Yeah, but there's a good reason for that...

Well, he did once refer to McLaren as "our car" during the race...

he did say that, but corrected himself to mean 'our on board camera car'

Think about why they won the race please...

Bit like in Monaco, Red Bull 'won', but they were not the main story.

I find employees of BBC commenting on F1 totally outrages.

Talking too much, McLaren bias, still running in old inch-system while rest of us run in metric, and finally their propensity to pass judgement over racing incidents on public waves without having any facts in hand. Just waste of my money I pay to TV provider whilst being stuck with those people. Go away, all of you, please.

I can't even start with this. It's just hysterical

they would be mclaren bias, their british. just like it's highly likely that spanish tv are very biased towards alonso.

So when asked for their opinions they're not allowed to give them?

Bit boring if they sat in silence.

Still good comedy post, well done.

The radio would be intriguing without them talking. It would sound like Metal Machine Music for two hours.

In the 1970s, the races were often broadcast without commentary.
Example

Anthony Davidson brings excellent insight and knowledge but he always sounds bitter and Jealous because he couldn't make it in F1.

Yes, I remember him clearly saying today "I wish it was me who was in Webber's car "

Davidson is the least experienced F1 driver the BBC have ever had and it shows. Listening to him on practice day is awful. And yes he is very bitter..

Did anyone notice at the start of the Forum, when DC was talking to Gary Paffet, EJ say "Oh, David's just frightened of the three lady drivers in DTM blowing him off!"?

I laughed so hard. DC replied with "but there are only two ladies in DTM." Eddie came back with "Yes, and you're the third."

It was brill. And Eric Boullier said sh*t.

Well, that's the best England has to offer? It would be sad really, if that's the fact. I think better commentary could be available, if you look around.

I thought that there are more british teams in F1, not just McLaren. In second instance, BBC sells the program to more than just to domestic audiences. Accepting money, say from Canada, wouldn't that bind them into some more reasonable behaviour, or we are all suppose to like these two at Mclaren, especially when not even all brits like both equally?

Yeah, funnily enough, I don't think there is a Canadian team in F1.

It's the British Broadcasting Corporation. There's always going to be some level of focus on the drivers from the same country as the broadcaster. In Spain, it's about Alonso. In Germany, it's about Vettel and Schumacher. In Italy, it's about Ferrari. In Brazil, it's about Massa. In Japan, it's about Kobayashi.

And besides, if you are referring to the fact that the commentators are not talking about other British teams, it is probably because they weren't on TV much today. What are they supposed to do? Suddenly talk about Virgin when Hamilton and Button are fighting for the victory?

I don't know about anybody else but kind of getting sick of EJ continually going on about the Rosberg conspiracy i.e he has been given an inferior equipment etc. How many times are going to ask that question and do you really expect the team to answer any differently? Or is he just hoping they will slip up and admit to it due to his amazing interviewing skills!

BTW Loved Schumi's post race interview! Well done Lee asking what I was thinking about the rain convo!

I love eddie jordan, I think it'd be far too "clinical" without him and he seems to add some slight comic relief (ususlay unintentional).

Martin is a stand up guy, Eddie is a politician and make me feel ill when he defended Vet, and DC is half half lol..

Well, that's the first thing that came up as I was speechless. And, not that it actually matters, technically I am in England, but I'm not exactly one who represents it.
Going back to the topic, I actually think that for a British broadcaster, the BBC doesn't have a bias to any teams and they do a good job of being relatively neutral. Arguably, it might be actually said that if they did have a bias towards a team, it would be Red Bull. Or it could be that its just because they have greater access to the team, but maybe I'm mistaken at that.

At the time, I thought that he was saying that they need to "clear the sheet" in the sense of starting with a clean sheet.

I was a bit baffled at first when Humphrey asked him to mind his language

LMAO at Eddie shouting at Martin Whitmarsh.

For anyone who didn't see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...one/8713571.stm

Fantastic post-race show once again, we truly are blessed to have some top quality coverage (Legard aside if you want to be pedantic ;) ). Its always interesting and amusing to have the forum cover the same topics people generally get excited about on here following the races.

John Cage does Formula One - "62 Laps in Silence".

I really do have to commend the BBC on such amazing post race forums

They found out later that was what he said, jake got it wrong! No wonder the renault guy looked so confused!

There were 2 or 3 mentions of people being blown off and jake is always letting people 'shoot off' when they've finished interviews!

I'm trying to work out whether they're accidental or part of a game but DC's face when eddie said it indicates it's just chance and eddie doesn't realise!

JFC, Eddie Jordan is THE biggest cock in the paddock.
Can't believe how annoying he is.

M. Walker, Dr. A. Palmer, and others, ...

Credit where it's due, good job by Lee McKenzie today, she asked the right and tough questions, no fooling around .

Legard proved to be unbearable again, big surprise. Faux Rouge , nice Google job.

I just caught up with the forum on iPlayer - and nearly crapped myself laughing at "blowing him off" exchange!

I've always felt that the Lee hate was a bit unfair as she nearly always gets the crap features, nice to see she can handle meatier situations as well. Her and Ted's investigations were brilliant, and moreover what they found out has emerged to be almost all correct. Great forum

I think DC has also really started to grow into the TV role this year, much less stiff than he was before. And it was interesting how opinionated he was over THAT incident, even urging Ted on in his investigations about the engine maps because he "might be onto something"...I really don't think he would have done that 12 months ago, nice to see that he doesn't always have to be the RBR man (I wonder how they felt about that though).

I heard that rumour.

I'm not sure either..

DC's face is a picture, every single time that EJ says it.. but yesterday, 2 minutes later, after EJ said it.. DC used the phrase too... lol

I loved the way that when lee was doing her bit on the forum DC and Eddie suddenly turned into a pair of sexist old bastards! lol

anyone know why the 5-live commentary for the race isn't up on iplayer yet?

Cause it wasn't on Radio 5 Live or 5 Live Sports Xtra. I've queried with them and asked them to put it on.

Oh, i see thanks, so what was it on? Guessing it wasn't on any radio station and just on the red button then? Which would suck massively, was looking forward to watching the race again with Croft and Ant for a slightly different take on the race as Legard was terrible as usual.

Jeag, if you want to help ask for it, you could post here. It does take a bit of time to register if you haven't already, though.

I think Anthony Davidson was the only one with any brains after watching the forum, Lewis Hamilton as good as spelt it out why he was subdued after the race he couldn't have dropped any bigger hints and none of them had a clue apart from Anthony. DC, Jake and Eddie just couldn't work it out. Having just been told to conserve fuel which is a command to slow down amongst other things Lewis suddenly see Jenson sail past him which must've been very disappointing. It must've seemed to him like Jenson's engineer trying to take advantage of the instruction given to Lewis by his engineer. Jake stupidly over-assumed a french accent when poor guy Boullier was only saying clear the sheet as in clean sheet but got accused of swearing on live TV.
They're a great team the BBC in terms of presenting but they're not very bright, thankfully there was no more comments about the new points system being so much different when its not at all, that really was starting to gripe my sheet !

Ah another race with Legard That man is such an annoying tool, the amount of up the hill's he said throughout the race made me want to rip someone's guts out LITERALLY . Also did anyone else spot the mistake he made in Quali & the race saying McLaren had never won @ Istanbul Park when they clearly won the inaugural event!
It seems no matter how much us fanatical viewers complain the BBC won't give 2 sh*ts.

I thought Brundle was good today made it worthwhile during an exciting race but going from other people's comments it seems the 5Live commentary was off the hook. Before I forget that other sh*tebag EJ why doesn't someone just shove a firecracker up his arse and send him away. He is incredibly annoying, he thinks he is the Mr Know-it-all. DC if your reading this mate, one day take those glasses of his beady eyes and shove them where the sun don't shine!

The BBC really need to sort out there 5live replays on iPlayer as more often than not, the program is cut off before the end. Several of the races this season have finished on iPlayer before race distance is up yet there can be 20+ mins of non F1 stuff at the beginning.
For example, The Turkish qualifying on iPlayer right now is a one hour program but the actual F1 doesn't start until over 24 mins into it and finishes while Q3 is not completed. Kind of a complete waste of time not hearing the outcome.

Yeah I had that last year when I missed several GPs and had to have the overlay the BBC1 coverage with 5 live, it cut short most of the time, particularly bad at Singapore which was is always a very long race, around 20 laps got cut off.

It's a shame because it would be an easy fix. If there's a limit, I'm sure people would rather cut the pre-race off than the actual race..

Anyway, I'm hoping the guys at the BBC will be kind enough to put yesterday's race on iPlayer. Would be pretty cheesed off if they don't

Ye that wasn't great with the wet races we've had that have been very long races. The commentary on iPlayer would end about 10-15 laps before the GP actually ended, which sucks because like you say the first bloody 30 mins is complete rubbish that doesn't even need to be on the iPlayer.

Yep totally agree, apart from Brundle (who sadly wan't there) and Davidson they are not very bright.
Now the question is, are they really not picking up on hints or are they doing it deliberately.

Jordan is a total co**/joke, he seems to annoy everybody except for Jake who even thinks he is cool.
DC, I thought he would bring some more interesting inside, instead he is like your next best armchair expert. Disappointing.

Thanks for that Don.

On the whole, great commentary on a great race apart from the ever annoying Eddie Jordan! Legend made is normal gaffs and I noticed Martin is even running out of patience. Their discussion about the rain 'coming, not coming' was entertaining :-)