Formula One ( F1 )

No formal announcement yet, but an interesting fact in yesterday's Grauniad piece...

In August, Channel 4 took a minority stake in Whisper Films, the sports production company part-owned by Coulthard and BT presenter Jake Humphrey.

Boom. I quite liked Jake, in a minor public school kinda way.

I'll miss Suzi Perry though. It was great having a female face amongst all the old tax exile men.

Murray Walker ;)

With Bruce Forsyth?

And Phil and Paul in the pit lane?

Like or loathe Murray, it certainly sounded more interesting with him, even if the racing wasn't great! (He gave Private Eye a column inch or two also)

Jimmy Carr?
Jon Snow?

Maybe Countdown could spare Rachel Riley for the occasional weekend?

Jason Bradbury is the worst television presenter ever.

Chris Evans?

BBC iPlayer is terrible on Virgin media, at least All4 works. I can't watch F1 until after the boys are in bed, anyway.

C4 have just announced it will be.....
Ant & Dec.

No advertising breaks during the race.

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/channel-4-becomes-terrestrial-home-of-formula-1

John McVie and Mick Fleetwood have a penchant for Hawaiian shirts which could help us forget EJ's fashion choices.

But Mick Fleetwood has already proved that he can't present to save his life.

Can EJ?

Good point.

my dads 80th birthday this year
would like to take him to the british grand prix
where should i buy tickets / are there any left

would like saturday entry then overnight camp for the race on sunday ... whats the best ticket for this option ?

whats are the deals with the tickets ? does a ticket gain you access to the whole circuit and fun fairs etc
i've been to motogp / wsb races at donnington brands and silverstone and the tickets give you free reign to pretty much all areas ... even managed to sneak into a grandstand or two
is it the same at F1 weekends could we walk around the full length of the track for example ?

Is he up for camping at 80? Fair play to him.

yeah him and mum head off to the continent most years with a tent in the boot of the car

not every night though

Yeah standard tickets you can walk around the whole track and will be a couple of decent places to watch if you can get through the crowds, Maggots for example. You wont be allowed into most grandstand though unless you have a granstand pass

@dicki - fly into Abu Dhabi, get the full weekend tickets in a grandstand for under €300 and enjoy access to the pit lane on the Thursday. Watch all the incidentals over the course of the weekend...

can my old man have the sofa ?

He probably could actually.