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[morninggents]

I agree with earlier comments about Lee McKenzie. A class presenter. Better than most of her Ch 4 colleagues. She, DC, Mark Webber and Billy Whizz make a great team.

[S griffin]

I agree Lee is a class act. She's great at presenting and not just F1 or motorsport in general. She's very good presenting the rugby too. She certainly deserves a bigger role

[Tourer]

IMHO Harry Benjamin was a VAST improvement over Croft but like nearly all commentators, he did have the odd annoying trait. The probability percentage of a SC is regularly referred to at other Grands Prix but I'm struggling to remember if they've also said 100% or left it at "highly likely" or something like that.

Croft genuinely spoils the experience for me but I reckon if 20 of us were lined up and asked for the key aspects of a perfect commentator, I'm tipping that there wouldn't be even 2 identical lists.

[Skam85]

I was ambivalent to Harry Benjamin. He wasn't fantastic, wasn't horrible. It didn't add or detract from my F1 experience.

I'm sure he was massively nervous for his first proper F1 race, and will find a rhythm in future.

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by Skam85

I'm sure he was massively nervous for his first proper F1 race, and will find a rhythm in future.

You know what, I retract some of my previous statement. Because this is totally fair. Whilst he is not new to commentating, the gap in viewership numbers between anything else and F1 is crazy.

[chunterer]

Listening to Jacques and litle Brundle sounding off to.each other in F2 qualy yesterday was like a battle of the cheesiest cliches delivered as loudly and as slowly as possible.

I think I an going to have to fimd someway of picking up trackside racing sounds minus the comms teams from mow on!

[Greem]

I quite like Alex Brundle's commentary/punditry style. He always sounds like he's having a laugh and has his tongue firmly in his cheek.

He does crowbar the gags in fairly forcefully though. I wonder where that comes from...?

[ChrisA]

The Chuckle Brothers are back on Ch4. No Lee unfortunately.

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by ChrisA

The Chuckle Brothers are back on Ch4. No Lee unfortunately.

Disappointing.....

[LC2guy]

Continually impressed with Naomi Schiff, great alongside Button & Brundle. Lazenby can be a bit terse, but the rest more than compensate. With the added pressure of being live with no ( C4 ) chance to edit prior to highlights, i'm happy with the coverage.

[Alan52]

I know it is their job but Croft and Brundle continually pushing strategies that were never going to happen was annoying.
Their repeated suggestion that Piastri should consider pitting out of 2nd was beyond bizarre unless they were thinking of ways Lando could get a podium.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by Alan52

I know it is their job but Croft and Brundle continually pushing strategies that were never going to happen was annoying.
Their repeated suggestion that Piastri should consider pitting out of 2nd was beyond bizarre unless they were thinking of ways Lando could get a podium.

It was bizarre unless they were thinking of ways to spice up the commentary, in what was a dull, processional race.

[flatlandsman]

It is races like this when I have plenty of sympathy for commentators, and they are not that uncommon, when very little is going on. I would imagine producers are very aware of this too and endlessly pushing stats and ideas to THE MOUTH. I very much doubt he knows this stuff from knowledge as he seems utterly unaware of anything that happened before he was involved in F1.

[Peter Mallett]

1982 Monaco,

Originally Posted by James Hunt on BBC

''We've got this amazing situation, we're all sitting by the start and finish line waiting for a winner to come past and we're not getting one''

Even when the race was processional, we had lack of reliability to spice things up. The current cars are not only too big, they are too reliable. Add to that the ability for teams to know when the stops will take place due to the lack of tyre variation and its no surprise that Monaco has the potential to be stiflingly tedious. That said Maimi, Suadi and the rest of them haven't set the pulses racing this year. Even Lando's win was relatively predictable.