Whenever a driver lost a place David Croft described them as being “caught napping” (even when, as with Grosjean at the start, they obviously weren’t).

The graphics team put up the wrong race results.

And Charlie was in ghastly form. She was trying to get Pantano and Maldonado to commentate on video footage of Grosjean and Senna! After several events she still looks terrified to be in front of the cameras and keeps repeating everything she says. It was painful to watch this afternoon.

Scott Woodwiss already does live commenting for GP2, but it’s Sidepodcast-style blog comments rather than CoverItLive.

I can’t compare ITV’s coverage to Eurosport’s — never seen it, so I’ll take your word for it that ITV is better. Certainly the decision to have David Croft in the commentary box was a good one.

I wonder if ITV will show the British GP2 races on ITV1. That would be good.

Keith – we’ve been getting our IndyCar fix from streaming video on the website and timing sheets. Not ideal, but better than nothing.

The BTCC coverage is much better than it was.

But there is one downside – Sky are hardly showing any of the Indy Car series live, which is hugely disappointing as the series has just re-united. Instead we get NASCAR which is just rubbish. If Sky aren’t going to show Indy live they should let Eurosport, Motors TV or ITV4 pick it up.

Also, ITV have out of nowhere started doing really comprehensive streaming video of F1 on their website, so now every last moment of practice as well as qualifying and the race is available to diehards.

If you’re taking to A1GP then it might be worth keeping an eye out for the August test at Silverstone. Don’t know whether a visit is practical (it’s on a weekday) but last year they let the punters in for free to watch the whole event. Even parking was free and you could potter around the track practically without restriction. We’ll certainly go again if they repeat that this year.

Of course, this being Silverstone, your waterproofs and a packed lunch are highly advisable…