Isn't this just brilliantly ironic?

The cameras do not belong to BBC, F1 are filmed by FOM and FOM pay BBC to air it. So it is strange that BBC are running out of money when they could of kept F1 on, unless FOM are bankrupt

I believe that part of all this is down to Sky's requirements. In other words, they didn't want BBC still showing all the races so in order to take the maximum payment from Sky, they had to agree to the situation as it now will be. IT STINKS.

We are on a fixed income and although we do have Sky, we don't have the sportschannels in our package (because we are not into Footie) that mean we'd get the new F1 channel free. This is kind-of blackmail don't you think - and right now, it's not going to work with us....... once next season begins, and we see what we are left with, we may sell something to get the F1 Sky channel.

Ah good old BBC blowing their own trumpet once again. What also annoys me is that they can still broadcast all races until the end of the 2018 season, its purely penny pinching that's stopping them from showing it all live.

Personally I hope the BBC loose the entire TV commentary team, they don't deserve good presenters and producers. I'd almost put money on that, like cutting all popular TV shows, it will cost them money due to lost revenue, in the long run.

I believe it's still saving them money since the cost of broacsting is split between sky and bbc. Remember they have to pay FOM to broadcast it. So in effect they have halved their fee which was worth millions.