Best way to catch up on the 2010 F1 season?

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I've closely followed F1 for the past 8 or 9 years now, but 2010 has thrown quite a few challenges at me and I haven't been able to keep up with the current season past Australia. To further complicate things, my DVR's hard drive recently died, taking all of the races with it. I want to get caught up with the events of each race sequentially, but short of...uh, "tracking down" video of the full races online, can any of you recommend a comprehensive video recap of each grand prix? A half or full-hour show that covers each weekend's highlights would be ideal. I'd look into this myself, but I am wary of taking in too many spoilers from the headlines covering all the F1 sites.

Any help you guys could provide would be greatly appreciated.
 
I don't know of any video recaps because Bernie Ecclestone doesn't like the footage appearing on the internet (he's even tried to have fan-made videos taken from the races removed). If it comes down to it, I know that Wikipedia's race reviews are pretty darn impressive (largely because I'm the one who wrote them, being a semi-professional writer and all).
 
Failing that - get a UK proxy and check out the BBC website - they tend to carry quite a lot of videos of various bits and pieces... not sure how long each race stays up for though...

C.
 
Yeah, pretty much as Yeti said, the BBC site has highlights of all qualifying and races (around 10-15 minutes highlights).
Bahrain qualifying here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8566034.stm (though the BBC does spoil it with the titles).

Only thing is you need to be in the UK, so the only way to view them is by proxy.
Other than that, the only other source of video is f1.com and youtube. You could always try torrents too.
 
You'll have to have some patience for this approach, but once the season is over, Speed channel re-broadcasts all the races each week. So, if you set your DVR to record All broadcasts of Formula 1 Racing on Speed, as opposed to just new ones, you'll be able to catch up, eventually.

If you we're hoping to get caught up before the season comes to an end, this won't be any help at all.
 
Thanks for letting me know about those BBC highlights - that sounds like exactly what I need! :cheers:
 
No probs.

There's some pretty damn cool extra vids on there too - like Brundle in a 599XX round Fiorano.

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