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I watched the Race live with sky and the BBC program this afternoon and both shows are missing something. As many have commented, Sky’s presentation just felt stiff or stuffy and just a bit lost.
The commentary team of Brundle and Croft is fantastic, it’s what i had hoped BBC would do a couple of years back, but I do miss Coulthard’s technical insight.
From the BBC though, Couthard and Ben Edwards are good, but they do seem to lack that “race event awareness” that Brundle is so quick and accurate with; Example Brundle quickly assumed the safety car was going to be needed after Petrov retired and instantly Knew that McLaren were compromised by this, whereas on BBC no one really mentioned a potential safety car until it was announced and they kept on how this was good for McLaren. But this brings me on to my biggest issue with BBC, Gary Anderson! His insight is useless! He said that Vettel didn’t have to back off under safety car conditions because we wasn’t round by the incident area, so he could keep full speed and get the jump on McLaren, Seriously? At least Brundle explained the Lap Time Delta and how all drivers are effected.
But as for presentation i have to say Sky will need to up their game, What’s with the 15sec video montages in their post race analysis, in fact where is their post race analysis? And driver interviews played in on the parade lap? Really? And they need more Anthony Davidson! He’s the only person there who’s got (Relatively) recent racing experience, like Coulthard on BBC, so they need to use him more to keep it current and informative, not just speak to him for 1 minute of analysis here and there, and surely he’s strong enough to present the SkyBox sections himself, Georgie doesn’t bring anything useful to the discussion.
Hopefully some of Simon Lazenby’s awkwardness will go as he settles in the paddock and gets known by the teams and drivers. Only time will tell. I had higher hopes for Damon, and dare i say it but i think i prefer Eddie Jordan to him!
But as for post race analysis BBC have got it sorted, Jake’s charisma just shines through, his interviews with drivers just has the right flow, and he asks the questions we all want to ask…

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