Just in case anyone is recording it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STUPID ME. It's always on BBC2!!!!! Saw Grand Prix wasn't being recorded and panicked. Sorry
OOps. You are right. I just looked at guide and thought that the program called Grand Prix was not being recorded. I now realise that Grand Prix is not the F1 race!! Stupid me!!!!!!! Mods can you remove this thread?
The movie Grand Prix is actually quite good and worth watch or recording. The race highlights are on bbc2 at 7.00 pm
Is that the one from the 60's with James Garner (who I believe died today? ) in it, or a more recent film? If it's the 60's one, I'd stick in a recommendation for it too, it's fairly watchable, if not on the same level as the more recent Senna and Rush films/documentaries. Nah, I'll just mess with the title
Thanks for the warning, watching it right now, defo worth a watch so you can see what Monaco was like as a race track before it turned into a parade ground. Just looked up some stuff on IMDB 10 of the 32 hired race drivers who took part died in racing incidents within ten years of filming. James Garner did all his own driving and during breaks in filming mini races were held with Garner tying or beating the hired race drivers.
Suzy Perry really is an appalling presenter. Can't even say the bbc wanted a bit of eye candy as a presenter, as she's not even that.
She's as bad as Jake Humphrey, they are both awful. In fact, most of the BBC team are bad, just like Sky's are.
they could sack everyone then and have his clones do everything, then he could continually interupt himself.
Murray was so mega he could already interrupt himself, and quite regularly did. "And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself" He made F1 exciting even when the racing was as dull as dishwater and I swear his commentary was part of what made the sport exciting as a kid. He's a legend in my book! "Fire! Fire! Diniz in the oven"
I think the Walker/Hunt partnership was probably the best commentating partnership ever. After 'excuse me while I interupt myself' my fave is "mon auto est finis" when Phillip Streiffs car died in Monaco, it was such a typically English accentuation I just groaned.
*laughs* Hunt and Walker were really quite contrasting characters, but somehow they just worked. I doubt anyone would have the balls to put a James Hunt in the commentary box these days. It's all far too fluffy.
