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Can somebody please keep F1 commentator Harry Benjamin away from the caffeine?

IanG71 — Sat, 17 May 2025 14:49:45 GMT

He needs to calm down and breathe, he's not doing radio commentary.

Re: Can somebody please keep F1 commentator Harry Benjamin away from the caffeine?

Daniel0210 — Sat, 17 May 2025 15:03:30 GMT

@IanG71

If you feel that strongly perhaps pass on your opinion via email to the Viewer Relations Team at viewerR@sky.uk

Re: Can somebody please keep F1 commentator Harry Benjamin away from the caffeine?

MarkGoldsmith — Sat, 17 May 2025 18:32:31 GMT

Quite funny , as normally its very similar complaints about David Croft's commentary that i've seen on this forum.

Perhaps whoever is in charge of selecting the commentary team at Sky F1 has a clear preference and manner as to how they want their lead commentators to act.

Re: Can somebody please keep F1 commentator Harry Benjamin away from the caffeine?

TimmyBGood — Sun, 18 May 2025 16:12:04 GMT

Back in the day it was Murray Walker speeding up to the point of incoherence while James Hunt (after repeatedly popping out to 'look at the other side of the circuit' with a relaxing herbal cigarette) slowed down to a crawl....

I guess it was their very different styles balancing out which made them such a good team.

Re: Can somebody please keep F1 commentator Harry Benjamin away from the caffeine?

VtwinRider — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:45:21 GMT

Yep, I agree. As soon as I heard his hysterical voice it was fast forward and watched qualifying in about mins.

Probably gonna be same for GP tomorrow. What till its all over, watch first lap than 30x ff only stopping to watch (with mute on) if anything "exciting" happens.

I agree that Crofty was a bit excitable at the start but I reckon Martin has slowed him down to a coherent level of commentary now with the odd slip getting in now and again.

Re: Can somebody please keep F1 commentator Harry Benjamin away from the caffeine?

SKY1992bf — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 13:37:57 GMT

@MarkGoldsmith wrote:
Quite funny , as normally its very similar complaints about David Croft's commentary that i've seen on this forum.

Perhaps whoever is in charge of selecting the commentary team at Sky F1 has a clear preference and manner as to how they want their lead commentators to act.

@MarkGoldsmith Was just thinking the same thing , sky can't seem to win whoever is the lead commentator 😥

Re: Can somebody please keep F1 commentator Harry Benjamin away from the caffeine?

VtwinRider — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:53:42 GMT

OK, as I thought.

35 secs into race, 150 wpm, voice almost up to cars and dogs wrong car called (he's a pro, supposedly,) so get it right. Safety car out Benjami goes and gets clean underwear. I hit mute button followed shortly after by f/f butt9n.

Not what I'm paying for. I want to be informed and entertained not screamed at.

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Watched F2/F3 this w/e. Commentary was more professional without all the squealing.

Could well be bye bye Sky sports as I have no interest whatsover in football, not that they (Sky) care anyway and save a few quid.

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Re: Can somebody please keep F1 commentator Harry Benjamin away from the caffeine?

Doc5907 — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 20:45:02 GMT

You were lucky, when i lived in Asia we had a rather annoying f1 commentator in Steve Slater 😕

Re: Can somebody please keep F1 commentator Harry Benjamin away from the caffeine?

MarkGoldsmith — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:15:34 GMT

@SKY1992bf wrote:
@MarkGoldsmith wrote:
Quite funny , as normally its very similar complaints about David Croft's commentary that i've seen on this forum.

Perhaps whoever is in charge of selecting the commentary team at Sky F1 has a clear preference and manner as to how they want their lead commentators to act.
@MarkGoldsmith Was just thinking the same thing , sky can't seem to win whoever is the lead commentator 😥

I've just gotten used to it over the years.

At least this shows the commentator has some passion and enthuiasm about the product they are commentating on. What i can't stand is where they clearly draft in someone to commentate on a sport who doesn't really care about that sport.