Last grand prix on ITV

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Originally Posted by Valve Bounce

As I see on the other thread, it will be Martin and DC. For direct experienced information and discussions, I guess we could not have asked for better.

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DC will be involved but probably not as a commentator.

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Originally Posted by 71minus2

not really. the adverts have ruined it and caused us to miss a lot of the action, James Allen is an embarrassment. BBC coverage will be a lot better.

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We are in the fortunate position of recieving uninterupted coverage of every race, quali and practice session :)

I wonder if they will make mention of this being their last race and give us a look back to 1997 since they started covering F1? It would be a good point to take a look back over the past 10 years.

Or will they just pretend it is business as usual?!

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Originally Posted by Mark

I wonder if they will make mention of this being their last race and give us a look back to 1997 since they started covering F1? It would be a good point to take a look back over the past 10 years.

Or will they just pretend it is business as usual?!

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Highlight clips of Brundle's gridwalks is a must.

Kimi in Brazil, Ozzie Osbourne in Canada spring to mind!

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Originally Posted by wedge

Highlight clips of Brundle's gridwalks is a must.

Kimi in Brazil, Ozzie Osbourne in Canada spring to mind!

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Or John Prescott - "I'm going for Damien".

here we get the ITV feed courtesy of TSN, so i guess it will now be a BBC feed i hope. Never cared much for James Allen, and the love affair with everything Hamilton/McLaren is a little much, but being one of the top drivers/teams i guess i can't fault them too much

Murray Walker and James Hunt, now they knew how to call a race. It helped that there were guys named Senna, Mansell and Prost though.

ITV have done a great job, it's not the F1 team's fault that they want an advert break every 15 minutes to advertise something Hamilton-related.

On a side note, the last race the BBC presented, we had a British world champion. The last race ITV shows....

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Originally Posted by Mark

I wonder if they will make mention of this being their last race and give us a look back to 1997 since they started covering F1? It would be a good point to take a look back over the past 10 years.

Or will they just pretend it is business as usual?!

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Perhaps they could show us all the exciting bits we missed over the years due to the adverts.

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Originally Posted by heelandtoe

here we get the ITV feed courtesy of TSN, so i guess it will now be a BBC feed i hope. Never cared much for James Allen, and the love affair with everything Hamilton/McLaren is a little much, but being one of the top drivers/teams i guess i can't fault them too much

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And this is nothing new at all. I was watching the BBC coverage of some world rallies in 1986 on YouTube the other night, and the attention given to the Metro 6R4s was a bit disproportionate — until they almost inevitably broke down, of course...

I'm a little nervous to be honest. It seems a bit like the BBC took up the coverage because ITV's in financial difficulty and can't afford it, I doubt it'll play as important a role in the BBC schedules as it does in ITV's. I still don't think that the BBC do a very good job with MotoGP.

Still, they must still be making some effort and it'd be great to watch it without adverts. I think that the Hamilton bias will probably stay, but who knows?