The very thought of people writing in to the BBC asking to have James Allen back on air is just horrifying beyond words.

All the letters would be in crayon.

or if by email, comic sans.

I liked the bit in qualifying when Legard started telling us about Kate's Dirty Sister.

I can't believe that we get rid of the over excitement of James Allen, with all his screaming and over use of words like 'majestic' and 'scythes'. To Mr "dull" who sounds like he is commentating on a chess match. I have managed to get use to him though, by the end of race I have usually tuned him out. Leggard has got to go hopefully before the end of the season.

I can't complain to the Beeb, unfortunately I watch the world feed in NZ, luckily though we only have to listen to him during Quali and the race, all the practise sessions we get to listen to the awesome commentary from the the 5 live crowd. Ant Davidson is great, him and David Croft work together really well.

I was referring to humans. I would not put Wackie Jacqui in that category.

Her husbands a bit of a wanker as well, and we're all paying for it.

Ooh, DMN putting us all into a s hyper-sensitive state of anticipation!

My comment was suggesting if Legard puts in a good performance today whether people will regret sending in complaints (i.e. they complained too soon without giving him a real chance). I hope my comment never suggested that Legard will be dropped, because the BBC will not be dropping him within the near future.

It's not like people were saying he was crap beforehand and they were proved wrong. They've been unimpressed with him over the first three races. If he suddenly gets it together in race four, sure it will be good but it won't suddenly prove people wrong. Yeah three races into what will be a multi-year commentary team is a little early to write the book on the guy, but people aren't incorrect in their impressions of him, what else do they have to go on at this point? If he turns out to be great overtime people will enjoy it, they won't be thinking "blimey, I got that one wrong"

JL's commentary was much better yesterday -- he's beginning to gel with Brundle and realises less is better. BBC are certainly improving all the time.

Why has the live stream quality dropped big time?

Not really, at the point of making a complaint, the rationale was reasonable and fair.

If Legard becomes less dull then that doesn't change the fact he was interminable in the first three races. But the volume of further complaints to the BBC will probably drop off.

If he doesn't get better, then no doubt the complaints will remain consistent. And at the end of the season - if he doesn't get better - hopefully they'll take action.

I can't believe people think Dullard is improving? His talking about "Kate's Dirty Sister" yesterday was nothing short of cringeworthy. STFU you idiot.

Jake and DC, very coordinated

Right down to the belt buckle

lol @ JYS standing by Brundle, desperately hoping for an interview.

still better than Allen

Shame, thought that BBC had maybe banned MB from interviewing irrelevant celebs on the grid, seems not.

Listen to one of the provided alternatives than, and stop whining.

So sick of the moaning when there are 3 choices so noone has to listen to Leggard if you don't like him.

Brundle really really needs to plan his grid walks better. It's been formulaic for a few seasons now.

-Waste too much time standing next to the safety car telling us some bit about the first turn that everyone already knows and is usually covered in the track guide.

-Roam around on the first few rows where the drivers either aren't, or are not talking to people because they're on pole and trying to focus.

-Nab some random celeb/driver relation/person who really doesn't have anything to ad.


Could he not go midfield to see what the BMWs are going to try, being ultra heavy with fuel, or see what Webber's plan is being fairly light? Or arrange beforehand to talk to an engineer or technical director?

Bullshit.

Legard is getting worse and worse

No passion or anything, pathetic

Just now a great battle between Glock and Rosberg and not a flicker of emotion, it was like he was reading an autocue on News at 10

He has to be sacked and sacked fast

Dullard: "ahead of the Trulli, no Glock train" wtf?

He did one last year or the year before from the back of the grid.

Surprise surprise, nearly everyone talked.

5Live commentary stopped working.

Has anybody else's red button functionality gone screwy AGAIN today? I was listening to the 5 Live coverage and it then disappeared.

Yes, the red button thing has gone crazy.

I've been defending him but Legard isn't having a great day.

Sounds kind of disconnected.

Legard is getting worse, not better.

SACK HIM NOW BBC!!!!!

Brundle's having a really bad day too imo. I'm wondering of the commentary box air-con has packed up and they are struggling in the heat. Or they are missing support staff that help with what is going on.

I suspect Brundle is just losing interest in the job; being stuck with such a boring co-commentator can't be much fun for him.

Oh why don't you just listen to one of the other feeds if you hate him so much and stop moaning moaning moaning every other post of the thread.

Leggard is bloody awful...and it makes it worse since Martin is awesome. Get rid of him!!!

What horrible, uninteresting commentary.

Get a grip man

This thread is about discussion of the BBC commentary and BBC coverage and therefore opinions about the commentary team are relevant

Because sometimes I don't use my digital system, and sometimes the Red Button goes tits-up (like it did today).

Yes, but don't forget it is still Brundle's job.

So he's hardly going to walk.

The BBC commentators seemed to completely ignore the fact that Yoyota threw away the race at the first pit stops. It really annoys me actually how they were going on about how good Brawn was but failed to mention the idiots in charge of Toyota's strategy.

Slightly off topic but does anyone have any idea who sung the closing credits ? I know it was I Can See Clearly but it was not the version am familiar with

Good interview with Ross atm.

Ross speaks intelligently.

Of course he does, he's a friggin' God

No Legard in the forum again, thankfully.

Well we don't have to worry about this. Legard turned in a terribly sub-par (even by his own low standards) performance today.

Harldy noticed Legard today, listened to what Martin said but I was too busy watching the race to listen to Legard. Fail to see why others can't do that, he's not screaming in your ears like Allen.

Yes, I think this was Legard's poorest performance so far.

Is it not better not to notice the commentator, leave him alone, they may hire Allen, or wheel Muddly back in....

At least Allen usually screamed something informative...

Legard is unbelievably bad. Worse than I actually thought he'd be and what's worse is that Brundle's usually high-standard commentary is severely lacking because of it. He needs to go.

at the end lagard got brundle annoyed asking what tires massa was on in his last pitstop....lagard commentary all over the place.

I still fail to see peoples problems with Legard, he obviously spends a lot of time on research before or he takes in everything that he told by MH during the race as if you listen he gives lots of facts about previous races during it. He commentates on the race without sensationalising everything or getting giddy over the brits. You also have extra options, and for those who claim Martins commentary isn't as good as it was but then say they wont switch to the 5live commentary because they want Martin your being hypocritical.

Eddie's just been off on another me, me, me, me, me again, he's the far bigger problem than Jonathan.