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[s2driveruk]

yeah the sniffpetrol 'Stop the '****' Allen' campaign seems to have worked

[curlyks2]

No more James Allen?

Bring back Murray Walker

Ck.

[Markarina]

Did you happen to know/work with Graham Taylor or Charlie Bamber at Arrows?

Don't remember Charlie, from memory Graham was one of the race engineers alongside Chris Dyer who is now at Ferrari

[Keeper of The Kitten]

Strange that some people still think ITV "lost" the rights to F1 ...no such thing is true, they totally relinquished the rights in favour of football (note to Americans - the game where the ball is actually kicked a lot).

I see a lot of the "bring back Murray" campaign, which I wouldn't actually disagree with ...but how many people realise that MW actually said the ITV coverage is far more in-depth than BBC ever gave? And how many people remember that BBC didn't show live qualification for most of their time covering F1, and not every race got live coverage either?

I'm more concerned that we'll lose coverage of GP2 as well when F1 goes to BBC again. We'll see if they actually give as much as ITV did. Commercial breaks and James Allen aside, I think the independents made a good fist of it.

[KaraK]

I'd agree with most of that Keeper but I would say that the depth and quality of the itv coverage has certainly gone down over the last couple of years - James Allen is definately the biggest of their problems but he is by no means the only one.

[Keeper of The Kitten]

Very true - I think it will be a matter of time before we see whether BBC (the only broadcaster offered the rights by Bernie) does a far better job.