Definitely. the experts are just as blinded by the stats as we are sometimes. Like when MB rubbished JL's comments about the tires today. Legard's response was I am only reporting what the Bridgstone guys tell me. To me this speaks volumes about Legard's lack of ability when it come down to really reading the information that is provided falls way short IMO

Wrong quote picked sorry...

as for the Sunday morning sports lady, she was useless. Completely thrown by the question

From what I heard at the time JL started to say "we're told that these tyres are .4 of a second slower..." and MB cut across him as he was about to say 'but...'.

You've quoted me about something which doesn't even concern your post?

see edit

Much better effort from Legard and I think he and Brundle are finally getting a double act going. Plenty of room to improve but a big step in the right direction.

Cue the end of the world merchants.......

did brundle say that alonso had kers when he was trying to overtake webber

yes

lol i thought legard would have corrected him

They all said Alonso had Kers on the car throughout the F1 Forum.

Pre-race was good as usual. Don't remember seeing any features that were also shown yesterday. Liked the Kimi interview.

The race itself was meh. Seeing as Barcelona clearly cannot produce top-class racing, I suggest the race is thrown off the calendar... surely they would realise that adding a chicane before the final corner helps no one? Just get rid of this bore-fest from the calendar. Legard and Brundle were OK, although I did find Legard's comment about "quoting from Bridgestone" quite sarcastic.

Running to 15:15 on BBC One is clearly not a good idea; run to 15:00 and 15:05 is fine.... there seemed to be a few "loose straws" I thought on the end of the BBC One coverage. Run to 15:15 only at longer races, i.e. Monaco and Singapore.

The forum seemed OK however it doesn't help when you have an incredibly bored Martin Brundle. As I noted above it doesn't help when some features have already been shown on BBC One (Hamilton interview, Webber/Alonso) hence why today I think the forum should have been from 15:05 with the BBC One programme finishing at 15:05. Liked the Newey interview as well.

Lee's interview with Lewis: What answer was she expecting off him? Hamilton doesn't really care if he's being lapped, he wants to win, of course its not nice to be lapped is he really going to say "I was really annoyed when being lapped blah blah blah". No.

Questions I would have probably asked:

1) do you feel your start effectively ruined the race for you
2) if that never happened do you feel that you would have finished in the points
3) how was the last stint on hard tyres
4) prospects for Monaco

Trouble is, Lewis appears to be getting Schumacher syndrome when confronted with closed questions.

So your interview would have gone:

1) do you feel your start effectively ruined the race for you? Lewis: Yes.
2) if that never happened do you feel that you would have finished in the points. Lewis: Yes.
3) how was the last stint on hard tyres. Lewis: Awful.
4) prospects for Monaco. Lewis: I just have to thank the team for working so hard on this upgrade. I drove my heart out, as I always do, but it wasn't enough today. I just have to thank the team and everyone back at the factory for working so hard. I love Monaco and hopefully we'll be stronger there.

Driver can elaborate on answer; said what happened. They mentioned in commentary; or rather over team-radio that his tyres were ruined.

So do you think that if DC had back then had a temper tantrum and stomped his feet it would have helped the team give him a better car? Would it help Lewis in the same way? Of course it wouldn't. To suggest that any F1 driver past or present does not want to win is just plain stupid. To criticise the team would get him no-where. To me the best drivers take the rough with the smooth and that was all DC was saying.

I'm not having a go at your post, but I think Lewis is starting to dead end closed questions much more than he's done in the past.

As for the interview with his girlfriend on the grid today. Sheesh...

I think she left her brain in the hotel room.

It wasn't high wattage television...

Surely you've heard her 'music' that's the sum total of her intelligence.

I thought Brundle eating an ice cream on air during the forum, whilst sat next to Jordan who was still ranting on about Kimi's ice cream incident in Malaysia, was just fantastic.

I was expecting him to say 'I was hoping to stay on the lead lap in case massa ran out of fuel on the last lap. but when button passed i was certain to finish out side of the points. it didn't matter in the end.'

his actual answer suggested the team weren't thinking that way. which is actually quite interesting.

he may also have made a joke that jenson could have let him past at the end as michael did for ralf once, in a patriotic act.

Old Martin appears to be piling on the pounds this year.

I think Lewis was utterly pissed off, and who could blame it.

It is kind of the opposite of the situation from 07 where Louise Goodman would occassionally ask Jenson Button how happy he was for Lewis.

You've got to feel sorry for the drivers in that case, because I really don't think they feel happy for anyone who finishes ahead of them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...one/8042842.stm

Webbers face from 4:00 is just hilarious. Did anyone catch his F-Bomb? God I love this guy

EJ was amusing today. Trying to debate why drivers did what they did on lap 1, when sat next to two former drivers was amusing. Also introducing himself to Newey "Eddie here" before he began his question.. not sure why he did that.

was there ever any discussion about alonso pushing rosberg off track in T1 triggering all the mess? specifically about it stemming from alonso?

yeah, I saw that, rosberg speared off to the right causing trulli to run wide onto the gravel. Bit dodgy there. I'd blame it on Rosberg to be honest.

Gah!

Th highlights had the disgusting neon-pink "Three" Logo on all teh way through.
I had been so happy they had not shown this in the previous highlights so far as well. Hoped that policy was going to last the season...

Yeah Webber's tongue rolling and Rubinho's stare had me in stitches.

Yeah Webber was thinking "Bonza that was a good crash!!!" while Rubens was thinking "God damn it screwed over again!"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/jakehumphrey/20...oors_and_w.html

Jake blog.

The missus and I were drawn to Webber's facial oddness during the press conference as well. Strangely compelling and utterly hilarious!

His reaction when watching the crash was quite classic.

It must be hard to go from being hyped up, blood pumping for 90 minutes, having the rush of getting a good result, then having to sit still and look composed in front of a global press conference.

I nearly fell over at the irony involved with Brundle casually devouring an Ice cream live on camera whilst those around him talked technical and F1. It was like witnessing some kind of post-modern performance art piece.

Did anyone also notice Brundles arm lingering rather long on Eddie Jordans shoulder I think as EJ declared that KERS cars 'do' infact 'weigh more'.

It was also an inspired choice to invite uber boffin Newey into the studio, even if he claims he is going deaf due to so many years in motorsport.

Classic BBC, five hours of intermission free original F1 content.

It's just a shame we still have to suffer 'Radio' Legard during the race itself.

Agreed, and if his season doesn't improve and media keep asking the same bland, unimaginative questions then he's going to end up like Schumacher did and speak to almost literally nobody at any point ever.

Apparantly some "fat" woman MP (not my words!) has just been on the news criticising the BBC for wasting money on the Formula 1 rights....

Would it be the most expensive BBC property? I guess the Olympics, but that seems like a sacred cow.

I *think* the rights are about £30 to £40 million a year.

Attitudes like that make my piss boil.

I think all the costume dramas and abysmal attempts at comedy shows are an utter waste of BBC money, which just so happens to be funded by my licence fee and not just by MP's licence fees. I don't however lobby my local MP to raise the issue in Parliament, so neither do I expect other MP's to waste Parliament time on singling out individual programmes.

I agree. Do you find that when your piss boils, steam comes out of your ears? Happens to me a lot...

NO.

F1 is just over £30M a year.

MOTD is £57M a year

6 Nations Rugby is £40M a year.

The Olympics, like the World cup and Euro's might not be as much as it could be as the BBC and ITV (not the Olympics) bid jointy as part of the EBU. I'm sure I read somewhere that this going to change so they might have to pay more in the future but I dont know for sure.

I don't know, I never seem to be near a mirror in such instances, so haven't been able to confirm it so far.

£57M for those measly 10 min highlights, which aren't even allowed to be hosted online? Definitely makes F1 look like a bargain...

MP's!! they're the ones who cheat the tax payer to get their light bulbs changed for free and they complain about the BBC wasting money GRRR!!!!

Yeah! It's enough to make your piss boil...

dunno there's too much steam coming out of my ears to tell

How much do they pay for Wimbledon?

Dunno, there's too much steam to see...

So much piss to boil, so little time...

Ah, so that would account for the yellow tint on the screen. Always wondered what was causing that ... Thanks Tony.