UK F1 coverage to return to the BBC !!!

No more ads! :D

But I really hope they get Martin Brundle and Ted Kravitz to commentate. I think he'd do a much better job than James Allen.

I'm really happy that there will be no more adverts but BBC will have to match ITV's good coverage. Hopefully they could show the practice sessions live too on BBC3 or BBC4. Using The Chain as the theme music is an absolute must. Hopefully the BBC will bring in Martin Brundle and either Ben Edwards or Charlie Cox to commentate.

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Originally Posted by VkmSpouge

I'm really happy that there will be no more adverts but BBC will have to match ITV's good coverage. Hopefully they could show the practice sessions live too on BBC3 or BBC4. Using The Chain as the theme music is an absolute must. Hopefully the BBC will bring in Martin Brundle and either Ben Edwards or Charlie Cox to commentate.

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Seconded, that title music is legendary.

As for Commentator, i'd love it to be Charlie Cox but i believe it'll be more than likely they'll bring over the 5live radio commentator David Croft, i dont think it'll be Ben Edwards because of his BTCC and A1GP work (did he use to do F1 for Eurosport a few years back?)

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Originally Posted by DazzlaF1

Seconded, that title music is legendary.

As for Commentator, i'd love it to be Charlie Cox but i believe it'll be more than likely they'll bring over the 5live radio commentator David Croft, i dont think it'll be Ben Edwards because of his BTCC and A1GP work (did he use to do F1 for Eurosport a few years back?)

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But if the money was right...

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Originally Posted by FIA

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?

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F1 coverage was a bit different then, with less of the football-style build-up and use of studio pundits. The BBC certainly started showing qualifying of most races live, if I remember correctly.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

F1 coverage was a bit different then, with less of the football-style build-up and use of studio pundits. The BBC certainly started showing qualifying of most races live, if I remember correctly.

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They started covering the full season live in 1978, dont know about when they started showing qualifying though

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Originally Posted by DazzlaF1

They started covering the full season live in 1978, dont know about when they started showing qualifying though

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I'm afraid that's not correct. The Grand Prix programme that started in 1978 was only edited highlights, though the British GP was shown live. It took many years for every race to be shown live in full, and even then, right up into the 1990s, not all the commentaries were done from the circuits.

While we're on this part of the subject, there is also the belief on the part of some that, apart from the British GP, no live races were shown on British TV at all before 1978. Again, that isn't right. The BBC used to cover certain high-profile GPs live, such as Germany, Monaco and Italy, and were doing so in the 1960s. ITV dabbled for a while as well, notably showing the 1976 Japanese GP which was also broadcast by BBC TV and radio. There's a thread in the History and Nostalgia forum about this somewhere.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

I'm afraid that's not correct. The Grand Prix programme that started in 1978 was only edited highlights, though the British GP was shown live. It took many years for every race to be shown live in full, and even then, right up into the 1990s, not all the commentaries were done from the circuits.

While we're on this part of the subject, there is also the belief on the part of some that, apart from the British GP, no live races were shown on British TV at all before 1978. Again, that isn't right. The BBC used to cover certain high-profile GPs live, such as Germany, Monaco and Italy, and were doing so in the 1960s. ITV dabbled for a while as well, notably showing the 1976 Japanese GP which was also broadcast by BBC TV and radio. There's a thread in the History and Nostalgia forum about this somewhere.

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Thanks for that, i might have got mixed up there with 1978 beign the first season where they began showing either live coverage or highlights from every race

Definately got to have The Chain as the theme music, Martin Brundle to do the commentary with Charlie Cox. Steve Rider will jump at the chance to go back because one of his other loves is golf and he,ll be able to do The Masters at Augusta again and The Open,because Gary Liniker was painful to watch.

Suzie Perry for presenter :p