9.7.12 Silverstone Grand Prix

It was an exciting race, and made for good entertainment - except of course for the commentary.  More arduous than actually driving a car in the race and travelling at ludicrous speeds, while experiencing high g-forces over many laps, was the incessant and massively annoying noise of David Couthard.  It's got little to do with his having a Scottish accent - it about the weird and frustrating intonation he dishes out.  He drags out some words, mispronounces others, and lifts the pitch of words at inappropriate stages.  Many of the final syllables of words are uttered with a rise that signals a slight question - one that he's going to answer himself by continuing to talk into his microphone without let-up.  Shut up, please!  Just give it a break every now and then, and let me get over the crushing agony of temporary aural and mental problems induced by the monotonous tripe that's forced my way. 

On the matter of tripe, here are some examples of input:

"If you're hit by 640 kilos of racing car, something's going to hurt."  [Thanks for that, David]

"Can he respond on those new set of Options?"  ['On those options' or 'On that new set of Options' - one or the other, please, but not your drivel]

"They're both on different tyres."  [No, David, they can't be, because there are two types of tyre, and they can't both be on different tyres.  There is nothing to compare their choices with!  They can both be on the soft tyres, or both on the prime tyres, and they can thus be on different tyres from one another, but they cannot both be on different tyres - just say "they're on different tyres" and be done with it]

While I'm relaying my grievances, I must just include a Derek Warwick quote which I noted as he talked to Coulthard on the grid before the start:

"This is one of the tick boxes that all drivers want to win."  Nob.

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