important thing focus – the racing on observe,” mentioned an F1 spokesperson in a press release to RaceFans.
“Our crew does an ideal job of overlaying a extremely complicated state of affairs with a number of vehicles at totally different factors on a observe and in addition present nice context moments of the grandstands, excessive profile visitors and the places 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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