There’s not much to say about the 2006 British Grand Prix. Fernando Alonso won from pole. Mark Webber, Ralf Schumacher, and Scott Speed all exited in a first lap incident. Jenson Button’s car exploded under him. Other than that, it was a pretty boring race.
Of course, there could have been a little more excitement had it not been for the typically shoddy commentary from Ralph Sheheen and Derek Daly. A tip, Derek: blocking is illegal in Formula One. You’re allowed to make one move to block, and if you make another, you get penalized. Stop going on about how blocking is ruining Formula One. Jesus.
And for the love of God would someone at CBS take away Daly’s magic pen? I don’t need to be shown where the left-side front tire is. Anybody with an IQ over 75 can figure that one out for themselves. I guess that American stations are used to televising NASCAR and the 75+ IQ demographic isn’t their target audience, but still.
How about telling us in and out laptimes so that we might have some kind of inkling where drivers are going to come out? When Michael Schumacher was in on his final pitstop it would have been really nice to know what the differential was between him and Kimi Raikkonen, but no, we get some rabble about the Ferrari pit crew. Part of F1 commentary is commentating on what you don’t see on the screen. Tell us what we can’t figure out for ourselves!
One small consolation is that this is the last race this season that will be covered by CBS.
The next race up is the 2006 Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, Quebec. I won’t be watching this one on TV because I’ll be at the race. Grandstand 12, right at the Senna Corner, we’ll be there. Hope it’s a good one!
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