OOH! AH! I thought I heard Paul Page...
Uhm?
Now I'm torn between ABC and IMS Radio, something I thought I'd never say; Hya!
As I was curious who ABC's Pitlane
Reporters would be this year, since I'd discovered that Jamie Little and Vince
Neil; Err Welch were doin' Duh Taxicab thingy over on FOX.
Since Y'all may know that I pretty much just
listen to motor races these days since I basically cannot S-E-E the cars and
hence I depend more upon the voices then the camera's eyes. And not being
overly fond of some of ABC's On Air talent; can Y'all say Eddie Cheever! I
pondered listening to the season's first race via the radio broadcast instead?
But having discovered my favourite IndyCar
Pitlane Reporter "Professor B," aka Jon Beekhuis has
returned to ESPN this season "Justin-time," nee March 28.Thus instead,
I 'decided to tune into the ABC TV Broadcast despite not wanting to hear Eddie
Cheever's voice, or being put to sleep by Scott "Somonex" Goodyear; Hooah!
Although I must say Alan Bestwick is
quite refreshing, and I've always
enjoyed Dr. Jerry Punch's silky smoothness and Rick ' O’Doulz DeBruhl should
keep me suitably awake with his snappiness; whilst hangin' on Professor B's (Beekhuis)
every word!
Uhm, speaking 'O sleep, I could go for some
right now... Having gorged thyself upon Motorsports this past weekend,
primarily of the Open Wheel variety, aka Formula 1 and IndyCar whilst getting
OUTFOXED by FS1's lack of programming description on my NFB Newsline for The
Blind TV Guide telephone service... Since
the 6AM wake-up call was for Naught!
But I did spend several hours listening to
Indy Cars via Zed Internetz via the IMS Radio Network, which I'm happy to say
worked Bloody Well A-L-L weekend long; WRONG! Up until the crucial bit, thee
race; Aye Karumba!
Although I now know my constant interference
Problemas I SCREEMED 'bout last year were akin to my then pathetically SLOW
Internetz speed, which I finally had increased this year after being unable to
listen to Autosport Radio without interference anymore...
As it seems that may be some of my ranting
wore off? NOT! As
I was pleasantly surprised that I NO longer had to hunt for the un S-E-E able
to Mwah Play symbol icon in the middle of the live Timing & Scoring page
when I opened IndyCar's "Race Control" webpage.
Except for this
inexplicably NOT occurring during the race, when I fumbled away for an
overly PAINFUL 45mins trying to figure out where the Play button was hiding now
- during caution periods; SHIT!
And the Sound Board Operator seemed to get
Dialed-in over the weekend, as the majority of Mark Graveley' James and Jake
"The Riddler" Query's calls from Trackside were audible. While
Pitlane Reporters Nick 'Salt Yeoman and Dave First came BOOMIN' IN! Along with enjoying "the
Voice," aka Paul Page, and even Davey Hamilton sounded pumped up over the
first IndyCar outing.
the only complaint over the "Live
Streaming" webcast's was the inconsistency of NOT being able to figure out
why I couldn't get any sound for the first Indy Lights race? (Ditto the IndyCar
race!) As every time prior during the IndyCar
practices, the show had simply started upon opening the page.
Thus, scurrying 'round Zed Internetz, I got
mildly Torqued Off when it took me to Lap-18 of 30 to finally hear Zachery
Veach's voice, after searching 'N searching for some miniscule, hidden Play
Button; WTF!
As its weird that for the Indy Lights, you've
got to find the Radio Broadcast "Strip" and then fumble 'round
underneath for the hidden buttons... Which is
what this legally blind Keyboard Warrior had to do for some FREAKIN'
25mins; SHEISA! As this function has changed again this year...
Otherwise, the Indycar.com Race Control page worked
fine during IndyCar practice & Qualifying. just really DON'T understand why
the difference for the two different racing series? As I prefer the simplicity
of just opening the page and hearing
Paul Page's voice without needing to try finding that tiny, somewhat not
illuminated Play "Arrow" button...
While I find I-T totally UNEXCUSABLE that the
"Radio Broadcast Strip" was totally NOT visually noticeable to Mwah
during the IndyCar race, as this is NOT acceptable for a legally blind IndyCar
Fan!
As once again I needed to fumble round the
page searching for the Radio Broadcast strip Sunday morning (prior to the Indy
Lights second race) after the slightly delayed final IndyCar practice, i.e.;
morning warm-up session started playing on its own when I was trying to get a
Jump Start on the Lights Broadcast at 9:33AM Pacific.
Then Mark Graveley' James said the Lights
race broadcast would begin at 9:53AM Pacific, but it took a further ten minutes
along with several attempts of clicking the Play arrow symbol before the audio
broke in with some Gal's giving the command to fire engines, as I did get to
hear the entire second Lights race, but NEVER did S-E-E how to make the Audio
play during the IndyCar race itself, and instead soldiered thru the ABC TV
Broadcast instead...