BBC Coverage

Pretty good figures for the BBC coverage considering it overlapped the Wimbledon final:

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Between 1pm and 3.30pm an average of 3.2 million, a 19.1% share, caught Marc [sic] Webber beating Fernando Alonso at a rain-soaked Silverstone. A further 418,000 caught the Formula One on the BBC HD channel.

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The tennis got an average of 11.4 million and a peak of 16.9 million at it's conclusion.


Source: Andy Murray Wimbledon final pulls in almost 17m viewers | Media | guardian.co.uk

The tennis will have helped. I'm sure a lot of people will have planned an afternoon in to catch the final and so tuned into the Grand Prix in the meantime.

There was wonderful documentary Gordon Murray documentary on BBC4 last night.

BBC iPlayer - How to Go Faster and Influence People: The Gordon Murray F1 Story

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Originally Posted by rjbetty

Oh thank you! Yeah I noticed too. Martin was very chirpy. I would have expected Martin to be the grumpy one and DC to be warm and friendly. Yeah it would have been great to see them stop and chat a bit - the the BBC and Sky bosses would go mental I expect.

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Depends - after one of the highlights races, the BBC crew were doing the Forum* and caught Martin leaving the circuit. After a visible "oh #### I'm stuck" moment, he relaxed for a couple of minutes and chatted on-camera (mentioning he was having dinner with DC afterward), until they let him go [ending, after he was gone, with a "I hear he's still working in broadcasting" from... I think it was DC, which was as close as they got to a direct Sky mention].

*Which I hadn't even known they WERE doing - I found it by chance on the red button on the Monday night!

Any more news as to whether the BBC will be dropping it?

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Originally Posted by tommy2k8

Any more news as to whether the BBC will be dropping it?

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No and there likely won't be anything until over the winter.

Consdering that there will be 22 races next season, and they have got the FA Cup back from 2014 / 15 season, I think they will

Do you think the extra 3 races will make a difference to the BBC?
Even though the BBC are excellent in sport, I have found even their live coverage this season a bit disappointing

They're (unsurprisingly) back down to 19 races now.
http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2013/11/d ... -calendar/

19 is still too many, lose Bahrain, Singapore and USA and we are back to a reasonable level.