Alex Jacques

Channel 4 do the network program.

So there is a live program on Sky Sports, which is your ESPN.

And then in the network program airs slightly later, but full highlights of the race.

That's a coveted job in British sport.

And it's the one I'd always wanted to do.

You've got to maintain a neutrality.

That's the gig.

Your job as lead commentator is to tell everyone the stakes.

and the order and the importance and the details.

And then I have racing drivers next to me.

That year, Mark Webber, David Coulthard, they've been there, they've done it, they've risked their necks.

My ethos in the commentary box is always,

if you haven't risked your neck, you're not giving an opinion.

That's not how it works.

And that was the season to test the neutrality because it was partisan in a way that Formula One rarely is.

The lovely thing about going around the world is that there is great respect for everyone risking their life out there for our entertainment.

But because it was such a combative season, because these two were so good, this championship meant more

And as a result, it just got dialed up and up and up.

And there was an arms race to sign him.

Ferrari wanted him.