UK F1 coverage to return to the BBC !!!

Charlie Cox and Martin Brundle please.

not sure about Holy Samos, but i think Holly Willoughby could do a job in the pit lane ;)

The chain is a must - on the radio one news this morning they used the chain as part of the report on the F1 rights strory so i think someone in the bbc is already thinking that way.

i notice a lot of noise being made about internet streaming etc, but ITV are already doing that this year, so not entirely a new (or unreasonable) idea.

Murray should just be invited in every now and again to give his thoughts, i don't want him jetting round the world to make more mistakes, at his age the schedule would probably kill him.

I've seen a few suggestions for Suzi Perry, if I remember rightly, she doesn't particularly like F1. Hope she stays with MotoGP, amd that BBC don't drop it.
Anyway, keep Brundle, but the rest - forget it, even Rider- he's lost the plot recently.

Good news. :D Charlie Cox commentating would definitely make me want to watch it more. I could watch a paint-drying contest if he was doing the commentary. :laugh:

As for presenters, well as long as they get someone who knows what they're talking about and not somebody from the BBC's vast presenter network like Ben Fogle or Nick Knowles. :laugh:

Too right Iain. My favourite Charlie quote below :)

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"He needed that like a third armpit."
Charlie Cox commentating on the British Moto GP after Nicky Hayden slid off a wet track into a gravel trap.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/low/fun...me/7147584.stm

I enjoyed this one from Charlie Cox during the brilliant BTCC race at Donington in 1998 that Nigel Mansell led, on which Cox and John Watson delivered one of the finest live commentaries I've ever heard. Describing the rather battered front of John Cleland's Vauxhall Vectra, he said: 'There's been tons of contact. The front of that car looks as though it's been munching away on a steel gate.'

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

I enjoyed this one from Charlie Cox during the brilliant BTCC race at Donington in 1998 that Nigel Mansell led, on which Cox and John Watson delivered one of the finest live commentaries I've ever heard. Describing the rather battered front of John Cleland's Vauxhall Vectra, he said: 'There's been tons of contact. The front of that car looks as though it's been munching away on a steel gate.'

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Australians do have a talent for just saying things that Brits would keep in their head :D

This is what i've been looking forward to ever since the coverage went to ITV in '97. I'll admit that, yes, ITV have got much better at thier F1 coverage over years and it would be nice if certain elements of the coverage were retained (Martin Brundle is a must, also Mark Blundell for comedy reasons, please no James or Ted!!), but ultimately the most important factor is uninterrupted coverage, no ad breaks, which plainly don't work with F1. As for other things i'd like to see, high on the list is interactive coverage via the red button, choosing audio feeds between the TV commentators and Five Live (as they do on football matches) and possibly extra cameras etc if it can be supplied by FOM. Looking forward to 2009 already!!!

Steve Ryder took about 10 years getting away from the BBC so he could do F1 coverage just for it to go back to the BBC 2 years later!

Will they show qualifying on the BBC?
Would they also show Ausyralia and Jaopan live?
Or will it be dumped to BBC3?

I never saw it on BBC, so was it good, did show a decnet amount of talking and the race and did they show qualifying?

I think its great news no more ad breaks and races with hopefully full interactive coverage as well (if it means showing free practice in full via the red button then all the better) Also hopefully the likes of Martin Brundle, Mark Blundell and Louise Goodman will also make the switch (leaving the annoying James Allen behind thank god)

Maybe Charlie Cox could be transferred from the Moto GP commentary to do F1 for the BBC, that would be soo awesome