Glad to hear about Ted as well!

We will be, after a race with Jonathan Legard. There will suddenly be a commentator who can only state the obvious. It will be a severe test of Brundle's manners IMO.

they'll be releasing more details as to how everything will work sometime in the future,so will have to wait and see-i'd imagine the practice sessions may just be on the red button,with quali and the race possibly also on the web,but i guess we'll have to wait and see

Why would you think Toby would want to do it?

Don't diss Kravitz, he's been great, providing meaningful reports from the pitlane.

EJ, on the other hand, will be dreadful, saying how much better he would be at running a team.

I have to say I would take Allen over Legard any day, but other than that the team looks good. Its just a pity that the internet assasination of Allen seems to have had an effect on the BBC when it came to chosing commentators.

It'll be a case of "Let's hear from Ted" and "Let's hear about Eddie". Dreadful choice, however he may choke on his own ego.

Well he's lost his job doing MotoGP for Eurosport, he started in F1 at Benetton and he was commentating Classic F1 at Silverstone in the Summer, alongside Murray Walker. And doing it very well. Why wouldn't he want the premier motorsports commentary job?

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showpos...postcount=10215

jb26 has commented over at Digital Spy saying:

*Peter Windsor was the internal rumour for Kravitz's role.
*Coulthard at races; with Humphrey and Jordan in the studio.
*Not every race at HD.

Not sure about Humphrey/Jordan in studio.

Quite pleased with the line up although i would have preferred Ben Edwards as a commwntator but i'll not judge Legard before he even starts. Humphrey is just another run of the mill BBC presenter but he has done quite a bit of sports coverage so its a possiblity he likes F1 (if not it aint the end of the world). Dunno what they're thinking with Eddie Jordan though

Nope, Legard is a well qualified and good commentator as opposed to the forced and repetitive delivery of James Allen. Always liked listening to 5live when Legard was commentating.

Only EJ disappoints me I'm willing to give Ted a second chance as he can be a good pit reported.

No Allen, no Goodman, no Ryder, no adverts... sounds good to me

I'll prefer Jordan MUCH more than Mark Blundell definitely - even though EJ isn't my preferred person to have the role. Jordan isn't afraid to give his opinion - he isn't afraid to tell the truth - something Blundell rarely did on ITV.

Yeah he's definitley an improvement on Blundell (although who wouldnt be), but for whatever reason ive never been a fan of EJ, but i shall wait and see how he does.

i just hope that 'Auntie' has a 5 second delay in transmissions from both DC & EJ as both have been known, in the past, to drop the odd blooper when live on air and i would not like to see a rush of complaints from people who haven't watched the programme about language

why oh why did they pick kravitz. he is the worst kind of s*n style journo. His "stunt" at sao paulo was pathetic, and I hope this is not a hint of the kind of coverage beeb intend to provide.

As dumb a piece as it was, I doubt it was all Kravitz idea and work. I reckon ITV had something to do with it themselves.

Maybe, but he still, imo, seemed to spend more time trying to hunt for "scandal" up and down the pitlane than he did reporting what was actually going on in the race.

Who is this jb26? He seems not to have known about the BBC team or when they would be revealed. Does he work there? and won't they be too pleased about someone leaking internal rumours?

Are you kidding me? That was pure gold.

That was a little stupid, but his commentary on Massa's fuel hose mishap at Singapore -- a truly spontaneous event -- was little short of inspired, IMO. And, in the words of The Simpsons' Superintendent Chalmers, he seems to know all the kids' names.

"The Cock" has made his view clear here: http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/f1diary.htm



Yep, he works for BBC team (I think he has something to do with the interactive side - but don't keep me to that). And no, he never revealed exact roles - he just gave an idea of what's to be expected.

What stunt was that?

Im happy with this news, although i dont know who Jonathon Leggard is, Ted in the pits will be nice again

Listening to Legard just puts you to sleep. Why the BBC chose him I have no idea. I don't think he even has an interest in F1 either.

Apparantly more people are expected to be announced in the New Year. I'd expect that to be Support Race people and stuff.

Oh, and seeing as we won't see him next year, here is the Best of Blundell 2008: http://planet-f1.com/story/0,18954,3262_4528149,00.html



Jonathan Legard - 2002 F1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thtjgl_81J4 - sorry there's music in the background
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G0MJj8CpGQ

I remember his voice, mainly cause I listened to qualifying on BBC Five Live when the F1 was in Canada.

The new bbc crew have not done a single show yet give them a chance.

C'mon the Brits lets all be pessimistic.

Some of you seem to just hate everything and everyone. Its so bloody tedious.

I doubt EJ could complain about that kind of appraisal. He'll make a decent pundit, though; it'll be interesting to see someone in sports broadcasting who actually has an opinion.

Its a shame more people can't concentrate on the main event on the man's CV, that he ran Jordan GP BRILLIANTLY, for many years. How many other privateers perished before or since?

I think the guy's got a personality AND says it the way it is. I think he'll be good.

If your pre-decided that he's big Guinness drinking ego, you'll be looking for ways to criticize him come March. Your loss.

He didn't run the team that well, if you're honest about things; and he only ever says things as he sees them, based on how it involves him.

Please anyone but EJ.... Come back James Allen your not a cock at all...

Oh dear.



Pre-decided? We've been through years and years evolving to that final conclusion.

I could have lived with the whole of the ITV crew if it meant we lost the adverts but the one person in addition to Martin Brundle I thought really deserved to be on board was Ted Kravitz.

Legard and Liz McKenzie are an unknown quantity to me, but with Martin Brundle in the box, Ted Kravitz in the pits and DC as a pundit the coverage is sure to be good. Overall, it looks like a good team.

An Irish Eddie is bound to add some flavour to the mix.

Jordan is bound to be entertaining but Irvine would be better. Probably beyond the BBC Budget though !

Just to clarify, is DC going to be replacing James Allen and commentating alongside Brundle like Allen does now? Or does he have some other role?

@gerry:



legard replaces allen as lead commentator, brundle has the same role, and coulthard and jordan have a similar role to blundell.

Thanks mate!!

I thought pundit sounded like a pre-show roll but wasnt sure.

Excellent, i like Lee...she's sexy !

Looks like a great line-up. Thank the lord the cock, aka James Allen, doesn't feature.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport...one/7745347.stm

Tim

And we happen to receive the BBC here in the Netherlands . Might as well say RTL GP goodbye since I think the BBC has much better quality coverage.

Hope they don't switch off the channel for us Dutchies. Can they do that technically?

Terrible, just terrible. I have no other word for it. Might as wel hire James Allen too.

I have been watching on Dutch TV RTL/SBS for years. My only hope for the BeeB is that they don't do what they do (currently) on RTL, That is to take EVERY SINGLE OPPORTUNITY to try to turn it into some sort of nationalistic activity.
To hear the likes of Allard Kalf try to link anything with Holland in any way possible:- "this engineer used to work for a team who hired a tea-boy who used to live next door to someone who once met a Dutchman!!!!"It's laughable, and the host is even worse.
Taking time out from tech analysis in order to interwiew a Dutchman who was working in F1 is one thing, but what was his job?

TO SWEEP THE PITLANE!!!!!!!!!!

So please auntie beeb, try to keep it objective.

Although I will miss Olav Mol, he's like a dutch Murray Walker!

Won't be missing the bloody ad-breaks every 20 mins though!!!

Tony.

You serious?

So many uneducated fools here, Legard is a logical choice having already spent 7 years of his life commentating on F1. Only questionable appointement is Jordan, but at least he'll keep it interesting rather than dullard Blundell.

What was the supposed Ted Kravitz stunt in Brazil? What happened?

Do yourself a favour and Google image search her name... Or don't, if you're at work or have guessed what this entails.

The crowd were doing a fair bit of boo'ing at Hamilton.. just harmless support for Massa really. So Ted did a short piece on the start/finish stood next to the fence a short distance from the fans, and got a Union Jack out of his jacket and waved it at them. Needless to say the crowd got quite noisy.

No. BBC are signed up to Freesat.

They would have blocked coverage of other stuff such as FA Cup, Olympics etc long ago if this was the case.

Hopefully it might be HD coverage too.

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does anybody know who made the 80's reviews?. His humour is fantastic, although he had the benefit of hindsight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ0Hq_WIRAQ

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It's Clive James.

Few notes from jb26 over on Digital Spy Forums [a few updates/reminders]:

*For European races, after they have finished, 4 x 2 hour replays will air on the Red Button.
*Same thing likely for Asian races - depending on capacity issues - for instance if any other sports are on. BBC One replay will likely be in sync. with one of the Red Button replays.
*Some contract problems in regards support events. GP2 and Porsche Supercup races are no problem, however there appears to be issues regarding "minor" events, for instance GP2 and Porsche Supercup qualifying.