Austraila 2009: Memo to Jonathan Legard: "A picture is worth a 1000 words!"

As F1 returns to the BBC the simple fact of no adverts is the most marked improvement in Formula 1 coverage.

This is closely followed by an end to 'The Lewis Hamilton Show'. Hopefully this is a decided BBC position to cover the race field *in full* rather than simply being due to McLaren's performance in 09. I guess we will find out if we start to get 'The Jenson Button' show appearing over the next few weeks.

Sadly however while many people have welcomed the loss of James Allen from the commentary team, the BBC's Jonathan Legard who transfers from Radio Five Live is in desperate need of an explanation of the concept of television.

Most of us are in the fortunate position of being able to see for ourselves exactly what he is seeing so having him attempt to describe it after the fact - and while the story moves on - adds nothing at all, other than getting in the way of team radio and Martin Brundle's always insight full contributions.

While in radio people might get confused if you don't know that is a driver speaking in TV land we have this clever device called graphics. If team radio starts you can - and should - just stop mid sentence - we can figure it out.

Legard has a compulsion to finish everything he says as a fully fledged sentence - even if that gets in the way of actual coverage. In tele-vision, a shared reaction of 'wow' or 'that defies belief' contributtes far far more than telling me what I have already seen.

Watching on screen we have far more sources for what's happening than a description - we have on screen graphics, on board cameras and more - so just shutting up for 30 seconds when he doesn't have anything to say assits with that. Only talk when you have something to say, Brundle manages this - and could probably almost sustain the entire race himself doing this.

I guess we can only hope this improves for next weeks race, but we will have to wait and see!