Commentators?

Am I the only one thinking STFU ?

 

Nope.

 

I only go to a handful of drift events in the year, but I've yet to attend one where I haven't found the commentary irritating. Not because of any slurs, but purely because they all seem really unprofessional.

I'm sure doing commentary for long events is tricky, but I have long been of the opinion (and this applies to all motorsport) that a live commentator should speak when they have something interesting to say; silence is perfectly acceptable if you have run out of facts.

Silverzx has already posted my solution for the livestreams though...

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I didn't catch any of the particular commentary thats being discussed, i was at Allstars where despite the commentary being a little stilted and cringeworthy at times (as all commentary is) there were no race or sexuality issues. I don't think it was even mentioned despite a wide range of nationalities in attendance.

Sexuality has very little if anything to do with drifting. Things are acceptable in context and given relevance and most people in and around drifting are relaxed enough not to get upset by a bit of ribbing.

Its not offensive to call someones driving a bit gay, or a big gay wing a big gay wing, its just a little irrelevant, unimaginative and all a bit playground. Aligning a particular sexuality with negativity or negative actions with sexuality is lame and should just be flat out avoided. Same with this 'Ha GAY!' thing.

The exception to this is if there is actual homo-erotic relevance. If theres a car plastered with same sex pornography or two chaps step out of their cars after an intense battle and start to plunder the depths over the bonnet then its undeniably a bit gay.

I should add, if you were that upset by it at the time you should have gone and said something to the relevant people. This is all a bit late.

 

Your doing my head in, if you don't like it don't watch it

It's like snooker I don't like it so I don't watch it

 

I was there and at times it got irritating but that was more due to the pa system being loud.
The guys commentating were/are drivers and they know the people they are making jokes about.
Sit back relax and don't take life too seriously.

 

Can you please quote the gay jokes? I watched the whole thing and never picked up on anything that would be deemed as offensive.

Unless you mean when they were talking about "big gay wing", which is what they are known as worldwide, so I can't see that being an issue.

 

a big gay wing, the gay thing is really a reference to something that is slightly unusual and considered a tad cringeworthy or unseemly by most.

which is what gay people were and maybe still are.

i can see why it annoys you, the use of your sexuality to define something as being odd or weird or different.

but i certainly understand it.

Phil

 

This thread is gay..

 

i just burst out laughing at work!


anyway... if you dont like it, don't watch/listen to it. simple!

as for the BGW comments, i've seen them listed on for sale sites as "BGW"

if you feel this strongly about it then send an email to the relevant people

 

lol whilst this was put in the worst possible way, OP has a point..but you need to pillar drill to china to find it.


Ian, Mark and Ben fair play to them, they have to stand there and talk constantly for hours on end to livestream viewers and those at the track, its not an easy thing to do.

For the mean time, the banter and jokes are fine, close to the edge but to be honest 99% of the drift crowd aint gonna give a fuck are they.
But if drifting became more mainstream, big money spinning mass TV showing juggernaut like F1 then commentary will need to change to a more professional approach but that will come naturally.

If the lads tried to take a more professional approach to it, things would be very awkward very quick as theres nothing to break it up, not enough to really talk about, no cutting to suzy in the pits etc.

 

is this something that could be for the future? a person on the start line/queue's or pits? or would the costs outway the gain?

 

I dunno how TV etc works


but if they did have a pit commentator giving the low down every so often on anything interesting then i cant see why it would cost the earth.

If you took f1 commentary for an example ill lay out how commentary "could" work

1.Commentators intro, bit of track history, how many times BDC have been to said track etc
2.In depth look at the clipping points, what the judges want to see, we have our own david Coulthards so the knowledge is there.
either do this by a quick track walk or a edited pre recorded run.
3.Cars on track, bit of info on what we got, keep it short keep it sweet, often lads are still talking about a car that went 5 minutes ago lol.
4. Quali runs, general commentary.
5. Battles, talk about each driver what they have got, talk about their quali runs.

now during all this if a pit commentator was there then they can cut to that whenever theres some interesting changes going on, go into more technical things, like if someone was making some suspension changes or someone has come in for a 5 minute rule.


this is just scraping the surface but there is plenty of meat to chew on, especially if the support is there to back it up with live cameras, edited replays etc etc.

anyway thats my view on it all

 

Hold on are these gay jokes you're referring to the comments where it was something the lines of "Oh Dan just got a bit too deep in the backside of John?" - If it is, give it a rest man! He said it, realised what he said, then they started taking the piss out of the boy who said it. Not insinuating the drivers are gay or slaggin off any gay people. Aye it was maybe a bit childish but come on its hardly going to have people raging over whats clearly a play on words/joke.