The Australian GP was great, etc, etc - or so I heard. I had to listen to it on the radio because we don't have a telly in our house and no internet just yet. It was very exciting - this is a good part of the year because any tedium is edged out by novelty and fascination as new teams and new drivers test each others' limits.
The fact that the BBC have got the F1 rights back again is also worthy of note and praise as I have just spent an evening on iPlayer (the grammar police have really got to crack down on these flagrant abuses of the English language) - no adverts, hurrah! Quality coverage, hooray! Excellent commentators, standard! I love Martin Brundle, and Jonathan Legard is also excellent - they fitted together marvellously in their first outing, I find myself wondering whether they've been locked in a hotel room in Slough together, playing old VHS tapes of races gone by and doing some practice commentary like so much karaoke.
I'm imagining Jonathan Legard doing commentary in my head now, and I'm reasonably sure that it's not some sort of personality disorder. Actually I had to email my mum the other week (she's a mental health nurse) because I had Celine Dion singing River Deep, Mountain High for two solid days, I thought it was some sort of disorder I was going through.
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My sources tell me they *were* locked in a hotel room together. In the darkest Cotswolds. But they were doing other things than commentating! :)
ReplyDelete"I had Celine Dion singing River Deep, Mountain High for two solid days." - Cripes, I'd've booked myself into that place in Switzerland where you can be put down.
ReplyDeleteBrennig - truly scandalous. And I bet they ordered naughty films on expenses too.
ReplyDeleteStuart - it was a consideration, but I couldn't really afford it. Second option was wandering through East London in an England football shirt, but I decided I love life too much.