BBC Coverage

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Originally Posted by Somebody

I was embarrassed listening when Brundle and Legard didn't know the difference between the Prime and Option tyres (the harder compound is always the "Prime", FTR - the McLaren team radio told Hamilton the Prime was a second-a-lap slower than the Option, twice, slowly and clearly, and asked him if he wanted the Option... and Brundle took it that the Prime was the super-soft, and went on to a long discussion based on the medium being faster. It wasn't until after Hamilton had actually made his stop, 15 minutes+ later, and come out with the green-striped tyres that they realised the mistake). I can understand them perhaps missing a detail on-track, or some of the more esoteric terminology, but that's pretty basic...

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Yes, that was pretty bad. I know.

I was so confused, but I couldn't believe Brundle was making such a basic elementary mistake. I mean, it's pretty standard and widely used.

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Originally Posted by christophulus

I thought Legard has improved a lot recently, I can't think of a point where I got particularly annoyed with him.

The thing that gets me is that him, Brundle, the pit guys always refer to the wrong car! I have a TV feed in front of me and I assume they do too, so why the mistake? They often seem to miss things that the viewers pick up on.

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To be fair they do have the live feed, but they also have 4 or 5 other screens, and have to talk throughout it as well.

I also often see them missing obvious points, and in particularly I find Martin seems to make a lot more mistakes than previously, but I think thats partly down to the fact he has now become more of a lead commentator whereas before he was the second commentator.

I have to say that, as every race passes, so the coverage improves.

They are clearly still finding their feet, but it is a different world to ITV, who, in turn, were in a leage of their own above the original BBC coverage.

I enjoy the very well informed commentary and insight from Ant on the practice sessions on line. He is a very talented guy, and personally, he ought to be in the box with Martin. I'm not dissing Leggard however.

Dc and Jake are very good, EJ is only average for me - but I don't like him full stop. I enjoyed Mike's knowledge and input last week - hint hint Beeb.....

The BBC certainly seem to have better access to team staff than ITV ever did, or is it just that the BBC anchor team are always in the thick of it.

Anyway, top marks for a good service that is clearly on the up. :up:

I have really enjoyed BBC's coverage. Jake has turned out to be a great presenter and very knowledgeable. I especially liked the grid walk in China. Is was very slick how all the presenters were stood on the grid and Brundle got DC to go with him. :up:

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

The BBC certainly seem to have better access to team staff than ITV ever did, or is it just that the BBC anchor team are always in the thick of it.

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Partly due to them still broadcasting more than 15 minutes after the end of the race perhaps, must be easier to get those interviews once everyone has finished their main jobs for the weekend. But I think you're right even earlier in the weekend. I couldn't believe they had managed to get Norbert Haug to do that interview with Martin showing the components of the Merc KERS system on camera.

BBC did another great job, F1 forum afterwards was brilliant, good to see them grabbing the likes of Ross Brawn to come and talk to them about the race and teams and stuff.

For those of you who don't have freeview or access to the red button (like me when i'm down in the south of UK), They always put the red button coverage on the BBC sport website,. There you can watch the grand prix with either 5 live commentary or tv commentary, and access to the f1 forum afterwards too.

I tried 5 live commentary for the first time this weekend, and i have to admit i was impressed. Ant and David did a great job, and holly was very informative from the pits. I download their F1 podcasts, which are thoroughly recommended too :up: As for the TV commentary, i do feel that Jon and Martin get on better now and their commentary is better together, but they do make some glaring ommissions of things going on, and they need to improve that and pick up on the improtant things. At one point they had no idea where Kimi had come out after his pit stop, you could hear both of them debating where he had come out.

They were also a few minutes late in realising that Button had effectively taken the lead of the race by passing the Toyotas in first round of pit stops.

Despite all these minor flaws I'm still really happy with the BBC's coverage, thinking back to how bad ITV was puts it all in perspective :)

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Originally Posted by AndyL

They were also a few minutes late in realising that Button had effectively taken the lead of the race by passing the Toyotas in first round of pit stops.

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And completely failed to mention that Glock had taken the lead at the start!

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

I enjoy the very well informed commentary and insight from Ant on the practice sessions on line. He is a very talented guy, and personally, he ought to be in the box with Martin.

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But Brundle & Davidson both do the same role. You need an expert summariser and a commentator.