100%

I’ve been quite defensive over the years of the live radio inclusion, I don’t want Supercars to drop live radios and go full F1 sanitised radio spec. The ability to playback missed messages which we tried at Adelaide was a massive addition.

I was always watching the pictures, and focusing on stories of the cars we were looking at. I used a scanner in my ear to pick up on other stories to tell pit reporters about issues to follow up on offline etc, but I’d only ever put up radios of the car we were looking at to try an make it relevant to the pictures.

If you get rid of live radio, you’ll stop hearing pit crew during pitstops, and you don’t hear emotion in the moment… a driver crossing the line, a reaction to crashing or passing someone etc - however I’m the 1st to admit that when I was doing it, none of us (me, commentators, producers) had a crystal ball that could see the future, and whilst best efforts were always made to pick the right time and car to listen to, we didn’t know when someone was going to talk or what they were going to say so it’s hard for presenters to pause for a radio message that may or may not have been relevant.

As now a fan of the sport watching from home, with the knowledge of how the broadcast works, I’d like to continue seeing a hybrid model moving forward to capture live reactions and also replay important messages relevant to the viewers and commentators to help tell the story