Belgium F1

For some reason, the BBC decided that Spa had to be all about Eddie Jordan, who was allowed far more air time than is sensible to give an Irishman with an opinion. First, the nation, sitting down to Sunday lunch, had to endure him in his trunks, belly flopping into Rubens Barrichello’s pool before there was much buddy-buddy back slapping over a game of golf.

Add in the fact that one of ‘his’ drivers (did he mention that?) came second in the race driving a car from ‘his’ old team, only prevented from winning by ‘his’ pet hate of KER’s and you had EJ meltdown time.

After the race Jordan, plainly keen to try and take some credit for his old team’s success, was all smiles with Vijay Mallya, despite having dumped ten tons of concrete on the Force India driveway last year because of a dispute between the two. Normally Irishmen want to help you fix your drive, not wreck it but there you go.

More amusement was to come in the BBC post-race show from McLaren’s motorhome, when EJ suddenly announced that one of his ears had stopped working, only for Martin Brundle to helpfully suggest he tried using the other one, as he had two.

By this stage, Eddie had plainly had enough of his big day and seemed to doze off, dropping and breaking his microphone.

Thank goodness for small mercies…