F1 new format

[Rooky9]

Really getting into this season. Good to see button going well.

I think the BBC are nailing the coverage and the lack of breaks is a bonus. The only issue I have is the commentator. He seems slow to pick things up that he should. Brundle tries to steer him through, but he's not quite there for me.

Let's go Jenson!

[gatso]

Really getting into this season. Good to see button going well.

I think the BBC are nailing the coverage and the lack of breaks is a bonus. The only issue I have is the commentator. He seems slow to pick things up that he should. Brundle tries to steer him through, but he's not quite there for me.

Let's go Jenson!

it's the jesse may style of commentating. one of the pair acts like they don't know what they're talking about, the other one explains the basics. it's a way of getting simple points across to the lay viewer without the more experienced viewer thinking it's all been dumbed down. maybe the double act needs a bit of fine tuning though

[cia260895]

Really getting into this season. Good to see button going well.

I think the BBC are nailing the coverage and the lack of breaks is a bonus. The only issue I have is the commentator. He seems slow to pick things up that he should. Brundle tries to steer him through, but he's not quite there for me.

Let's go Jenson!

it's the Jesse May style of commentating. one of the pair acts like they don't know what they're talking about, the other one explains the basics. it's a way of getting simple points across to the lay viewer without the more experienced viewer thinking it's all been dumbed down. maybe the double act needs a bit of fine tuning though

Whoever they use it just isnt Murray somethings just cant be improved on

It is so pleasing to see button in a car that can deliver at last especially after he had stuck with Honda when they were trying to develope thier pony.

[ ] honda are well pleased

[ x ] branson/brawn must be larfing their bollox off

[cia260895]

and just to confirm his legendry status:

"He's obviously gone in for a wheel change. I say obviously because I can't see it"

"With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go"

"Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough ?"

"Anything happens in Grand Prix racing and it usually does"

"Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place"

"As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is 5th"

"I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem"

"He is shedding buckets of adrenalin in that car"

"It's raining and the track is wet"

"And there's just a few more corners for Nigel Mansell to go to win the Canadian Grand Prix...and...he's going rather slow....HE'S STOPPING HE'S STOPPING!"

"and this is the third placed car about to lap the second placed car"

"they say clothes maketh the man... the clothes are Niki Lauda's, but the contents are me..." as Murray prepares to take a drive in a F1 car." [He gets a total distance of... oh, 1 foot before he stalls it.] (Apparently, this was the second attempt to film Murray in an F1 McLaren - the first, earlier that day, had gone very well, but for technical reasons couldn't be used!)

[During a F1 race, describing how the leader can see the driver following him] "... Mansell can see him in his earphone..."

"So Bernie [Ecclestone], in the seventeen years since you bought McLaren, which of your many achievements do you think was the most memorable ?" Bernie Answers, "Well I don't remember buying McLaren." [Bernie Ecclestone used to own the Brabham team].

Murrary: "What's that? There's a BODY on the track!!!" James: "Um, I think that that is a piece of BODY-WORK, from someone's car."

Murray: There's a fiery glow coming from the back of the Ferrari James: No Murray, that's his rear safety light

As an introductory piece for a rallysprint race, Murray was put in the Navigator's seat alongside Tony Pond in a Chevette HSR (270 BHP, rwd, and TWITCHY), added an in-car camera, and wired Murray for sound. The result can be deduced by extrapolating his usual excitement and enthusiasm, and adding a large pinch of raw terror! "And there's a 600 foot drop on my left..AND we're doing 120 mph... AND we're approaching a hairpin...OH MY GOD we're going to die..."

[after a post race interview with Mansell after the Austrian GP 1987] Murray : "How did you get that nasty bumb on your head Nigel?" [Nigel leans forward to show the camera as Murray pokes it with his finger !] Nigel: "OWCH!!"

Murray: And look at the flames coming from the back of Berger's McLaren
James: Actually, Murray, they're not flames, it's the safety light.

Murray, commentating on rallycross from Lydden, describes how a BMW driver has cut holes in his windscreen so that his visibility is improved in all the muck... as he is doing so, the car crashes heavily into an earth bank...

From the Spanish GP 1995: "and Eddie Jordan is in fifth place"... (actually Eddie Irvine in one of his compatriot Eddie Jordan's cars).

"...and he's lost both right front tyres" (which may have been accurate back in the days of the Tyrrell P34, but it was from 1995!)

[Rooky9]

I thought itv got the commentary part better. I don't think it's dumming down, I'm not thinking about technical stuff, just spotting which drivers are where!

Rob Smedley lost a bit more today as well.

[gatso]

the sport is becoming a bigger farce than a newmanseye quiz

so now next year there could be 2 levels of championship competing in the same races and no ferrari

great

[mondatoo]

The sport was already a bigger farce, haven't watched a race this season and i don't miss it,i expect the mugs that run f1 will probably buy us. gg /life

[Dino]

Ferarri,Toyota,Renault,Red Bull/Torro Rosso,have all said they will not race in a 2 tier championship, gg FIA.