SHUT IT LEWIS (ITV F1)

Member Name: leeanne160480

Product:	ITV F1
Date:	11/05/09 (33 review reads)
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Formula 1 came back to BBC1 this year, and I think it was for the better. My husband loves F1 and I have to say, I quite enjoy to watch it as well. Although I feel I can write about this sport, I perhaps don't know as much as what he does, but I will give it a shot.

Formula One is a motor sport. There are different races around the world, and these are dotted around the sporting calander of March-October. there were 18 races last year, and I know there are a few new track additions this year, so unsure of the schedule for this year. It is normally on the website www.bbc.co.uk/formulaone.

The race is narrated by a couple of commentators. When it was on ITV it was Martin Brundle that done it. Not sure who the new guy is, but he doesn't do as good a job I think. David Coultard presents as well. he was a formula One driver until he retired last year and I think he tells it like it is.

The sport is made up of so many teams, and each team has 2 drivers in it. There is the famous teams such as Williams, Honda, ferrari and so on, and interestigly enough a new team came along called Brawn. this was set up by a guy who used to work with the Ferrari team, called Ross Brawn, and the funding was put up by Richard branson, so the only logo on the car is Virgin. This team have done exceptionally well so far, and have nearly won every race. The driver of the moment just now is called Jenson Button. He has been driving in Formula One for years, and had only managed 1 win before. He used to drive for Honda.

The podium is for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. At the end of the season the driver with the most amount of points wins the drivers championship, and the car wins the constructures championship. You don't just get points for podium wins, I think you can get points all the way back to 8th place.

the great point about being back on BBC1 is that there isn't any adverts. the race is always shown live, at local time, so it can be on at 4am, or perhaps 5pm our time. There is a highlight show at night as well, but that is just the action condensed into a smaller schedule slot. So althouh on ITv it was live, when it went to a break (and there was loads of them, probably for sponsership and so on) if there was a crash or something, then you missed it live.

One of the famous drivers was Michael Schumacher. I thought he was good and he won a lot. My grand dad hated him and thought he was arrogant (he's still never forgiven the Germans though!) He thought that Michael should have given up, as he was always winning, but it was his choice. Michael left the sport at the end of 2007, after having enough, and I think he proved his point anyway. In 2008 we got another person who has become quite famous called Lewis Hamilton. Lewis is from England and went on nearly to win the drivers championship the first year he entered, but was narrowly pipped to the post by someone else. he seemed a good driver, humble and down to earth. His dad came along to all the races and supported him. his dad seeningly gave up a lot as lewis was growing up to get him onto the Formula One circut. He hasn't done that well since 2007 and to be honest he is starting to annoy me. he is constantly critasising his car. Fair enough the car could have something to do with things, but if I was his sponcer I would tell him to stop slagging them off. As far as I can tell he doesn't like to lose, but i'm sure of the 16 drivers that take part in the race, they all want to win.

Perhaps I could be sexist and say this is more for men, but I enjoy to watch it now and again, and fair enough a race could last for over 2 hours, but it is alright, especially when the race is a challenge!

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