You're talking about a lot of people sitting at home watching you, and you don't want to be too exposed, but I think at the same time the audience are more forgiving than ever. I've got a couple of old outbuildings, basically an old apple store built in about , and quite damp and quite empty. The previous people that lived in the house used to go there and use it as a study or a little working space, so there's a little wood burner in there. And then I'm wearing an earpiece and this is the real challenge really: down the earpiece I'm hearing the VT that we're playing, so the stuff that you're seeing on the television, and also I'm hearing the pundits.
But at the same time, the director and producer and the PA, so another three people I'm having to listen to down there as well. So at times I'm hearing the actual programme itself, but then also up to seven people's voices. No matter how much we try and get the levels completely right, because they're all coming over the mobile phone network for about 50 per cent of the time, it just sounds like mush.
You can be flying solo to an extent. On Early Kick Off , how do you choose talking points? Normally there would be a week's worth of news to discuss. There's no news anymore. That must push creative thinking a little bit. Normally, we know that there's going to be enough news for us to be able to fill our show. And you're right, it does push you to creatively come up with other stuff. There's one [segment] that I'm really enjoying at the moment called Loft Raiders, which is where our former players go up into their loft and get down whatever they want and talk about it on the telly.
I've got some amazing stuff from Owen Hargreaves, who won two Champions Leagues, had an amazing career, but then his career was ended by injury and he struggled so much with that that he doesn't have anything in his house. Martin Keown, with one of his Arsenal shirts… Joe Cole with the very boots he wore on the day that England had been knocked out of the World Cup in Gelsenkirchen in Germany in , complete with mud from that pitch because the boots hadn't been touched since.
I love that thought. And then we've got the Two-Metre Peter Challenge, where people have got to make a statue the same size as Peter Crouch and use it to socially distance themselves. Every week we have a classic match on and we ask people to get in touch and share their thoughts on the game. I think that what we're all missing at the moment is not a dream finish from 35 yards out by Messi, but the chance to watch that moment in a pub with our mates, talk about it in person, talk about it on social media and then have a few drinks and sit with the people that we love and enjoy it.
Sport is going to be one of the single most important things once we start to emerge out of this crisis. I think it will look different; it will probably be behind closed doors for quite a long time.
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It's more interesting when it's not plain sailing for anyone. Hi Jake, Great blog! We were in Rupongi in Tokyo a day after the race and bumped into Martin Brundle in a restaurant in the night! He was his usual charming self and was happy to have a couple of pictures with us and chat for 5 mins. I said that we'll put his picture with the other celebs we met and that he'd be right up there with Timmy Mallet!!
That's your lot!! The 3 guys he was with thought it was highly amusing! If you could apologise to him and tell him thanks again and due to his constant pushing in in front of European reporters his picture has been promoted next to Peter Stringfellow! Maybe his results weren't in the same league as Lewis' but then the Sauber wasn't the car that McLaren was in That said I can't think of any rookie to have blown the field away the way Lewis did.
Comparing rookie season might make for an interesting filler piece at the start of next season Hi Jake Amusing blog as usual, how can someone so seemingly disorganised in the underpants department manage to hold it together for the whole show : I think you should have given Nico a harder time over the total evasion of your first question: Jake asks Nico a closed question, the only options to answer is 1.
Yes 2. Dont Know Nico Answers with: I didn't gain any advantage Hmmmm as someone mentioned earlier seventh to fourth is a bit of an advantage Then the stewards decide it's ok he couldn't see delta, what was it he said to the pit team The thing i have been wondering about the whole Nico thing is surely the pitwall and the guys in the back of the garage had the lap time delta from the telemetry, so wasn't the radio working at the time to tell Nico to slow down.
Sort of similar scenario in a way to a certain place change at the first race of the season. Hope it doesn't impact on the Championship title by season end to BrawnGP's detriment as if Nico is going there next year, there may be tears at bedtime. Other than that small hiccup I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Suzuka back on the calender, one of the more exciting and far less sanitised tracks. I really hope Abu Dabi can live up to the promise and not be a Singapore or Valencia. Keep up the good work and you will really enjoy Interlargos, watch out for the pickpockets outside the track and in town!
By the way didn't you have time to pop into the amazing department stores in Japan, you can spend ours just playing with the rather expensive big boy's toys while you are looking for new kecks : PS is it just me or are the smiley tags on your blog broke? Fantastic blog, Jake. Thanks too for nearly always managing to get an interview with Stefano Domenicali - now do us poor, sad Massa fans a favour and try and get the wee Brazilian himself for an interview in Interlagos, eh?
Cracking blog Jake and Happy Birthday for Wednesday. Maybe get DC and EJ to buy you some pants, eh? Another great Blog Jake, you are just showing us the best of what happens off the track. Maybe you should do the packing yourself Jake The race was boring Qualifying was exciting Sounds very nice. Due to an alarm failure, I missed the race live, and with the rest of the day been a motorsports festival across the board, I only got round to watching the re-run I recorded at 8 o'clock Sunday night.
The race on its own was worth a watch, but was a bit of an anti-climax after Qually, and the coverage was great as usual. The racing was mega, no nudging each other into the gravel, no controversy, just the 3 title contenders going at it wheel-to-wheel. Oh and add in the closest ever BTCC race finish too! I don't want to put a dampener on Abu Dhabi for you, but I think the whole thing's overrated.
The track may go under hotels and grandstand etc, but at the end of the day it's another Tilkedrome. Ok they're running it under lights, but this will back-fire because it won't look half as good as Singapore. If the title's settled in Brazil, it could be the dullest F1 season finale ever, it's a good move giving the last race back to Brazil in Setanta had the rights, they went bust, So Eurosport picked them up and made a half-hearted effort at the coverage.
It's just like screening the cc and cc races before Motogp, which the Beeb do anyway. Plus Crofty did a great job on the commentary on GP2 in , so you've got the right man for the job there already!
Very interesting blog, makes a nice change from "Button will still win" or "Button will choke" that seems to dominate these pages. Nice to just hear some stuff about how your weekend went in a great country. I'm sure there are pant shops in Osaka! And an F1 driver even a retired one getting excited about being on a bus?? MB has his adrenal glands wired backwards, maybe it's something about coming from Norfolk I live in Norfolk too, can I have a job?
I thought MB was a little techy with EJ in the forum. He justifiably takes a lot of pride in his driving achievements doesn't he - remembers his stats and all that - doesn't seem to like it when EJ is flippant about it. Now that the teams and the FIA have put down the handbags its good to see the commentary team picking up the slack.
Also - props to Ted Kravitz for getting that coverage of Rosberg being ferried into the lift by his team manager. Great stuff! Is there a special class in school? Oh Jake, yet again your blog had me crying with laughter 'Either my wife, Harriet, miscounted when helping me pack - or I've done my usual trick of managing to leave my personal belongings strewn across half the globe' Priceless!
Thank you for your insight to the other side of F1, on what you and your colleagues do and get up to. Your blogs are always such fun to read. Couple of things other people have brought up 13 alcoholicmonkey - I also have to agree with him about both occasions and like him, there is no way I could manage your job, but if no one ever says anything maybe it's something you woludn't pick up on yourself 40 smifffies - I am finding that the BBC web site isn't updated often enough with relivant info.
Over a race weekend I tend to keep upto dated with what is going on, by going onto twitter and seeing what you guys have written, as it seems to be a lot more acurate and upto date. I don't think I can take much more of this!!!!!
Can't wait to see you all again in 2 weeks time Amanda x. Coverage was fantastic as usual Mr Jake Michael was leading for three quarters of the race too, gutted! Anyway, loved it there and appears you did too. Mate, you've seriously built a name and character for yourself this season which has been fantastic to see. Especially with your blogs You've really nailed it insofar as coming across as a normal bloke who's happened into a job of dreams - it works very well indeed.
You dont need me to tell you, but keep it up hey! It's even got to the point whereby you make a person feel like he know's you personally, with your blogs and your twitter updates, it's fantastic and works really well. Anyway, I'm waffling. Keep well and I'm very much looking forward to JB as Champion I've been wanting this since he first signed with Williams.
Ha ha, lol Jake,I can't wait to see what you guys think of Abu Dhabi. I like that E J and M B just tell it how they think it is to them.
Thanks for another awesome blog Good or bad, funny. I like you put everything into your blog.. You should have a name tag an return address in you items, ssee how many lost items get back to you Kidding Jake.
This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Im a formula 1 novice but felt that the crash with 10 laps to go cost Jenson dear in Japan. He had closed a 3 second gap on his brawn team mate and i think would have taken him-Rosberg was still to pit and i feel without the crash Button would have finished 6th rosberg 7th and bara 8th.
As Mr Brawn said if he gets qualifying right he should wrap it up over the 2 races. The grid and penalties was far too confusing, time F1 and FIA sorted something simpler for people to understand. Keep up the good work. As unacustomed as I am to praise for others I must say that your banter-esque relationship with both DC and EJ are fast becoming the best thing about the coverage. The BBC really landed on it's feet with you Jake - your insightful, intelligent interviewing technique has been a revalation to the F1 coverage.
Long hail King Jake! Jake, You have won us over. I was very Skeptical when I first saw you covering F DC and EJ initial confrontations were not that great and a bit childish but you seem to have reined them in and I enjoy the rapport between you three. EJ and DC even apologise to each other when they get things wrong.
Great coverage of F1! You kept asking Bernie tough questions and did not back down or let him side step your questions until EJ changed the topic. Hi Jake, New to blogs and yours, but searched it out as I wanted to comment and ask a question re Vettel. Whilst he is now bigging up his chances to lift the championship, it all seems to have gone quiet over the engine limit issue.
Is it the case, that Vettel has 2 used engines for the last races to use without penalty or must he take a new engine and endure a 10 grid place either at Brazil or Abu Dhabi? If that's 1 or 20 more than the guy in second place doesn't really matter, does it? I think Jenson Button would probably have liked to swap the 2 halves of the season around and be finishing on a huge high but it's only natural that as time went on other teams overcame their engineering issues and caught up with the Brawns.
Just look at Lewis!! I do have one question Jake - what do you think is the problem with the Brawns getting it together in qualifying? More notably, Jenson? As a few people have said here, his times mid race in Japan proved that he's not losing his ability by any stretch of the imiaginiation it just seems to take them a while to have everything click together.
Do you think this is where the pressure is really on or is it genuinely upgrade issues? And I can answer your pants mystery I must say you are doing a grand job.
The coverage of the F1 scene is tremendous. What a pleasure it is to watch the events uninterupted without adverts. I think the teams deliberately start engines when you three start talking or when you do interviews, as for it happen every time is too much like coincidence. Thanks again for a great programme.
Hey Jake, Many thanks for yet another illuminating, engaging and entertaining blog! I'm not surprised people got up at 5am in the UK, it had the makings of a fascinating race. Being in Canada it was a little more reasonable to stay up until 3am Unfortunately we only get you, DC and EJ in snippets at the end of the race.
Considering that later on Sundays TSN usually gives over 5 hours to dull-as-ditchwater, roundy roundy racing, why they literally only show the race and podium ceremony for F1 is beyond me. No analysis, no background, no chewing the fat after the fact.
When I've caught your shows in the UK I have been very impressed, so go take over the world! Two things, First regarding the stewards. Correct me if I am wrong but when Raikkonen won his championship in the last race by 1 point over Hamilton there was a stewards enquiry after the race into fuel irregularities in two other teams.
The stewards found that there was a case to answer yet took no action. If they had, Hamilton would have been promoted 2 places, gained extra points and won the championship instead of Raikkonen. I think we have witnessed in Japan yet another example of the stewards makeing decisions and disregarding the evidence before them. Yes it is better to see the championships won on the track and not in a meeting afterwards, however rules are there for a reason.
Second, regarding the Driver championship. Both Vettel and Barrichello need to not only beat Button but also the rest of a very stong field in order to get the points that they need. Button on the other hand meerly has to get a few points to stay ahead. As pointed out by Martin Brundle, when Raikkonen beat Hamilton in , there were no other strong cars in the field, this year is a totally different scenario.
Even if Button has another DNF I would be surprised if it stops him getting the championship that he thoroughly deserves. Then next year he can give it back to Hamilton! Another excellent, entertaining blog, Jake. If you want to drop in to NY on the way to Brazil, I can take you pants shopping! Surely you could have bought some from a vending machine in Japan, I seem to remember they cater to all tastes.
As a pre-F1, long-term Jenson fan, I'm getting kind of fed-up with the talk that Vettel has "blown the championship wide open", and RBR's - somewhat delusional - insistence that they can still take both titles.
Now, I'm prepared to be wrong here, but I really don't see them scoring the two 's they need at Brazil and Abu Dhabi with the Brawn's not picking up the one point they need. So, that's the WCC sorted.
Oh, and let's not forget that he hasn't got any fresh engines left. Really unlikely. RB will freeze as he usually does in front of his home crowd, and JB will pick up at least a handful of points, although I think if it all comes together for him he's got a good chance of getting on the podium. Job done. I would hate for Jenson to get pipped at the post as he's had a stellar season. Okay, from Silverstone on it hasn't been too pretty but who would have predicted at any point up until Turkey that he'd win 6 out of 7?
After every race he won people would say it would be the last, and it wasn't. I would really love him to have a strong finish to the WDC, but if he limps towards it I won't be complaining. So I will continue biting my nails and humming quietly to myself in corners for another week and a bit, until you all hit Brazil. If and when JB takes the title, I promise to try to calm myself long enough to e-mail the forum and let you know how hysterically happy I am!
Safe travels, Jake, and watch your remaining possessions like a hawk in Sao Paulo! Jake Love the old socks and kecks in the shoes gag Reminds me of a chief officer that I saied with once who used to have one suitcase to last him a 4 month trip, inside was an accordion, and inside that was stuffed all his clothes including socks and kecks to last him for the full 4 months Must echo all the positive comments that have been made about the standard of coverage by the Beeb this year - fantastic coverage on race day by all concerned but not forgetting the guys who do the quali day Crofty and Davidson etc etc etc Will there be an award for you all at this years Sports Personality of the Year awards???
You guys deserve it and I'm sure that DC and EJ would find space for it amongst the plethora of silverware etc that they have. Looking forward to Brazil and seeing how far awy DC stands from you if you dont find a clean pair in the interim period btw he should have a spare pair that came with the cape he wore over his overalls at a certain podium not so long a go Have really enjoyed the bbc coverage this weekend and all season long but it is coming to the end of the season and time to start taking a genuine look at comentary team in preparation for next year.
The blog comments for the first few races were full of comments about JL and if I'm being honest he has improved, but just flicking through the comments on this blog, all you see are comments about how good the 5 Live comentary has been.
Croft and Davidson seem relaxed and full of enthusiasm. I'm delighted for Anthony if he has a drive for next year, but it will be a pity not to hear his insights. Definitely time for Croft to move in with Brundle on the TV com.
I'm not that struck on David Croft. Martin and Jonathan have clearly gelled better as a team better of late. My pet hate is Eddie Jordan who just says a load of rubbish half the time. Quick question for you, Jake! In your can of coffee photo, was that DC sleeping in the background? Still, great blog as always! Keep it up and let's hopefully have a double celebration for Brawn and Jenson Button wrapping up their respective titles in Brazil! Jake, In the land that provides absolutely everything you should have been aware of underwear vending machines Nice one as always Jake, Forget the pants try commando style, might be a relief in those hot places your going to.
Great blog Jake, I'm really enjoying your coverage this year, although I'm knackered this week with the 5am starts! I totally agree with JB has had a great season and although he hasn't matched the highs of the early season, he's been consistent and brings the car home.
Hi there jake. I was a bit worried when bbc got the contract again.
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