TV coverage for 2016 season

We know that the BBC gave up its rights to cover F1 Grand Prix in 2016

Channel 4 will now provide tv coverage, with some races live.
Steve Jones is the main presenter, with David Coulthard combining presenting and commentary with lead commentator Ben Edwards.
Karun Chandhok with Lee McKenzie will be interviewing the drivers.
Eddie Jordan, Mark Webber, Susie Wolff, Bruno Senna, Alain Prost, Alessandro Zanardi and Nicholas Hamilton will act in the role of pundit at some point in time.
 
Personally I am sorry that the BBC coverage is gone because I thought that the team did a good job. Some of the team (but not all) are transferring to the Channel 4 setup. Suzi Perry will not be one of them.

Suzi Perry had been presenting MotoGP and The Gadget Show before taking on F1. So with that useful experience, together with her natural beauty and presence, she was very good at asking just the right question at the right time to make the perfect F1 presenter. Now we have Steve Jones who I have never heard of, and never seen. He must be a F1 and motorsport novice and I hope that he does not try and impose some sort of 'personality' into the presentation role and instead just provides intelligent input of the sort that Suzi did.

As I am in Melbourne currently and will attend the Albert Park GP, I will not see any of the C4 coverage for the first few races. Hopefully it will get up to speed.

  March 2016

 

 

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