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By Edd Straw Tuesday, February 24th 2009, 17:21 GMT
The BBC is keen to build interest in all the drivers on the grid, not only reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton, when it broadcasts its first live Formula One race from Australia next month.
Mark Wilkin, producer of BBC's TV and online coverage, says that the build-up to both qualifying and the race will give them the opportunity to put the spotlight on the other drivers.
"During that hour of build-up time on the Saturday and Sundays, the last half-hour before the race is sacrosanct and it's going to be live, or very nearly live," said Wilkin. "We will be having all the build up you would expect and that will include some grid walks from Martin Brundle.
"We've also got and hour-and-a-half of feature material to do on Saturday before qualifying and before the pitlane opens on Sunday. It's into that period that we want to put the personality pieces.
"We want to personalise these guys because we don't know who they are. The British public knows who Lewis Hamilton is now, but there are 17 other drivers that we need to get to know as well."
Wilkin also believes that the coverage must strike the right note in informing the viewership about what is a highly complex and technical sport.
"We need to de-mystify F1 as well," he said. "There's a lot of jargon and we take a lot of assumed knowledge. If we don't watch out, we can switch people off. So there will be plenty of those stories, as well as track guides, some history and some perspective as well."
The BBC is also planning to integrate some 3D graphical devices during its extensive post-race analysis, which will be accessible through the "red button" on digital TV.
I don't know whether that means I'll be getting DC and EI or not. Until now, here I get the races on SPEED, with SPEED announcers(Varsha, Hobbs, Matchett) and on TSN(which is a Canadian version of ESPN) who simply showed us the ITV feed, so it was JA and MB during the race but the TSN guys(Vic Crouter with Peter Windsor on the grid and in the podium conference) during the grid wait and after the chequered flag.
I'm confused now. Not living in Britain and not getting any British channels, I don't know what I'll get. If ITV no longer has it, as I understand, and BBC does, then will TSN show the BBC feed? One assumes they will. I think I can get some BBC channel(s) like their 24h news and BBC kids but I'm not sure of something that shows races. What are JA and MB doing?
BBC confirm return of The Chain
By Edd Straw Wednesday, February 25th 2009, 11:16 GMT
The BBC has confirmed that it will use the iconic Fleetwood Mac song The Chain as the theme for its Formula One coverage this year.
Since the BBC announced last March that the sport would be returning to its schedule for this year, fans have been calling for the song, recorded in 1976, to make a return. At yesterday's media launch of the corporation's F1 coverage, the BBC revealed that it had opted to revive the iconic theme.
"There has been one enormous issue on all the message boards and that was the question of what music we are going to use," said a BBC spokesman. "Whether it's a surprise or not, we'll leave for you to decide."
The revealing of The Chain drew applause from legendary commentator Murray Walker, who was attending the launch and will play a part in the BBC's coverage.
Yes!
I don't know the song, but the best tune is MotoGP tune.
Hysteria - Muse
Amazing.
I have heard a lot of hype from it so am looking forward to it.
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