UK F1 coverage to return to the BBC !!!

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

The geeky insights that JA picks up on are usually things that he stole from Martin Brundle in the last race.

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No, it's usually over the course of the weekend. JA has a good eye for detail. I enjoy reading his stuff, such as this every Friday:

http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=42072

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Originally Posted by wedge

No, it's usually over the course of the weekend. JA has a good eye for detail. I enjoy reading his stuff, such as this every Friday:

http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=42072

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There isn't much in that link that any other F1 fan in Malaysia couldn't tell you. He just seems like JA states the obvious all the time.

James Allen's prediction - 'Ferrari will bounce back here because they have to, but Hamilton will again be very hard to beat.'

You don't say! :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

There isn't much in that link that any other F1 fan in Malaysia couldn't tell you. He just seems like JA states the obvious all the time.

James Allen's prediction - 'Ferrari will bounce back here because they have to, but Hamilton will again be very hard to beat.'

You don't say! :rolleyes:

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Do most fans know what is going on during the practice sessions or do they go on the quickest lap times set? Do most fans have access to team members to acquire additional information from, to analyse and interpret from?

To say he states the obvious, well isn't it obvious not much has changed in 12 months and we the same pattern emerging between Ferrari and McLaren?

To the haters who say James Allen has no clue and states the obvious is harsh attacking a man who worked for Autosport, ESPN, ITV, written biographies on Mansell and Schumacher. Apart from charismatic voice, what else is missing in his CV. Driving the damn thing? Oh wait, we've got Brundle for that one.

The BBC only started covering every qualifying session live in its last two years when they moved from two sessions to one hour long session. Even then they did not always show the whole thing live . quite often the would only join about 20 minutes in. It was particularly infuriating as they were not covering other live sport... just reading out results from others.

Used to be in the early 90s there was no race build up. you joined during the formation lap. There were certainly no on camera presenters and no grid walk and there was no detailed analysis after the race.

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Originally Posted by Mark

There were certainly no on camera presenters

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That started at overseas GPs in 1994, at Imola. This proved to be a blessing as it meant the BBC was able to cut back to Steve Rider in the pits after Senna's accident, otherwise everyone would have had to have watched the rather intrusive scenes of the crash scene that the main feed was showing.

I'm really surprised to see praise for Charlie Cox, he (& Steve Parrish) get so much flak for their Moto GP commentary.

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Originally Posted by Mark

The BBC only started covering every qualifying session live in its last two years when they moved from two sessions to one hour long session. Even then they did not always show the whole thing live . quite often the would only join about 20 minutes in. It was particularly infuriating as they were not covering other live sport... just reading out results from others.

Used to be in the early 90s there was no race build up. you joined during the formation lap. There were certainly no on camera presenters and no grid walk and there was no detailed analysis after the race.

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I don't like the sound of that.

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Originally Posted by Somebody

One of these days, people will realise that (a) BBC3 and 4 don't broadcast during the day and (b) the broadcast space is turned over to two kids channels during the day, so they can't just "open them up".

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Really? I haven't actually watched the CBBC or Cbeebies channels, so I have a good excuse for my ignorance :p : But maybe the BBC will show it on CBBC, it could be part of the BBC's plan to bring in new viewers, catch them while they're young :D

As much as I love Top Gear I'm hoping any rumours of Clarkson, Hammond and May doing anything with the F1 show are just an early April Fools joke.

Glad to hear its going back to the Beeb interms of getting rid of irritating ad breaks... I hope they hang on to Martin though, and Louise too in terms of the team. I won't be sad to see James Alan go though...

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

The idea of Richard Hammond presenting is too ghastly for words. What sports coverage needs is a sports presenter. The spectacle of Craig Doyle attempting to present motorbikes and the Winter Olympics was not one the BBC should be proud of, nor seek to emulate. And then there was Vicki Butler-Henderson doing the BTCC...

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It would be awful. What ITV have is decent, so I hope the BBC don't mess it up.