BBC F1 coverage far better then Sky

So I had a extremely busy Sunday as the Canadian GrandPrix was on telly. I watched the race live on Sky Sports F1HD. The only thing that I like about their coverage is the commentary team of Martin Brundle and David Croft. Everything else about their coverage in my opinion is terrible for a couple of reasons firstly and the main reason is Simon Lazenby who is the presenter of Sky's F1 coverage. Now I don't know what his background is in but I feel that he REALLY needs to brush up on his F1 history and he also needs to learn a lot more about the sport.

When Sky Sports F1HD interviewed 1978 F1 champion Mario Andretti, who has just become the official ambassador for the 2012 United State's GrandPrix in Texas he was just introduced as Mario Andretti, and it appeared that it was completely glossed over the fact that he was the champion in 1978 for Lotus.

Lazenby also asked the stupidest question in the world, Mario are you going to be at the GrandPrix in Texas? He's the circuit ambassador, of course he is going to be at the race, come on!!!!!!!!!

When you look at the BBC's coverage in comparison, it is far superior granted the BBC have been covering the sport for year's and it's the first year for SKY, but if you think of the amount of money that Sky are reportedly spending on their coverage of the sport it would be of better quality.

The BBC on the other hand did a fantastic job with their 'HIGHLIGHTS' coverage of the race with pitlane reporter Lee McKenzie taking the presenter reigns for the next few races as Jake is covering the Euros for BBC Sport. Lee was joined as usual by David Coulthard, there was no sign of EJ, however I assume that he will be back for the European GrandPrix next weekend. Lee is fantastic at doing to camera pieces and she is extremely knowledgeable about the sport and her and DC's conversations just flow and the banter back and forth between the two is great.

I love watching the BBC's coverage of F1 and that is not just because I've worked for the BBC. The BBC will show the next two race's in Europe, in Valencia and Britain live.