Thread: BBC Coverage

Red button takes too long - given up and gone to the PC

Press red now, there's an F1 Forum with plenty of highlights and punditry

Originally Posted by grantb4

I didn't like EJ. He just sounds like he wants to argue for the sake of it.

He should join this forum.

I loved my setup: big widescreen with the main feed, and a smaller 4:3 with the onboard, plus laptop for live timing!

There were a few rookie errors; EJ needs to calm down and Lee McKenzie needs watch some VTs of Louise Goodman; but overall it was a mighty fine effort for their first GP in 12 years, and wonderful to see how they took advantage of the technology available to them.

And NO AD BREAKS!

Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

I loved my setup: big widescreen with the main feed, and a smaller 4:3 with the onboard, plus laptop for live timing!

There were a few rookie errors; EJ needs to calm down and Lee McKenzie needs watch some VTs of Louise Goodman; but overall it was a mighty fine effort for their first GP in 12 years, and wonderful to see how they took advantage of the technology available to them.

And NO AD BREAKS!

I need another TV for the onboard

Fantastic job though. Forum on the red button and I'd imagine highlights throughout the day. Along with the practice coverage, classic GPs... if they doubled the licence fee next year it'd still be worth paying

Forum is great I'm certainly thinking of getting a freesat box and hooking my nice big 24" monitor up to that so we can have incar and the main feed all at the same time. One question. Will the F1 ever be streamed?

During quali i was all set to get up and make a brew in the ads before i remembered there would be no ads! EJ is a little bit too kiss arse for me, i reckon he and DC will have a right barney before much longer. DC has looked at him in a "WTF are you on about" manner a couple of times.

Other than that Brundles grid walk was great, commentary was good and thankfully no more James "stop the cock" Allen.

In the post-race discussion on the red button, EJ needs a sock in his mouth. He's spoiling what was in every other respect a brilliant bit of television.

Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

In the post-race discussion on the red button, EJ needs a sock in his mouth. He's spoiling what was in every other respect a brilliant bit of television.

Just a bit. But that said it did make for interesting TV imo. I thought Coulthard was right in backing Vettel's apology Vettel lost nothing through it and probably only gained respect.....

Originally Posted by Daniel

One question. Will the F1 ever be streamed?

Might have misunderstood what you're asking but it's streamed on the BBC F1 page for UK viewers.

I actually enjoyed the arguments between DC and EJ, I thought they were fun! Especially the debate about Vettel's apparent apology to Mario Thiessen... DC saying it was a smart bit of diplomacy, then EJ coming straight back with "no, it's a sign of weakness"

Damn it's gonna cost me a fortune getting a couple of extra TV's, but it'll be worth it!
Good coverage, really enjoyed the forum afterwards, still not changed my opinion of EJ but I was pleasently surprised with DC.

A fairly balanced approach to the British drivers, was expecting more fake excuses for Lewis and fawning over Jenson, but they kept it to an acceptable level.

I actually jumped up a couple of times for toilet/coffee breaks expecting it to go to commercials - could get used to this

The only thing that spoilt the coverage was that I didn't have to get up at 4am to watch it!

I thought the whole coverage was great. Jake Humphrey was very capable, Coulthard was very good too. Eddie Jordan? Well, I'm not sure really. He needs to know when to be quiet but he has some interesting views.

The forum was excellent. A whole hour of interviews and analysis is fantastic. I enjoyed the interview with Vijay Mallya, they didn't go on about Hamilton, they rightly praised his performance today, which was great, and I agree with DC about Vettel.

Young Seb number one is friends with Mario Thiessen, probably Robert Kubica as well, and there's no point losing friendships over something like that. Webber and Vettel get on ok despite their coming together in Fuji 07.

To say that it's a weakness is stupid on Jordan's part. There is no way in hell that Vettel will not fight Robert next time they come across each other on the track.

I think the new BBC F1 presentation line-up is good. I'm glad that they got Martin Brundle. Good to see that Ted Kravitz is still down in the pit lane too.

Jonathan Legard is good but I'm not sure that his style goes well with that of Martin Brundle.

Really glad that James Allen has disappeared though. That was my greatest wish for the BBC line-up.

The coverage was good, for some reason I kept expecting ad breaks lol.

I like the EJ DC debate as Eddie says it how it is where old square chin dances around it.
I just hope DC dosn't go on in every race about when he was a driver
Get over it now David your on the tele and not racing now

Well done to the BBC

Originally Posted by Triumph

Really glad that James Allen has disappeared though. That was my greatest wish for the BBC line-up.

He should be back in the pitlane I think.

Not a great commentator but he was better than Kravitz in the roving pitlane reporter role and his blogs are excellent.

Overall very good. Also found myself waiting for ad breaks to make a cup of tea!
If i was going to be picky for me Legard just talked a bit too much. Maybe coming from radio gives a tendency to leave no dead air and try to describe absolutely everything that's happening but at least he is knowledgeable which is the most important thing.

Originally Posted by Malllen

He should be back in the pitlane I think.

Not a great commentator but he was better than Kravitz in the roving pitlane reporter role and his blogs are excellent.

I've been really impressed with his blogs, he certainly knows his stuff but as a commentator he was really poor. Overall a great first attempt from the BBC

I was very impressed. A few more detailed comments:

Jake Humphrey did a very capable job, but I feel he is probably still over-compensating for maybe being seen in some quarters as a children's presenter. He seemed to be trying very hard to be serious and 'proper', and came over as a little stilted as a result. I'm sure he will become very good given a short time, though.

Lee McKenzie really didn't impress me at all, not that she had much chance to. Again, probably 'first time' nerves. Ted Kravitz is very good, though, I think.

Jonathan Legard seems like an excellent choice as main commentator, though he is maybe a little verbose. I'd probably put this down to his transfer straight from radio, as of course a radio commentator has to say more in order to 'paint the pictures' than a TV equivalent. Martin Brundle was really excellent as ever, and I reckon the pairing with Legard will gel pretty quickly.

I didn't watch the post-race discussion with EJ and DC; from what we saw pre-race, maybe Jordan is a bit 'excitable', shall we say, but this is surely why he's been employed. Coulthard is exactly as good as I thought he'd be — articulate and reasoned.

All in all, a great start by the BBC, and I'm impressed how quickly the coverage has hit the spot.