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Originally Posted by Daverb
Why
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- She has much more recent BTCC experience than Tim and Paul
- She's raced in multiple categories and can share some of that experience
- She's confident on camera and a good communicator (hence she's worked in F1s Paddock Club)
- She is younger than ITVs other broadcasters and being ITVs first regular woman pundit may help inspire girls watching the coverage (especially with a new audience on TikTok) to get involved in motorsport in any role, and is an additional role model to Louise Goodman
- If contracts are up at the end of the year for ITVs broadcast team (as Paul O'Neill suggested recently), then it's a good time for ITV to start looking to the future