Really? How do you know this if you don't mind me asking.? Would seem weird for a place (Haymarket) to have a specialist motorsport publication (Autosport) which runs a specialist motorsport website to then set up a totally separate motorsports unit to look after ITV....

...or I could be demonstration my complete lack of knowledge in this particular sector.

A shame that Legard is back, the guy just plain doens't get excited enough and has no rapport with Martin Brundle at all.

I just watched the closing laps of the 08 Brazilian Grand Prix again, can you imagine if it was Legard commentating then?

Allen might have lived up Hamilton's arse but he was a far better commentator able to capture the moment and had a decent rapport with Brundle.

If there's more than one person working on writing content for the ITV-F1 website I'll be very shocked. It's merely an echo of whatever else is out there so wouldn't be too difficult to pen for.

They used to run Mark Hughes pieces.

But he's freelance isn't he?

I sent a PM and asked

Touche.

Mystery solverd.

Slightly O/T, but I'm guessing some of you guys also watch BBC's MotoGP Coverage:

http://twitter.com/suziperry


http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/new...zi-perry-quits/

No suzi?

Suzi just got married, late 30s, hmmm wonder why she wouldn't want to traipse across the planet over the next 9 months?

Hmmm I really can't figure it out

Well the MCN article says:

"Speaking exclusively to MCN just a day after she told the BBC she would not renew her contract to cover the 2010 MotoGP season, Suzi said: “It feels like a part of something has died. That might sounds a little dramatic but that’s how I feel."

A part of her life has died, she's done bikes for like, forever now.

I'd quite like to _see_ Charlie Webster replace her. Although when I'm watching bikes, it will be on Eurosport not BBC (can't stand that Australian guy :/).

ITV-F1 isn't a Haymarket title, but it is produced by Haymarket Network, the customer publishing division. They also do a lot of stuff for Manchester United, Wembley Stadium, Champions League, and the FA; despite having our own consumer football magazine 442. Naturally if you're a football or racing person it's easier to move amongst those titles than it is to go to Practical Caravan or Gramophone, but they are very seperate. Haymarket Network is probably the most stand-alone part of Haymarket in that regard, it's almost a company within a company

Thanks man, appreciated.

That coverage is awful and unless you have only terrestrial, there are no excuses not to watch the epic Toby and Julian on Eurosport.

Unless you dislike Toby

Can't imagine anyone hating Toby or Julian.

And, yeah, the BBC coverage is ****ing awful. They'd completely skip the podium ceremonies and just skip straight to James Toseland regardless of where he finished. Could have been 11th place or whatever. And, man, those two commentators... sound like they smoke 60 packs an HOUR.

If anyone accuses BBC F1's coverage of being heavily Brit-biased then you merely have to show them their MotoGP coverage.

hey..

i much prefer the BBC Motogp coverage to Eurosport...


personally, i think Steve Parish and Charlie Cox are a great commentary team.

And yet, the BBC's MotoGP coverage constantly receives the highest proportion of satisfied viewers than almost any sporting coverage on the goggle box.

This is my "I'm shocked" face.

What he said.

Maybe because they can't get Eurosport?

exactly...

For those that hate the BBC F1 website (or the BBC sites as a whole) : http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/201...language_f.html

BRILLIANT

BBC is one of my favourite websites.

From Jake's Twitter:



I hope the McLaren "cracking ideas" bit doesn't mean that pre-race may be filled with one team... slight concern.

Does anyone know when (if?) the BBC will be doing some kind of 2010 F1 season preview?

A quick google and a trawl of their F1 website uncovered nothing. Can't be too far away now.

A fair way off topic but has anyone watched the race reviews at http://www.formula1.com/video/ ?

They are pretty decent but the last half of the Sepang video that plays to "It's raining men" is the gayest F1 montage I've ever seen.

I doubt it. The Beeb were pretty good last year from becoming a complete JB fest.

BBC should take it upon themselves to choose the best possible commentators for F1.. Legard isn't that and it's disapointing to see he'll be commentating this year again.

Ben Edwards and Brundle, how would that work out? Edwards is a brilliant commentator, has the passion, the enthusiasm and knowledge. Probably the best available at the moment.

*bangs head on desk*

How many more people are going to talk about Ben Edwards after it's been pointed out he refused to accept the BBC's conditions so wasn't considered?

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I think he can be excused. Not everyone has the patience to read an entire thread from last year.

The BBC could perfectly well alter their conditions if they wanted.

I wont be at all surprised and indeed, expect there to be a great deal of coverage from the McLaren pit next year - for obvious reasons. I think a few people here should maybe prepare themselves for that now...

Yes... Thank you very much for that.. I wasn't reading into much F1 at the time...

I see.. But yeah, Edwards is fantastic, that's a shame he couldn't accept the terms.



Don't bang your head too hard on that desk! That could be pretty painful.

Yep, were people upset that they spent so much time around the Red Bull garage last year?

Heads-up for everyone, 5Live will need a replacement commentator for Canada. Ant has been drafted into the #1 Peugeot for Le Mans in the place of David Brabham (who'll be doing the race in the Highcroft Racing ARX-01c).

I wonder if the McLaren dads will be a permanent presence in the pre and post race coverage. John Button was all over the shows last year but I don't think I heard Anthony Hamilton's voice all year, a huge change from the last year of ITV. Perhaps he didn't enjoy 2009 very much or had made a conscious decision to step back, but maybe he will be wanting to keep up with Mr Button during 2010. Just as long as he doesn't start competing over who can wear their shirt the most open...

And Bahrain and Spain: http://twitter.com/5LiveF1/status/9479123312

Great for Ant, not so great for the 1st race of the season :/

Is Herbert doing BTCC this year?

The only other person I can think of that would be reasonable would be a certain J. Stewart, but would he be at those races?

I hear Max Mosley isn't doing much nowadays. I'm sure he can step out of his dungeon for a few commentator roles.

I see BBC F1 have updated their website layout: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...one/default.stm

I didn't think it could get worse than before... seems like I was horribly wrong. Ugh.

So subtle, I can't actually see what's changed?

I saw Big Ted Kravitz presenting the sport on the BBC lunchtime news today.

Looked very uncomfortable in a suit and tie.

Coulthard, meanwhile, is in Moscow interviewing Vitaly Petrov, according to Adam Cooper.

There's been a few minor changes, but nothing on a major scale.

Still, I really think before Bahrain, they need a page for videos linked to on the left. Don't they listen to us?

Also, I wonder if we'll get any F1 trailers from this weekend? Probably not... We really should considering that 2010 is set up to be a cracking season...

..a cracking season that will yet again undeliver

Is it the font or the layout?

Layout.

But if you're not a regular visitor, you probably wouldn't notice.

Google Reader and RSS feed for me!

Yeah, the fact that they decided to break away from their normal website style and go for some silly black/grey layout really turns me off from visiting their F1 portal. It's awful stuff. Plus it seems to be more taxing on the browser than the rest of the regular BBC sites.

There's not much going on anyway. Little regarding anything technical and often much slower than other websites when it comes to F1 anyway. The gossip column is a decent aggregate. Overall I'd give the BBC F1 website a 5/10

But once the season gets underway, and they put up all the videos, replays, classics etc. It's the best IMO

The only thing they needed to do IMO, and they still haven't .

You have to use Google to fnd anything over a week or so old, and even that is hit and miss.

It'll be interesting to see who replaces Ant, considering Maurice Hamilton has gone. Herbert would be pretty good if available. Whilst I quite like JYS in the practices occasionally, I don't think he would be much good in qualifying or races, he made a couple of odd (and not really correct) calls last year, such as saying that Webber would have been a threat in Monza if he hadn't DNF'd, in the Singapore practice he did.