Love Crofty. Type of guy you could go down the pub with for an entire day and never get bored of the conversation.

I love to listen to Crofty. I hope he keeps on going for a long time to come.

Crofty sometimes struggles and gets a bit mixed up but for the big occasions he’s up there with the best. The last lap of Abu Dhabi is some of the greatest sports commentary I’ve ever heard

@_Ben4810

9 ай бұрын

''he's up there with the best..." 😆😆😆 You've never listened to John Hindhaugh, Ben Edwards, David Hobbs or the late & very great Brian Jones then....

@Lord_Lambert

9 ай бұрын

Could only be improved by telling the truth; that it was a farsical manipulation and a robbery.

@renealdonza165

9 ай бұрын

@@_Ben4810 Okay, boomer.

@liamjames2956

9 ай бұрын

@@_Ben4810Murray walker?

@_Ben4810

9 ай бұрын

@@liamjames2956 Murray was great of course, his excitement was both natural & captivating...David Croft's shouting & hysteria is all performance & mostly unneccessary.

This is an unreal interview. We don't give enough credit to commentators Edit: the fact he's a Skindred fan makes me soft in the loins

@ChaneyTM

7 ай бұрын

Well now I know this fact, I'm in sunshine, I'm in!!!

Credit to Crofty cause I feel he handled that moment in Abu Dhabi perfectly. Feelings aside for whoever you support, was professional and commentated well.

2021 was not only the final lap, but the relationship between max and lewis, this was electric. this is the rivalries we want and need in formula one.

@Lanse1984

9 ай бұрын

You can't have seasons like that every year. Drivers would retire way to early

@anonymous-hy1qy

9 ай бұрын

the races were excitng but it didnt get heated like ferrari battle in 2017

@EthanRom

9 ай бұрын

@@Lanse1984 AKA Nico Rosberg. Dude won, but lost his mind

Loved the part when Crofty spoke about James Vowels. By far the most insightful Team Principal they’ve had on the live comms during the races. Always interesting to listen to. He doesn’t try to play coy or keeps his cards close to his chest. He doesn’t sound smug like Horner, but instead he tries to provide information to engage the viewer. They should have him on every GP

Great story teller, our Crofty. What separates him from Alex Jacques ...(I mean no disrespect to Alex) is that he never "over commentates" what people can already see on television. Crofty adds value to the vision and is a relaxed, relatable guy. There's something about that cool, calm and transparent approach he takes to the job that's actually SO evocative and works so much better than those who try way too hard to be a commentator. "Keep it simple" ... as he says!

the fact that Crofty is a metalhead is awesome. Just like Misha, I can't believe the voice of F1 and I shared the same love for metal.

It's very true what Crofty says about writing things out and remembering them. As an illustrator, it's the same with drawing. I can remember what I was thinking at what line and when I was putting certain colours or what I was listening to whilst making a piece. The physical act of writing things out really is a fabulous tool. That being said I don't miss hand writing 8 sides of A4 paper for my film studies exam at A level.

Crofty being a "Metalhead" is absolutely my favorite thing! Up The Irons!

@Metal05

9 ай бұрын

He prefers Metallica I believe. Saw him at Download this year.

@rhayadervidra6903

9 ай бұрын

I love that Brundle loves classic rock too like Deep Purple and Wishbone Ash etc

"Ride the Lightning, still their best album". New found respect for Crofty.

Compliments to Matt and Crofty, for the questions and answers! Enyoy your summer break! Thank you for this episode!!

Met Crofty by chance after this year’s Montreal GP at a hotel bar after the race. Such a genuinely nice person.

This podcast is great, really enjoying it, hope it stays for next year. Please do a Q&A with the rest of the Sky team as well. The unscripted open conversation and behind the scenes I think is excellent. Interesting hearing what Crofty thinks about the F1 rules and the idea about a separate sprint championship.

I LOVE Crofty's comments on the sprint races. THE PERFECT WAY to run them.

@kmuralidharrao1567

9 ай бұрын

Exactly, its perfect

My favourite races are 1998 , 1999 and 2005 Japanese Grand Prixs along with the 2003 Malaysian GP and the final two races of 2007.

that Canada race in 2011 was for me the best race of all time

@DoctorMeatDic

9 ай бұрын

I totally agree and I've been watching F1 since 1992.

What a brilliant episode!

Would be fascinated to see the notes Crofty makes and some of the other prep he does. Perhaps a sky feature following him in the week of a GP?

Crofty is a metal head? LOVE IT! That makes 2 of us 👌

I started watching F1 with Murry and now I get just the same listening to Crofty on a race weekend, long may that ladt

Always love Crofty interviews. As much as I love F1 and the summer break seems like forever, I understand drivers and teams are full of people who have families and friends and lives outside of the sport that also deserve their time. The 24 race thing IS a lot, even as a fan. I'd hate to see this massive cash grab ruin the beauty of the sport for a few extra dollars.

I've had a number of dreams over the years where I'm about to be on TV or radio had have literally no idea what to say. Totally blank and unable to speak. It gives me even more respect for commentators. It's a very difficult skill.

ドライバーだけじゃなくクロフティにまで褒められるとは、ほんといいサーキットなんだな鈴鹿って arigato crofty🙏

17:40 that explains the Red Bull catering budget...😂

I'd like to know why he didn't say "it's lights out and away HE goes" when LH was alone at the restart. Really iconic image of the lone car on the grid.

I just wish the F1 game had my name!! Been playing for years and never a josh 😂

Crofty most favorite thing is to talk trash about Ted ON AIR

Turkey 2020 was his best and finest commentary.

Hope I see you at Skindred crofty!

Top bloke, nuff said !

32:00 I think we all were 43:08 Alonso in Bahrain when he overtook Hamilton at turn 10

26:03 I thought Matt was some new driver on the F1 23 grid. 😂

Well doesn't love crofty in a podcast. Thanks for this content in sky

Crofty is great!! Modern f1 without him wouldnt be the same!!

Best commentator F1 for ever

There was a Monaco GP one year where the commentary cut out for the second half of the race. Up until that point i had no idea how valuable the commentary was on F1 races. No clue what was going on without it, and nowhere near as exciting either

@puckloki873

9 ай бұрын

...it's Monaco. Excitement isnt a thing.

James Vowles is genius

Abu dhabi 2021 F1XED

i wish you have a third commentator. nico rosberg has great insights. f1 tv has 3 commentators, sometimes even 4. france has 3 commentators during the 90s. plus il y a de fous, plus on rit (the more we are, the more we laugh).

@unthenner5519

9 ай бұрын

Hahaha Croft could not handle it and the producers know it

2012 Chinese GP was a super race Crofty called.

Its comes as no surprise he wasn't a real fan before he got the job....

I follow races on f1 tv on which I suscribed this year/season... before I would look for some streams or what ever... and for the first race I didnt realise you could chose to have Crofty and Brundle and commenators, I was so disapointed... than I realised his commentating is at least 50% of expirience!

I’ve been waiting 35 years to meet Metallica. My heroes. MoP slightly pips RTL for me, but Fade to Black my favourite ever. Seen them 25 times now, playing drums and guitar and thousands of gigs since I was 11, now 47.

@PeterKKraus

9 ай бұрын

🤔

Loved Crofty's ideas about sprint races and blue flags. Having sprint as a separate entity of its own would be amazing, and could be a fantastic opportunity for so many of the amazingly talented young drivers who might unfortunately never get to be in an F1 car otherwise. Side note: Misha Mansoor is a proper legend. Basicslly invented the whole 'djent' subgenre of progressive metal. Him and Crofty talking is a proper worlds colliding moment.

Crofty 🫶🏼

It should be reworded. "Has there ever been a race where Crofty has got the drivers names right!".

I watch F1TV and listen to the International feed just to hear the Sky crew, but I didn't grow up with them. Maybe they wear on you after a bit, but I find them more informative and entertaining than the F1TV crew. When Crofty's in the zone, he's probably the best in the business. They do have their 'eccentricities' but I'm okay with them so far.

@Mandykiss4500

9 ай бұрын

F1TV is more Informative & Factual, Sky Sports F1 is more of a Entertainment Show for British Viewers even though it’s a World Wide English Language Broadcast…

@gealingeman8643

9 ай бұрын

F1TV are the international commentators actially. SkySports are the British commentators. So you're listening to the British broadcast, not the international one.

@joeofoysterbay7197

9 ай бұрын

@@gealingeman8643 Tell that to F1TV. I get to hear them by hitting International in the list of viewing options. I know they're Brits. That's partly why I like them.

@joshn1678

9 ай бұрын

@@gealingeman8643 they're all British, so you're wrong. Anyone who says they're biased towards British drivers just are mad that Brits are great drivers.

What about james allen. Croft didnt even mention him

@ciarankelman

9 ай бұрын

He wouldn't have ever listened to Allen because they were commentating at the same time

1:56 7:26 20:19 24:40 38:36

@hamza-chaudhry

9 ай бұрын

21:25 22:23

@hamza-chaudhry

9 ай бұрын

6:53

Have you ever Meet Murray Walker Crofty

@FTRRacingTv

9 ай бұрын

go to 32:30

Crofty is my favourite commentator. Thanks for your great job.

It will go down in history just like senna and Prost taking each other out,like Schumacher taking out Hill and now Hamilton and Max with Massi changing the rules they will all go down as the greatest cheats of all time.

Crofty is king

🎉

a commercial rights holder who is beholden to sell F1 as elite competitive sport then hosting a branded podcast commenting on the current state of competition and abu dhabi 21' is beyond parody... milquetoast, to put it mildly. and i like Crofty! but yall are ill equipped to cover these topics yet you continue to try and continue to fall flat.

Croft screams too much. Varsha and Hobbs are still my favorites. Brundle is good too.

i will always remember horner saying to crofty live on air "we need a miracle" in abu dhabi 2021, just few minuts before latifi's crashed. i'm still thinking we get an amazing race and thinkful to masi to figure a way to not finish under sefty car. toto wanted it to be finished under sefty car, but it was discussed in briefing that it should ont be, so toto wasn't prepared to this scenario, and i'm agree with some red bull cricism against lack of anticipation in mercedes strategy. red bull always have the best strategy and pit stop out there, and it make the difference even when they don't have a dominant car, because they're prepared to all situations. if you look at ferrari, it's a weakness they have for years. but if you look at mercedes, they have race culture, and they could be more challenging than mercedes to red bull, regarding theses pit stop preparation, in an eventual near future.

Most memorable? 😅 Oh boy, hopefully it’s a random one that catches all of us off guard and is *not* the glaringly obvious one.

Let’s ratio this guys

No don’t put the show first!!

It's the real same guy who was that Hamilton guy that was winning most of them races guy's number 44 guy who da best guy who beat the guy who beat the guy who beat the guy who couldn't beat Hamilton guy as it was a robbery guys for being that same guy and will do it again number 44 guy who was that Hamilton English England guy

Thank god he never commentated on Suzuka 2005. He would have ruined it.

Memorable yes - but for all the wrong reasons. What could have been the greatest end to a fantastic season ended in farce and the complete erosion of the integrity of the sport. F1 is still suffering from that lap - hardly a moment worth cherishing

@rk-wy8pu

9 ай бұрын

Ok go cry more

To comment him and Brundle should learn the safety car rules. This is a sport but they both seem to like and want spectacle first. It's disgusting to watch and listen to uneducated commentating such a beautiful sport.

@davidmildon3278

9 ай бұрын

Uneducated? Brundle was a top tier driver what are u on about. If you are referring to Abu Dhabi 21, its been proven that they changed the rules on the day and Brudle and Crofty were completely right to be confused

Wouldn’t say he goes in with a open mind he’s soo biased towards ham. He can’t do anything wrong and is aways talking about he is gonna win. Max/ leclerc can be leading and crofty just goes on about merc or ham. Shh. Enjoy the special max destroying the feild

@dffrnttd9474

9 ай бұрын

This just isn’t true. You just don’t like Hamilton to the point where you think he always needs to be criticised.

Crofty please learn to pronounce certain words like Abu Dhabi properly

I can't listen to Brundle and his condescending tone. The F1TV crew is much better then the sky group.

@unthenner5519

9 ай бұрын

You mean Croft but yes agree

@wandandlela8501

9 ай бұрын

For me they just try too hard can't bare them F1TV crew👎🏾

Love Martin as a commentator but sorry, Crofty not for me. Unfortunately here in the UK we have ZERO choice, we we are blocked by Sky contract from using F1TV feed. Fed up of paying sky a fortune for sports when all we want is F1. Its a complete con

@unthenner5519

9 ай бұрын

Simple vpn allows you to pay for f1tv. Instructions online

@unthenner5519

9 ай бұрын

F1 themselves encourage this

I cant listen to him screaching out his weak Murray Walker impersonation, litterally makes me mute the TV, or switch to another channel.

Let’s hope they’re making this video because his retirement/replacement is imminent. Can’t wait for Brundle to have a better co-commentating partner

The guy should be FIRED !!! i cannot count the amount of times this guy has got things wrong over a race weekend. be it driver names, tyres, times, names of corners, grid order, updates. he is ALWAYS being corrected, and its unacceptable. yes others make mistakes, and thats ok, but he does it ALL THE TIME. And just because he is a commentator, shouldnt make him exempt from getting the boot. the guy is stealing a living, and i actually watch f1 in another country now, JUST to avoid his AWFUL commentary. fella is joke

prefer he didn't commentate on any race. He's a truly dire commentator that always sits on the fence. Replace, replace, replace

@unthenner5519

9 ай бұрын

Agree he’s a contrarian no matter what

Nah I love Crofty but there was nothing iconic about Abu Dhabi at all. It’s arguably the biggest robbery in the history of sport. He even come out and said on a sky sports podcast that Lewis was robbed of an 8th world championship. Whether you’re a Lewis fan or not, it was disgraceful

@unthenner5519

9 ай бұрын

Yup friends i introduced to it back in 2005 switched off after that

don’t care we hate Croft

@tamasinb2643

9 ай бұрын

You care enough to comment

@RealJDGaming

9 ай бұрын

We? 😂😂😂 Who’s ‘we’???

@Mupoco-bd1dl

9 ай бұрын

And his twin Ted

@gerardkhachaturyan4814

9 ай бұрын

Go back to Siberia, then.

@jamesblake44

9 ай бұрын

I dont

He may be a nice guy but let's get it straight, he's the worst commentator f1 has had in a long time. Honestly before you slate me go back and listen to James Allen or Murray Walker they make him look like a novice. I don't understand also how the lead commentator get make so many mistakes be it with drivers or not spotting things, I'll be happy when he's gone.

@soundyg7441

9 ай бұрын

Murray made endless mistakes. He was super entertaining, but the rose tinted glasses are crazy

What an absolute joke and disgrace. What happened in AD21 was a farce, robbery and blatant cheating. To even mention it in the conversation of best ever moments basically summaries the respect (or lack of) this sport has for Lewis and what he went through during that time. Shame on you Crofty

@the_fleeing_dutchman

9 ай бұрын

Sour grapes, still? Don't blame what happened on the track to a commentator. It was one of the most thrilling ends to a race and both Crofty and Martin did a stellar job, commentating on what was happening at the moment. "And the Championship is going Dutch!!!" is quite a fantastic line.

@plivajucipauk7742

9 ай бұрын

Only farce, robbery and blatant cheating was Lewis Hamilton inventing new track layout and not getting penalty for cutting a corner.

@alext8404

9 ай бұрын

@@the_fleeing_dutchman name says it all.

@alext8404

9 ай бұрын

@@plivajucipauk7742 0 wheel knowledge

@gealingeman8643

9 ай бұрын

Merc made the mistake to not pit under VSC and not under SC. Their own fault. And all drivers simply raced 1 lap to the finish. Its that simple.

"Murray Walker stood in for me" 🥲❤️

Here's a question for Crofty: is "lights out and away we go" the worst sports catchphrase in human history? Answer: Yes.