BBC Coverage

Allen is an outstanding pundit, but your right, he was never that good at commentating. On ITV he should have taken the role they had Mark Blundell for.

He also did a great job as pit lane reporter for ITV before they promoted him to commentator.

Jake explained what he was up to middle of last week on his twitter wanted to do CW Games - looking to Olympics.

And yes he is a football fan too - it's not difficult to find out who he supports !! Top man.

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Originally Posted by Bezza

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Watching F1 thesedays is a world apart from pre-2009 on ITV - the improvement, the overall experience, the attention to detail, the nostalgia, the relaxed attitude, the pre-race clips, the after-race analysis, the lack of adverts (!), the commentary, the presenter, the pundits...

EVERYTHING is better now, thank God the BBC have F1, and long may it continue. My girlfriend is now into F1, we wetn to Silverstone this year, but what she enjoys most is the off-track stuff - the interviews, the banter and features.

Well done Beeb :up:

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BBC seemed to have made more people interested in F1.

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Originally Posted by henners88

Oh dear god no, I would have to agree with that. Thanks to Allen I have to change the language on 'F1 Championship Edition' on my PS3 just so I don't have his voice lol. The Spanish option is rather good. :p :)

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Is it this man? http://www.f1aldia.com/3734/antonio-...f1-al-dia.html

He's a pain in the arse. Alonso alonso alonso ferrari ALONSO ALONSO alonso :p :

On topic, I can't complain with the coverage at all! Love the banter between them all and EJ is a real asset! I sometimes wonder about Legard, he seems to say a few odd things when under pressure, although nothing like JA. What's the general consensus? I remember people were abit unsure about him at the start of the season.

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Originally Posted by Drew

On topic, I can't complain with the coverage at all! Love the banter between them all and EJ is a real asset! I sometimes wonder about Legard, he seems to say a few odd things when under pressure, although nothing like JA. What's the general consensus? I remember people were abit unsure about him at the start of the season.

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I too am generally very glad it's back on the BBC, and the quality of coverage, for the most part, is very high. Jake Humphrey comes across very well, Coulthard and Jordan make for a suitably eloquent, opinionated pairing, Lee McKenzie is professional, and when Martin Brundle tells Nigel Roebuck he's been re-energised by being on the BBC it's hard to disagree. But Jonathan Legard is still the weak spot. His commentaries are still way too verbose. I would far rather have seen Ben Edwards being hired by the BBC to do his job, for then I think we would have seen the right mixture of excitement and description.

IMO the key to the BBC coverage is that they are a lot more balanced in who they talk about over the course of a weekend.

On ITV it was Hamilton, Hamilton, Button, Hamilton, Alonso, Hamilton, Massa, Button, Hamilton :D

On BBC, I think I've seen every driver get interviewed so far, and BBC do tend to stray further from the battle at the front than ITV did.

For example I very much doubt ITV would have devoted 15 mins to talking about Petrov and Hulkenberg like BBC did during their forum last week.

Clearly a race with not enough to fill a whole hour of F1 forum, the boys are talking about elephants now.

On a serious note, if anyone gets a chance to watch the Forum on the iplayer after the race, it was quite interesting the grilling they gave the Lotus team chief. (Sorry can't remember his name)

When asked about the Lotus engine's next year, he almost gave the answer by his uncomfortable reaction.

I loved Heikki's sunglasses