F1 Fanatic

There seems to be a common pattern emerging of people watching BBC pre and post analysis with Sky for the race for the one and only reason of Brundle.

This could leave Sky with a really big problem, if it becomes the norm for so many, in that there is no advertising revenue to be made in an uninterrupted race. The advertisers will obviously notice this and stop stumping up the cash to promote on the bits of the progam next to no one is watching. No cash = no SKY F1. I think they need to improve a lot and fast to make this work for them.

The BBC commentary during the race was surprisingly good.

There seems to have been a significant improvement in the quality of Sky’s output, they were getting much more analysis into their post-race coverage. Simon, Martin and Damon also seem to be gelling too, however I still think the BBC have the best lineup.

@jimmyt Why was he on the forum?

I havn’t watched much of the BBC coverage, only odd 10mins here and there. The sky coverage I feel is fantastic, there seems to be a lot more efort put into interviews at each circuit, but interviews off circuit are fantastic. I feel that they are really making the sport alot easier to understand for new people to the sport which is what we want. There’s a lot more coverage time, aswel as the sky f1 channel always on hand. But I do miss the cheeky Eddie, jake and dc, you could always count on Eddie asking the most awkward of questions that we all wanted answered, and he really stuck by the f1 fans, with DC & Jake always trying to soften the blow of some of his remarks. I like simon and martain, but feel that damon hill is really lacking in trying to complete sky’s line up, but hope with time they can grow. For coverage I pick sky, but for presenter line up, BBC. But maybe with everyones remarks, next time I’ll watch bbc and record sky+.

Or you could tune into the BBC F1 Forum and get both ;)

Isn’t it great that we get the best of both worlds online, with things like Ted Kravitz’s notebooks and the BBC Forum there.

Thanks @PJ for putting the Brundle clip on. That forum’s a really enjoyable half-hour, I thought – worth a look if you’re in the UK, and all the better because Eddie Jordan’s not there. He’d have ruined the enconter with Brundle, and without his questions they can talk to more people.

Didn’t realise they did one that many hours after the race, so I’ve only just watched it. It carries on in the same tone with Jo Ramirez, Jaime Alguersuari, the Force India and Marussia bosses, Ben Edwards joins in and there’s a forklift driver who’s gone from catering to Caterham and knows his freight better than Damon Hill.

Lets face it they basically pinched the BBCs format pretty much exactly. The only difference between BBC and sky coverage is we now have to shell out for all that stuff we used to just get given :). Funny watching the respective tv teams dodge each others camera shots and Ted and Gary fighting over the interviewees. (Ted Kravitz obviously isnt to be found jogging around the track on a thursday after all those pies!)

If anything those old season review programs have reminded me how much better old F1 was though its quite funny seeing young Ron Dennis, Schumacher, Barichello, button, Jordan, Anderson, Newey, Whitmarsh, Raikonnen etc etc and even a then rookie massa still being told to move over out the way of team mate 10 years later!! Get Montoya back in F1 for amusement i think.

Also a shame Natalie Pinkham managed to shatter the illusion of being at least partially intelligent until she opened her trap and asked when high tide was in monaco! omg lol. And treating Pic like a baby on the f1 show last friday hahha