Brits on Pole

The BBC has announced how it plans to cover MotoGP now its contract has been extended - can we glean any hints from this as to what it’s got in mind for F1?

It’s here - the British Grand Prix and the highlight of the Formula One season. It’s also the one day of the year when the spotlight is on Lewis Hamilton as never before.

Whoops - Lewis Hamilton wasn’t the only one with a red face in the aftermath of the Canadian Grand Prix this morning. Martin Brundle is is trouble for using the distinctly un-PC term ‘pikeys’ to describe the people repairing the damaged track surface.

Over at ITV F1.com it’s Martin Brundle’s turn to answer viewers’ questions. And this week brings a particularly interesting batch as the veteran F1 racer has just taken to the track for the first time in seven years to compete against his son in the open-wheel Formula Palmer Audi series.

If you’d like to know why we think the BBC should axe David Croft and Maurice Hamilton in 2009, sign up some new blood and, yes, even resist the temptation to bring back The Chain, then get yourselves along to the Vee8 blog, where we’ve written a guest post.

Here’s a story that we’ve had earmarked for a while - the news that Martin Brundle has made his first return to competitive track racing since he drove for Bentley in the Le Mans 24 Hours event in 2001.

On the surface it looks like more of the same - Ferrari’s Felipe Massa on pole for the third year running and seemingly on his way to another big stack of points for Ferrari. But look a little deeper and this has the potential to be a really interesting race.

There’s an interesting analysis by Martin Brundle on the ITV F1 website, covering what he thinks of the season so far - and what he thinks might be the hot prospects for the next few races.

Wind is already scouring the Sakhir circuit in preparation for the third race in the 2008 Formula One World Championship. We can’t quite promise to report on the progress of every last grain of sand - but we’ll be here for the next two and a half hours, live blogging the race.

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