I have been a fan of F1 and just about all motobike racing since I can remember. I lived in Europe for twenty-four years and in all that time I attended thousends of races and loved them all. Now that I am back home in Canada I cannot jump on my bike and go watch a race as everything is that much further away. So Like most people I watch on TV. Have any of you ever seen a Datoner 200 race on TV. I bet you haven't and I do not think that you ever will. All you see are CLOSE UPS of the bikes. The TV companies have spent all their pennies on Camera technoligy like cameras that travel along on cables. The camera operator zooms in for a close-up shot and stays with it all the way through the corner. If I wanted a shot like that I would buy a bloody poster. You NEVER get a fell for the race, nor do you get a sence of speed. Hell you don't even get a sence of motion. All you get are a series of close-ups that do nothing but detract from the race its self. In terms of motobike receing it is one of the best races of the year but you would never know it by waching it on TV. That kind of coverage is creeping into all moto sports and that STINKS. We do NOT want to fill our screen with nothing but close-ups, we want to SEE a race. Step back 25/30 years, PAN BACK and show us a race. Thanks for giving me a place to make my point.

Good call. That is why European touring cars , MotoGP etc. is cool to watch because of clean camera/switch work. How about some of those F1 follow shots at Spa ?

Yeah, that zoom crap gets annoying. Like a family member trying to videotape a dog in the back yard. Amateur hour.