So with the announcement yesterday that Jake Humphrey is leaving the BBC at the end of the F1 season the big question on every BBC F1 fan is who will replace him as the host of the station's coverage? This year, the Beeb are showing ten races live and it is not yet clear what form their coverage will take next season.
For this season James Allen joined the BBC's 5 Live F1 coverage as lead commentator taking over from David Croft with Jenny Goew taking over as pitlane reporter on Friday's replacing Natalie Pickham. Ben Edwards took over from Martin Brundle.
With the Beeb looking to cut costs, it would make no sense what so ever for them to bring in an outsider to replace Jake Humphrey particularly as Lee has the experience and critically the knowledge of Formula One and is more then capable to take the reigns of the broadcasters F1 coverage having done so on an number of occasions.
The BBC wouldn't have to replace Lee in the pitlane as they already have Gary Anderson working alongside her in the pitlane and that is a position that Jenny Goew could take up. Le is very known and very highly regarded in the F1 paddock as she also represents a number of driver's outside the sport in a PR capacity.
She is the ideal candidate to take over from Jake who it is rumored had a falling out with his BBC bosses. The report came about after it emerged that his tweets which were a regularly feature on the BBC'S F1 website disappeared shortly after the announcement was made. It is not yet known what Eddie Jordan and David Coulthard's plans are for next season however I am sure that we shall find out soon enough.
Jake has four LIVE races left with the BBC starting with this weekend's Singapore GrandPrix and I firmly believe that he will go out on a massive high after a fantastic career at the BBC and at the helm of BBC's F1 coverage.
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