It was the BBC who went to Sky and frogmarched them into Bernie with the offer of the deal we have now. The BBC did it because the alternative was that there was no F1 on the BBC and the BBC terminated their contract early. This situation has very little to do with 'theft' of the rights by Sky, and everything to do with the current situation where the Governement are refusing to increase the licence fee.
We, who pay, have had no say whatever in the price of the licence fee, and whether or not we want our F1 and other sports paid for from it. For example, if you consider that it is a good use of the licence fee to make programmes like Flog It and all all the reality stuff, and then cut the sports covered to almost zero (or the opposite) you have no say - the Government have just dictated that this is what the BBC do.
I have never paid a single penny to Murdoch since he took over the Sun in 1969. We knew then he was a nasty piece of work, and nothing that has happened since has done anything to change that. Why people pay money to a company that breaks the Law, invades people's privacy and prints lies about people based solely on hacking their 'phones and e-mails is beyond me.
So when discussing this change, please remember that the BBC did it all, and Sky did nothing despite their current advertising that infers they have been the clever ones.
Rant over... All those cars with the step-down noses are ugly! The McLaren looks nice, but Gary Anderson seems to infer that it will lose performance if it doesn't have one of these carbuncles on it's front end. We'll see...
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