Sky reaches for the… BBC
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Sky has today announced its team for the 2012 F1 coverage and the main chaps seem awfully familiar.

David Croft has jumped ship from BBC Radio 5live and has taken up the Martin Brundle role of lead commentator.

Martin Brundle himself will be the eyecandy of the new coverage and in the commentary box will be being David Coulthard next year.

Ant Davidson will be commentating on the bits that the big boys can’t be arsed.

Ted Kravitz will be Ted Kravitz.

Natalie Pinkham will carry on being Tony Jardine

Steve Rider will be Jake Humphrey AND Eddie Jordan.

No one has been confirmed as Eddie Jordan’s Shirts… yet.

In terms of coverage it does actually sound all quite good, with full showings of all sessions, more in depth analysis, getting to see things like the drivers parades and those other bits we always moan about not seeing as well as lots of promises of new innovations and technical wizardry.

So who is left at the BBC? When he’s not off doing the Olympics or whatever else needs a furrowed brow we presume that Jake Humphrey will carry on with his diminishing group of ‘friends’ watching and, what with their names not being mentioned today DC and EJ are probably staying put.

But will DC commentate on his own? Not likely. Unbelievably it’s already being rumoured that Jonathan Legard or James Allen might be back in the shitseat which leads us to conclude that Sky have paid for their BBC coverage to make the Sky £10 a month F1 channel more appealing to us.

Today I took part in an awkward Press conference over the phone with Brundle, Croft and Kravitz alongside a host of other F1 podcasts and websites. I had one serious question and one silly question lined up, but due to the weird vagaries of a conference call I only spoke up to ask

“With Eddie Jordan not being announced, can you confirm there’ll be no bad poetry at the start of the shows next year?”

I don’t think they found it funny…
  • http://twitter.com/BrettFoster2010 Brett Foster

    I think we should get the driver to commentate on the race. live feeds from their cockpits! 

  • Bungabunga

    I have a theory that the BBCs coverage will be absolute shit next year as their plan is to get f1 on the BBC axed by 2014, to free up some cash for .

    If my plan is correct they will have the shittest possible commentary team announced for next year,  this is my suspected lineup:Anchor – Humpty Dumpty, realising people only talked to him cos DC and EJ were around.  He’s the Peter Pettigrew of F1 coverage.
    Co-hosts - Claudia Winkleman and Vernon Kaye… Cunts.Commentators – Legard and Craig Charles.   Legard spends 15 races trying to figure out which colour relates to which tyre (which is in fact fair enough) whilst Craig Charles is pure comic effect
    Natalie Pinkham as Natalie Pinkham

  • Bungabunga

    ** Cant think of anything that the BBC have spent money on the recent past thats been any good…

  • Doug Rattray

    My vote is for Messrs Saunders and Shepherd to commentate.  Although this might result in massive bias, everyone involved being called a cunt and forgetting to mention who actually won any race.

  • Phillip_harben

    I don’t blame MB and the others for defecting. Let’s face it, it’s either jump ship or stand in the dole queue. As Sky is setting up to run as a rival to the BBC with different commentary teams, it is not much of a competition. I am now, not even going to watch any races. 

    I was going to try listening to Crofty and watch an international feed via the web, but I shan’t bother now. I’m not going to listen to Leg-’ard waffling about exciting things that are happening in his head. I had heard a rumour that Natalie Pinkham was going to get work on Babestation, but I think that’s out the window now. Maybe it was EJ?

  • Teflonso

    A live feed from Adrial Sutils cockpit would have to be after watershed…

  • Lita

    Thought you might enjoy this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td1ZxxUubCY&list=FLBQhBSXVEKHqBq-mz6gpXgQ&index=4&feature=plpp_video

  • Phil

    Hello? Fellas? Anyone home?



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