Bondo - Weekly Complaint box

James is comfortable in his own skin.  Ricky, not so much. 

This is beyond embarrassing. 

Yet another round as leaders are constantly battling within 2.5 seconds and they jump out to 8th place battles. How, how can you just be so bad at this? Stop forcing the camera on a rider and then the announcer switches to talk about said rider only for viewers to be moved on to another rider again. 

Astonishing how crappy production is

Fantastic racing in the 450 main with Hunter zeroing in on Kenny, but let's have a split screen for 3 fucking laps following Sexton flopping around in 9th instead. I get that Monster is a title sponsor of the series but fucking hell, really??

I think we have to applaud the team for NOT showing interviews during the races. Thank you broadcast team for once! 

Last night was pretty bad. Aside from the impromptu cuts, they had multiple instances where the wrong rider or position was shown while following someone else around the track. 

Yes , a big well done for that , but for the love of GOD stop trying to show the whole race with the fucking drone, there were multiple instances of things (Anderson Crash for 1) that we missed because they followed the Leader with a drone from the rear, SO WE MISS EVERY OTHER RIDER ON THE TRACK. 

Didnt see hardly any of Tomac's move on lap 1. 

Just show the race, from the stands, so we can see more than 2 guys in shot . It isnt Rocket Surgery. 

Guys is getting worse. 

Stop doing this. 4 different camera angles in about 10 seconds from gate drop through beginning of first lane and cannot tell who is out front on any of them. Infuriating. Nobody wants this or thinks it's going to win you an Emmy. Just stop. 

One angle up high from in front of the gate and stay there from the time the board goes sideways until everyone is through first turn. 

I hadn't opened this thread in over a year because I feel like most people are searching for something to complain about, but I'm 100% on board with this. Save the "artistic" angles/cuts for replays/compilations, just show us the one shot you have all night that includes everyone of interest at once.

They announced near the end of the broadcast that Bondo wasn't present last weekend to see the birth of his grandchild.

For a guy who has held this job for 20 years, I'm not sure if the broadcast was better or worse without him.  I suspect that you could let him go tomorrow without affecting the television product much if at all.

As someone who has to commentate on this type of stuff, 1000% agree.  If the people at home have no idea, neither do we. 

1 long shot from the first Turn , high up, And again into turn 2 .  Anything else helps nobody.

By all means run it as a replay, but live, long shot from the front every time. 

Here we go again, watching replays from qualifying earlier in the day full screen while a race is going on.  This production team is terrible.

"Qualifying Practice" ... get it right. 

Never heard of it either. 

Diffey was talking about Davies trying to win his third straight main event right before the main... 

Sorry but I've got complain about Will. I don't want to but I have to. Her rants are soooo long. One of them was when the camera was following Chase or something and it went for a whole lap. Insane.

Rinse and repeat this same issue for Detroit.  Davies was catching Hammaker lap after lap and they didn't even notice until he about made a pass. Bondo, race fans like to watch HOW a rider is catching someone, not just the pass.  Also, we do not need interviews in the middle of a race.  You have plenty of time around the racing. FOCUS on the racing and not story time for little Timmy

Not sure if they've done it before but there was a camera shot from in the stands POV showing the rhythm lane that was a little different and wasn't bad.

How does RDL miss every hotlap with it's massive operation and camera crew but Adam Enticknap/Track Talkers can get them everytime?

Almost feel sorry for AC and JB commentating "oh here goes X rider on a hotlap...oh no he backed off....oh! Tomac has just gone to the top!(off screen)" 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Liked her, but this year seems worse than the past.  Her interviews are 80% talking and 10-20% listening.

i havent watched RDL in while because they never show riding anymore. its usually them talking or doing some backstory crap.  would settle for an iphone parked on side of track just runnin live. at this point

I only watch the qualifying sessions but they're cringing enough. JB is good. AC is ok. He commentates with too much conviction. 

Natalie Quirke who does MotoGP for TNT Sports here in the UK, is excellent at short question-long answer . 

I liked it when RDL mostly just showed the guys on the track.  Now it is like Oprah for SX.

Way to go Bondo!  Split screen to something that happened last week on full screen and have a battle that is currently happening in the small screen. If you are not going to use it correctly, don’t use it at all. NOTHING other than current racing should be full screen, NOTHING!

So 2 guys battling side by side and they are cutting to the week before?  What a shit move

I'll give a positive review, I was at the race last night but just watched the 450 main replay this morning, kept one overhead shot of the start til the 2nd corner. Very much appreciated.