BBC Coverage

I only watched the rerun, which was more-or-less just the race (there was a short summary of qualifying beforehand, then straight to the five-minute signal, and then a couple of talking heads and Jake Humphrey saying that Trulli had been de facto DQed). Mostly okay, but there seemed a few moments where Legard & Brundle missed something significant that was going on - Rosberg's pit stop being a notable one, where the fuel hose was off and they were still talking about how long they were spending fuelling the car!)

[And, while I know it wasn't in the BBC's gift, some of what the director missed was fairly shocking...]

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Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

There's even a choice of no commentary, just the track sound. I'd have given my right arm for that last year!

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I've just stuck the replay on with no commentary to try it out (although you still get the "Team Radio", which is burned into the soundtrack). It's oddly soporific, actually.

Croftie and Ant was so much better. It's like listening to Radio Le Mans - banter mixed in with serious stuff. Maurice Hamilton needs to in there as well on race day. I'll be using them most of the season.

When I did catch moments on BBC1 Lee McKenzie came across as lost, jet-lagged and didn't know what planet she was in. Shame, she was excellent on Speed Sunday a few years ago.

Was it just me or do DC and Eddie Jordan really not seem to like each other..? :s

I only saw the highlights programme! But I have to say it was a great race to see and great not having to cringe at anything JA had to say about.. anything. I think Legard was good but I'm sure he'll definitely get better as the season goes on, shame i'm not in the country for most of the season :rotflmao:

Jonathan Legard's comment at the end about Brawn's job losses interested me — the team has just released further details of this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/7970826.stm

Thought coverage was good but having one or more of them covered in one another's shadows wasn't great, they did go inside but came out again :s

Also seems like Richard B doesn't really have any experiance of F1 and seemed surprised at the noise :s

I thought the Beeb coverage was great, however, I found EJ a little annoying. He didn't wait for his cues, and even carried on talking about subjects after the rest of the team had moved on to something else!

My interest in the multi-screens (via Sky) lasted about 10 mins. The fact that being in interactive mode means that I can't pause or wind back is actually a bit of a disadvantage, so I don't think I'll bother with it for the rest of the year.

But its a great start, and I'm sure the BBC will have it perfect within the next few GPs.

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Originally Posted by Giuseppe F1

Did anyone else watch the post-race BBC Highlights/Forum show when Mallya joing the panel?

....was it just me who thought he looked like some kind of Ghetto pimp chav in his tracksuit, shiny gold Force India cap and ear-ring? :)

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the team should be called by vjm looks in the bbc forum show: force pimp f1 team,

overall I felt the bbc done a brilliant job overall imo, the people who didn't really felt eddie done a bad job, imo he done a good job, he really spoke his mind quite well on an opinions such as on drivers and kers so forth,

only thing it was missing chain music for the end credits imo, overall an A plus.

I really only care about the main commentary, and I thought the Brundle and Leggard combination was awesome.

Yes, Leggard was verbose, but intelligible all the while. My patner who was watching the race with me commented at the start of the race that it takes great skill to talk that fast while still being understood. And, he knows the sport, he is knowledgable, he is good.

Brundle, as good as always.

The others, I don't care really!

I thought Legard was horrific...he's still in radio mode - I don't need to know everything I can see it for myself. I hope he gets better but on that showing I almost missed that chump from last year.