Originally Posted by TheSubaru2012:
“You'll be surprised to say by this comment though because C4 is not the first lot to try a 3 man commentary out of the UK broadcasters, BBC Radio 5 Live have done a 3 man commentary team for some races including Russia and this race. Russia had Nichols, Gallagher and Clarkson in the box whilst today had Nichols, McNish and Clarkson in the commentary box.”
“You'll be surprised to say by this comment though because C4 is not the first lot to try a 3 man commentary out of the UK broadcasters, BBC Radio 5 Live have done a 3 man commentary team for some races including Russia and this race. Russia had Nichols, Gallagher and Clarkson in the box whilst today had Nichols, McNish and Clarkson in the commentary box.”
BBC used a 3-man commentary team as far back as the mid-90s, when Martin Brundle was not driving in some races (he shared a Ligier seat with Aguri Suzuki) he joined Murray and Jonathan Palmer in the box, and also for the final race of that year in Adelaide Murray and Jonathan were joined by Alan Jones. In fact, I seem to recall they had 3 commentators on occasions as far back as the late 70s/early 80s, as James Hunt and Jackie Stewart got embroiled in an argument mid-commentary alongside Murray at a race in Britain.
Then back in 2005, the BAR team were banned from a couple of Grands Prix for a technical infringement, so Jenson Button joined James Allen and Martin on commentary for ITV.
There are probably other examples I've forgotten about, but it's certainly not that BBC 5 Live are blazing a trail.




