Despite long being my favourite member of the Sky team, Ted has become a bit of an arse lately. He made the absolutely bizarre accusation of placing the blame for Hamilton's unsafe release at Grosjean who he said was "barrelling down the pit lane".. at the 62mph speed limit denoted by the rules I might add.
He then (not for the first time this season) presented a misquote to an interviewee to get a reaction, except Horner called him out saying he "
kept trying to wind things up". The Notebook later featured his reoccurring conspiracy theory that Mercedes favour a German winning in a German car, a theory he put to James Allen only for James to quash it just as the Sky team did at Monaco.
Perhaps the most frustrating instance was his repeated assertion throughout the latter stages of the Austrian GP that Mercedes should tell Rosberg to let Hamilton by because it wasn't fair on Lewis that Nico got the undercut, something he later pressed Toto on only to be shot down with "
You're getting things wrong here Ted".
As much as I love Ted and while he's still up there with Brundle and Davidson on input, I feel like he's slowly becoming a caricature of himself and maybe needs to rein it in a bit on the theories and refocus on the technical aspects of the sport which are getting left behind/completely absent. The qualifying Notebook's still top notch mind, shame it's up against the clock.
Once again the addition of Anthony and the absence of Johnny have led to a noticeable improvement in the coverage this weekend but by and large the coverage feels increasingly stale as time progress. Unfortunately I get the impression Sky have no intention of changing how they're doing things which would compare suitably with their channel; unimaginative, repetitive, full of filler, lacking in investment and looking a pale shadow of it's promise in 2012.
I'll add to the positive comments on Alex and Davide on GP2 commentary. Buxton was always going to be a hard act to follow but Alex has more than filled the void and Davide is enthusiastic and knowledgable in equal measure, a good pairing befitting of the great racing in the series this season.