Comments on: Off Topic: Get Legard off BBC F1 team

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:20:07 +0000

Legard is still ruining the F1 for me, I want to hear Martin’s insight but the endless, pointless and usually inaccurate waffle from Legard is awful and doing my head in!

If he says once more “from” when listing the running order (Red Bull from McLaren from Ferrari …..) I will scream.

Given how much the fans disliked his style in his first season, what on earth were the Beeb thinking in reemploying him for this year??

By: Shane Lucas

Shane Lucas — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:11:42 +0000

Jonathan Legard is very talented. I like him as the commentator and I think he should stay. The only thing I don’t like is that it seems sometimes that he doesn’t know what to say and will say something stupid. Last year at monaco he said (about Rubens) ‘this is very much a, a pension year’ which wound me up so much because rubens is talented, he was at a team capable of winning.

By: jim simpson

jim simpson — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:34:30 +0000

need Legard gone, someone better than Allen to replace him though, a race caller who can put some of the excitement of being there that’s lost from the TV coverage. We had an english guy commentate on one of our overseas V8 Supercar races last year, his name was David Addison and his input contributed to the best V8 coverage I have seen.

By: Jonathan Barcliff

Jonathan Barcliff — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:14:05 +0000

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By: Hugo Acland

Hugo Acland — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:59:21 +0000

Excellent post. If you need to listen to BBC Radio on the iPhone – I strongly recommend BBC Radio iPhone Streams – it is easily the quickest and most reliable way to listen to BBC Radio on the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and it’s free at BBCStreams.com.

By: tomacintosh

tomacintosh — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:36:29 +0000

Yes he’s still on there, and still as crap as ever. I wonder if BBC will consider James Allen for next season? Here’s hoping

By: John Stanley-Smith

John Stanley-Smith — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:06:07 +0000

Is Jonathan Legard still commentating on BBC1 F1 races? His irrelevant and over-obvious commentary has long ago driven me to use the radio 5 live commentary. It is a shame because I do enjoy Martin’s incisive driver’s view comments which add considerably to the viewing experience.

By: tomacintosh

tomacintosh — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:59:23 +0000

Imo Allen was a far better commentator than Legard. He had interesting facts to talk about, he gelled really well with Brundle, and made boring races seem more lively. You don’t win an award for Grand Prix commentating very often, but they did

By: moi

moi — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:03:40 +0000

This petition will not run very fast because the focus is wrong.
A plea to replace one rubbish commentator with another (proven) rubbish commentator is absurd.

The idea that replacing Allen should be a question of pressure is equally ridiculous.

James had the advantage of being a genuine F1 journalist but that made him no better than Legard as a commentator.

By: Steve Robertson

Steve Robertson — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:19:25 +0000

Strange thing is that Murray Walker (or someone pretending to be?) tweeted the following last night:-

“BBC asked me to return to the commentary box. Legard’s let the pressure of replacing James Allen get to him. Send your support to Jonathan!”

Teken from http://twitter.com/Murray_Walker