23/06/2016
NEWS STORY
Four-time world champion Alain Prost has described FOM's TV coverage of last weekend's race in Baku a "disaster" that left him "bored".
Billed as the fastest street circuit ever, in many ways the race didn't live up to expectations, the F1 drivers clearly chastened by the carnage they'd witnessed in the GP2 events.
However, it wasn't the racing that left Prost unimpressed, rather FOM's TV coverage of it.
"I did not watch Friday and Saturday so I just followed social media and everyone was saying fantastic things about the track so I was quite happy to go and put on my TV," he said, according to Autosport.
"That was a disaster for me," he continued, "I did not see the track everyone was talking about.
"The positions of the camera were not very good," he said. "It was not really a good show. There was only one corner, with the left/right, where the cars were OK, where you get the impression of the speed.
"You're watching the onboard camera and under braking, you cannot see the speed, you cannot hear the noise, you cannot see the difficulty.
"If I'm seeing what F1 is for the first time, I think I'm doing the same behind the wheel of my (road) car. I want it to show something very difficult. I was really bored."
The French legend was also critical of the actual F1 show, as witnessed from the point of view of the fan.
"I would like to see maybe smaller tracks, more done for the shows and for the ambience," he said.
"It should be much less expensive," he continued, "which means people can come with the children.
"I would go even further, to try to find a way to not make accessibility to the top racing series only for rich people."