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Jake Humphrey - Iron Man

Jake Humphrey - Iron Man

BBC licence payers have reacted angrily today to the news the stations F1 anchor, Jake Humphrey, is being forced to do domestic work to pay the bills.

It is alleged that during these hard times, the BBC is only paying its… presenters while they are on air and in order to survive between now and next season’s Bahrain Grand Prix, Jake has decided to take in washing. ‘Humphrey’s Wash ‘n’ Press’ service is proving immensely popular with his more well heeled neighbours and the former childrens TV presenter is said to have enough work to see him through the winter.

Mind you, looking at what he is doing to those jeans, a bit of ironing tuition could be called for…

F1 teams in new conspiracy shock

F1 teams in new conspiracy shock

F1’s teams are embroiled in a new conspiracy that has been going on since the start of the season but which only came to light during the Italian Grand Prix weekend. BBC bosses have for some time, been mystified as… to why teams fire up their engines just as soon as the trio of Jake Humphrey, David Coulthard and Eddie Jordan start a piece to camera in front of a garage.

Now, a disgruntled mechanic, recently fired from a top team, has spilt the beans saying that there is a ‘gentlemans agreement’ to start the engines and rev the living daylights out of them, as soon as Eddie Jordan is spotted with a microphone in his hand. The mechanic said; “The boys have been driven to distraction by Eddie’s inane and confused ramblings and when he decided to start involving himself in technical matters we just had to stop him”

The FIA are examining a dossier on the affair but are unlikely to take any action, with one source describing it as “A bloody good idea”.

 

Get fit with Eddie

Get fit with Eddie

Istanbul Park, Saturday. Former team boss and personal irritant to David Coulthard, Eddie Jordan, today announced that the two most unfit drivers he ever employed were Giancarlo Fisichella and Eddie Irvine.

According to EJ, Irvine (left) often struggled to make… it to the door, though thankfully he did finally manage to reach it and escape to a life of luxury with Ferrari and Jaguar, before retiring to spend more time with his money.

Jordan, who had no less than 30 drivers race for him in F1, must know his stuff (his BBC colleague, Jake Humphrey, does remind us of this a lot) but EJ’s comments on fitness may have been ill advised, as during a walk up the pitlane with Jake and Coulthard, Eddie was out of puff by the time they got to the Red Bull pit and when the trio reached Renault, he was well and truly knackered - but was still expected to interview Flavio Briatore.

Eddie then posed a long, breathless, question to Flavio that would have had an asthmatic reaching for his inhaler but with Briatore being in one of his totally incomprehensible moods, nobody was any the wiser.

No change there then.

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