The sad part about the BBC coverage is that they intend(ed) to use their incumbents, who are basically poor commentators. There are very few top sportspersons who can talk about their sport lucidly and in an entertaining manner, and have the required "character" to carry it off. Toby Moody and Julian Ryder made a superbly entertaining team, and Randy Mamola is one of the few top sportspersons who can carry off the pit lane job. I do hope the Eurosport coverage doesn't degenerate into 5 minutes of bikes going round a corner followed by 10 minutes of talking heads.
With the shift to BBC I feel that we will go direct from "head of gold" to "feet of clay" without passing through "belly of plastic padding" on the way.