BTCC Tim Harvey

[Wendy Wool]

Has Tim finished with commentating on ITV4?
Without doubt he is one of the best in the business, hopefully he will be back.

[Greem]

He's racing in the British GT Championship in a Porsche 997 GT3. Some of the dates clash with the BTCC.

[mattt]

He was racing in the British GT races instead of commentating. he will also miss the other BTCC meeting that clashes with the BGT meeting

Also missing Croft according to another thread

[rallycrosscraig]

Originally Posted by Wendy Wool

Has Tim finished with commentating on ITV4?
Without doubt he is one of the best in the business, hopefully he will be back.

The ITV4 coverage at the last meeting really missed having Tim' on the commentary team, the program was no where near as good as usual without his experience/enthusiasm.

[Craner Curves]

I'd argue with that. I thought it was better. He proves the point that just because you took part in and were reasonably good at a sport, you don't necessarily make a good pundit. Mark Blundell anyone?

[awrb]

I think Harvey is fantastic, and i really missed him last time out. You're right Craner, some people just don't make the transition from racing to pundit very well (Blundell, as you said) but Tim is always enthusiastic and seems to describe what the drivers do very well. Like the Jackson-Collard incident at Oulton, Moody and Hill just described what happened, but it took until Steve Ryder and Paul O'Neill were talking before anyone analysed what happened and pointed out who was to blame. If Harvey was there he'd have analysed that as soon as it happened and I really missed that throughout the weekend.

Not that there's anything wrong with Simon Hill, but you need someone pretty good alongside Toby Moody to stop me smashing my TV screen!

[vintage]

Yes we miss Tim he knows what he is talking about. But will somebody tell the new commentators that when at Oulton Park Knicker Brook is Knicker Brook not Hislops. Hislops is only for bikes.

[Greem]

It should be obvious why that mistake got made so much, shouldn't it?

[chunder]

Moody is fine for bikes, but he needs to stop bloody shouting and getting pathetically iover excited over nothing

It kind of works on bikes, but not in this stuff.

he does it wirth everything though so must be some kind of selling point! (not)

[Craner Curves]

I'm sure at one point he called Clay Hill "City Hall".

Moody's not the man for the job, I'd have preferred somebody like David Addison.

[safc_fan89]

Don't understand the fuss about Toby Moody, I really can't stand him. His commentary is forced and annoying. Couple that with Simon Hill and it's a complete disaster.

[Ghirlracer]

I tried to give Moody a fair chance but he's grated on me from the start, can't even put my finger on it, but his tone of voice or something like that just jars on me. I used to think of Harvey as the weaker link in the commentary team, when he was with Ben Edwards, but now you see such a huge difference when he's gone, no disrespect to Simon Hill but Harvey works much better with Moody in my mind. Would rather see it as Harvey and someone else though, tbh, I'm sure Moody is great at bikes but I'm not a big fan of him for BTCC.

[Beetle]

Originally Posted by safc_fan89

Don't understand the fuss about Toby Moody, I really can't stand him. His commentary is forced and annoying. Couple that with Simon Hill and it's a complete disaster.

Originally Posted by Ghirlracer

I tried to give Moody a fair chance but he's grated on me from the start, can't even put my finger on it, but his tone of voice or something like that just jars on me. I used to think of Harvey as the weaker link in the commentary team, when he was with Ben Edwards, but now you see such a huge difference when he's gone, no disrespect to Simon Hill but Harvey works much better with Moody in my mind. Would rather see it as Harvey and someone else though, tbh, I'm sure Moody is great at bikes but I'm not a big fan of him for BTCC.

Ghirlracer, I think safc_fan89 nailed it. Mr. Moody just seems to force his excitement too much. His voice almost sounds patronizing in a way, as though he is trying to read you a bedtime story. He just has this way of getting on your nerves? I feel too lazy to Google this, but why did Ben Edwards leave?

Also, where's a link to the full Oulton Park races that I can watch in the USA?

[Craner Curves]

Originally Posted by Beetle

I feel too lazy to Google this, but why did Ben Edwards leave?

http://bit.ly/MPDuDn

Moody was bloody awful yesterday. Is he as bad as this on bikes?

[graham bahr]

Originally Posted by Craner Curves

http://bit.ly/MPDuDn

Moody was bloody awful yesterday. Is he as bad as this on bikes?

moody and julian ryder are bloody brilliant on bikes! sometimes they are more entertaining that the race itself, i guess he just needs to find his feet