Impressed with coverage, Crofty and Brundle worked well together and it was lovely to have cockpit cameras on the iPad and seeing Alonso in the gravel.
It's always lovely seeing Alonso in the gravel.
Had a chance to see a stream of the qualifying coverage. Most of the good stuff has carried over, though that's part of the international feed so it wasn't dependent on the BBC anyway.
That Simon character who was hanging out with Damon Hill is pretty good at his job. Damon is also a decent talking head, so that part of the team looks in good shape at least.
On the other hand, Croft was
terrible - if I didn't know he'd commentated F1 before I wouldn't have believed it. Not knowing that you use separate tyre sets for practice and the race is very poor, and he spent half the time talking about people's helmets. They may as well have had that bird from the Sky Pad in the box - though that would have course have eliminated the only reason for having her, as the audience wouldn't be able to see her boobs.
Did we really need to be told
three times in a row that the coverage was in Dolby 5.1 surround? "No adverts in the race" includes not having your commentators put out soundbites puffing yourselves up when they should be talking about the race.
The roaming presenter - is it Ted Kravitz? - seems afraid to try and interview anybody. Alonso I'll grant is not talkative, but when you see both Sauber drivers together and don't even try to get a word out of them, why are you even there?
