Radio Le Mans coverage discussion.

[Thumper]

Originally Posted by Stranger

But who would do the DSC live reports then when you're 'on air'

Oh, I'm sure there's someone!

[Graham Goodwin]

Originally Posted by Thumper

Oh, I'm sure there's someone!

We've got so much talent available you wouldn't believe it!

[Graham Goodwin]

Originally Posted by Matt Hunter

Ok so going back to Silverstone. As someone who was there all three days and who was involved in the #23 fire I can say having listened back to the FP3 coverage they did miss it and it was only whe Paul Trusswell saw the smoke coming up that it was looked into. The reason for this was essentially because there was NO TV feed for that session so any commentary was relying on what the team could see out of the window, on the rolling CCTV footage and the timing screens.
The accident happened right at the bottom of the camera's view, most likely it will have only picked up the marshals on the grass and smoke.

Matt you're almost entirely correct - We spotted it on the circuit CCTV after hearing via a colleagues team radio that there was a car in the wall and a sizeable fire and walked down to the booth (some considerable distance!) to explain to John what we could see and what (very little) we knew - He put me on air at that point - the other point was that it took a LONG time for the red flag to come out for that incident - certainly after I was on air - I'd estimate arouind 4-5 minutes - A worryingly long time in fact

[Aysedasi]

I actually sent a text to Paul about that accident - I was standing on the bank on the inside of the circuit at pit in - although I couldn't identify which car it was when I sent it. It was clear the commentators had little or nothing to work on......

[Marcel ten Caat]

And I walked from the booth to the scene of the crash...shot some images on my iPhone and returned to the booth to show the damage.