BBC Coverage

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Originally Posted by Sonic

He starts of on one of his rambling rants usually failing to make any points at all, sometimes contradicting the points he made just seconds before.

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I think they call that being Irish.

Irvine? No.

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Originally Posted by THE_LIBERATOR

I think they call that being Irish.

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No need for that son.

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Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

We had 5 Live on and it was as good as ever, but when they took a breather to give some football scores we switched back to Legard and immediately regretted it. He sounded asleep and bored. It's beyond a joke now, he needs a rocket up his backside or a P45.

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Only wet races does Legard find endurance for enthusiasm.

I know I've kept saying this before but listening to Croftie and Ant is like listening to Radio Le Mans (especially with the late David Leslie), witty banter and being informative without going over board with the former or bore your senses when its bad enough having to watch a dull race.

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Originally Posted by THE_LIBERATOR

I think they call that being Irish.

Irvine? No.

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:rotflmao:

I haven't seen the BBC coverage much, but the mistake they seem to be making is having too many people in shot at the same time. Eddie Jordan is an entertaining speaker, but he's clearly not able to deal with speaking to more than one person at a time on TV. Why do they have to have four ageing men on a sofa trying to outdo each other? We see that in any pub any day of the week.

Years ago, things worked because there two people, Walker and Hunt, with ONE mic.

They should get Jordan to interview team managers, DC to interview drivers and then a professional presenter to put it all together.

I like Eddie Jordan. That motherf'er is always playing devil's advocate and you can tell that it annoys the hell out of DC from time to time. I'm glad Eddie is there to throw a wrench in the whole process and making people laugh over his wild predictions.

Legard, on the other hand, needs to take a seat elsewhere. F1 is not the appropriate sport for his style of commentating. Maybe badminton or golf would be better suited to his style, but a fast paced sport is not for John. Give him the boot and stick Brundle with someone who is more witty and confident.

I think the lead commentator should be Toby Moody, the guy who is the commentator on eurosports MotoGP coverage. He and Brundle would be a good combination imo

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Originally Posted by tech3

I think the lead commentator should be Toby Moody, the guy who is the commentator on eurosports MotoGP coverage. He and Brundle would be a good combination imo

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I agree, and it was a missed opportunity, because when the BBC first got F1 he was potentially available since Eurosport had lost MotoGP. He's obviously an F1 fan because he often mentions it in the MotoGP coverage.

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Originally Posted by wedge

I know I've kept saying this before but listening to Croftie and Ant is like listening to Radio Le Mans (especially with the late David Leslie)

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Funny you should mention David Leslie - the report into the plane crash came out yesterday. We lost him for want of a rivet apparently :(

:!: Reminder :!:

Check your series links, people! Qualifying is on BBC2 this weekend (the race on BBC1 as normal), and my Sky HD box hadn't noticed. Apparently there's some sort of football tournament going on for the next few weeks... :p

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Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

:!: Reminder :!:

Check your series links, people! Qualifying is on BBC2 this weekend (the race on BBC1 as normal), and my Sky HD box hadn't noticed. Apparently there's some sort of football tournament going on for the next few weeks... :p

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Blimey, I hope the Football tournament doesn't clash with the world series of soccer that America are playing in on Saturday.