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Thought ITV were quite good actually.

Just a thought though on James Allen who has been recieving some bad press. I think he is good when you put his job as a broadcaster who has to fill a hell of a lot more time up than Brundle. In that context I think he has improved immensly and probably is better than Murray could be today.

James Allen is equal in annoyance with induring the advertising breaks all the time.  How can you say the coverge has been quite good.  Haven't you seen ininterrupted races, commentaing on todays races cannot easy,  trying to make them exciting....but James Allan is pants,   what about  JC?

who is jc?

 

JC would be Jeremy Clarkson, thats because supposably Richard Hammond will be doing the commentary, while James May and Jeremy Clarkson will be doing pit lane interviews. Now!! i LOVE Top Gear and it will be entertaining with them three in it. which is actually why the BBC might be giving them the job, because they say that their humour works on top gear(which it does) so it will work on F1. Also when Lewis Hamilton did his lap time in the reasonably priced car, that got more viewers than the Brazilian GP. Like i said i LOVE Top Gear BUT, May and Hammond don't even like F1 never mind watch it and Clarkson does watch it but doesn't really know anything about how the cars work and all the stuff that Martin Brundle knows. So the BBC need to try and get Brundle to join them otherwise it will be rubbish..... entertaining... but rubbish. For get everyone else they were ok but Martin Brundle was MILES better than them.

I agree that Brundle was great at his job, but that job was being incisive every five minutes. You still need someone to talk the rest of the time and James Allen wasn't bad.

 p.s. Clarkson on F1, that would be rubbish! as you say he is amusing on TG but you still have to ignore most of what he says on a factual basis and that would not work on F1 as he would try to be 'biggeer than the sport'.

Are we getting Fleetwood Mac back as part of the deal?

I was reading somewhere today (someone had actually taken a stop-watch to it) that in 2007 commercials cost us something like 14 minutes coverage per Grand Prix; that's about four hours over the course of a season.  When I think of some of the sh*te I have to watch at Mrs Schwenck instance, that loss suddenly comes into sharp focus!

Still, I've accepted it as it was free-to-view.  I've even grown to tune-out James Allen's cliche-ridden, cringe-laden commentary.  But I still have a problem with ITV's constant courting to the advertiser's dollar and the lowest common denominator, i.e. the 'Lewis Hamilton Effect'.  I love Formula 1, I don't watch it because an English bloke is bashing some Johnny Foreigner.  I'd watch if all the drivers were Czechs, Eskimos or Martians; perhaps I'm in the minority there.  I'm hoping the BBC might treat us to an even presentation of the sport as a competition between multi-national drivers and constructors, with less celebrity, fewer pantomime villains and no blinkered nationalism.  Sadly, I think I'm to be disappointed: on the day the news broke, an article on the BBC website had a picture of Hamilton merged with one of a Ferrari underwritten with a strap line of “Hamilton’s battle with the Ferraris next year will be on the BBC”...

Schwenck:

BBC might treat us to an even presentation of the sport as a competition between multi-national drivers and constructors, with less celebrity, fewer pantomime villains and no blinkered nationalism.

Here, here, the BBC has always paraded itself as a non biased organisation but the truth of the matter is that money rules the world in every aspect of our lives, fair play and equality dont, so who ever purchased the rights to show F1 on the BBC would have to justify thier decision to the BBC bosses who in turn have to justify them to their bosses, so as much as I would love to see an ad free,James Allen free and un biased coverage of F1, I fear all that we'll get is more of the 'English (nee British) against the jolly foreigner and James Allen.

I'll keep an open mind come the start of the 2009 season,maybe, just maybe I'll be wrong.

p.s. bring back the 1 hour free for all qulifying from yesteryear

 

 

Does anyone know the name to that fleetwood mac song??

Enzo Ferrari:

Does anyone know the name to that fleetwood mac song??

 

 

'The Chain'.  Just a very small passage from the middle of a very long song IIRC.

The BBC unbiased, get a life, it's been run by lefties and do gooders for years. If you listen to the world service as I do it's laughable just how anti Brit the BBC is. We can kiss good by to all brits in the competition, hopefully we may get the occaisional mention, so hope your all happy now.

By the way I'm British & proud.