The BBC have confirmed their commentary team for their coverage of the 2009 MotoGP season….and it’s bad news. Suzi Perry, Steve Parrish and Matt Roberts remain in place, and unfortunately so does Charlie Cox. Which means any BBC viewers face another tedious year of listening to him wheezing out his ‘catch phrases’. (“He needs that like a third armpit”, “Once more over the stripe”, “He’s got the magnets on”, “That’s shot the fox”, “He’s in P-nowhere” and so on…)

Perry and Roberts I can cope with, even Parrish is bearable when paired up with a decent co-commentator – but Cox brings the whole thing crashing down. We’ve said it before, he’s the David Brent of race-day and the special olympics of sports commentary.

Some noise is already on the BBC forums:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A45519564:
Choice quote: “Mind you, I am quite prepared to watch the season but with the volume muted.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A45954471:
Choice quote: “As for Charlie Cox again has no exciting and informative commentating skills.”

Races fans had their fingers crossed when Cox signed on as a presenter for the Australian version of Top Gear, and hoped that this commitment would mean he would stay in Australia and not come back to the BBC. Cox left the show in December after reviews that could only be descirbed as ‘mixed’ to ‘awful’. And now he’s back. Bollocks.

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