I am desperately hoping you may be able to raise the following issue with those that count, despite it’s controversial nature.

I would like to register my strong disappointment at the unneccesarily rigorous way that the FOM chooses to pursue members of the F1 fan community who seek to watch historical footage of Grand Prix racing through video sharing sites such as YouTube. While I understand the logic in controlling the distribution of recent race vision, the removal of older telecasts is frustratingly short-sighted and appears to achieve nothing other than alienation of those who have highest level of passion for the sport.

Once again I find myself stunned at the archaic thinking by those who could harness the amazing technology available to reward those with an unquenchable thirst for this sport. It is the greatest of ironies that a sport that prides itself on a technological focus can be so trapped in an old-school approach.

Perhaps a day will soon dawn where this hopelessly outdated strategy will be consigned to the waste bin, and that the FOM will realise that the resources spent trying to remove twenty year old footage from the web is better spent delivering an improved product to the long suffering fans. Surely someone within the FOM, somewhere, can see the bigger picture.

Can you help?

Id like to ask if you have been a fan of the new regulations or if you think that they have done too much to change the cars.
I think they should have just brought in slick tyres and gotten rid of those extra wings all over the cars and thats all.

Nice to see you back on our TV’s (well your voice that is). Shame the BBC didn’t leave the tv comentry alone as you and Brundle came across so fluidly… something we AREN’T seeing at the moment.

Keep it up and all of you ITV F1 featues they are really though prevoking and always an excelent read whether before or after a race weekend.

Ed.

To improve overtaking you need slow corners onto long straights with slow, wide corners at the end. We always have passing at Bahrain, Shanghai etc

I’m a big fan of your blog – insightful, passionate and different from everything else online.

In the wake of all the public politics in F1 of late, I wonder if I could ask your thoughts about adjustable wings. There’s been a lot of talk of KERS, of slicks and diffusers, yet this was the technology that was meant to help drivers get closer to the car ahead this season and I wondered what the consensus is. Has it made any difference? What do the drivers think? And if there was one thing you could introduce / ban to encourage overtaking, what would it be?

Cheers,

Julian

Now fairs fair I have been fairly critical of your commentating in the past so I won’t be a hypocrite and claim to have always been a fan. However, since your departure from F1 commentary, and the BBC’s introduction of Legard it has been somewhat of an awakening for most people as to the reality of the job you were doing. Your passion for F1, and in particular British drivers and teams was beautiful – I’m especially reminded of JB’s win at Hungary (get in there!) and the wonderful line ‘the minute a hundred thousand local hearts sink in the grandstand’ as LW became champion – wonderful!! I wonder now why so many of us overlooked this at the time but then I guess you really don’t know what you’ve got till its gone…

Well I’ve joined the campaign and signed the petition now lets please replace the appalling JL before the end of the season, and get you back where you belong, going nuts as Jenson becomes 2009 champion (please, please!!)

If the BBC refuse to see sensehow about an indepedent JA commentary on-line? I think you’d get a lot of interest I really do.

Regards,

Pete