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I thought he was entertaining on the Le Mans commentary, all the commentators made mistakes, but I'm sure we all would if you had to keep talking 2-3 hours at a time.
Any casual viewer was entertained and informed enough to know what was going on. My favourite commentator was one of the guys during the night, I think he covered ChampCars/single seaters. He was on with Neville Hay(?) when it started to rain. |
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I'm not a Kirby fan and often find his style quite irritating but I didn't think he was too bad at Le Mans this year. For me this year, the commentating star was Liz Halliday; I only detected one obvious mistake by her (and being human, they are all capable of doing that - Murray made many) and I thought she was an absolute natural.
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Is he the old fella that commentates on LMES sometimes and commentated on the Grp C race at LM last weekend? I don't have Eurosport so don't know their commentators too well.
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Nicely spelt!!
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I know for sure he could'nt claim to be it. He needs a spellcheck on his mouth more than I do on my prose.
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I found Carlton quite refreshing at Le Mans after listening to Simon Hill and Neville all night in my opinion
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He was hilarious on DTM from Norisring, almost was about to get out of the box and shoot teh "complete idiot who dared to walk in frotn of Green during his pitstop"
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Carlton has been doing a Wincey Willis (anyone remember Treasure Hunt) type role during the Tour of France where he gives facts & figures and stuff from Eurosport HQ in Paris. He's actually quiet good at that, and I have enjoyed his cycling commentary of smaller events in the past. I think I like it because I don't know much about cycling so I can't spot when he makes mistakes
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The point has already been made that he turns his hand to a number of sports and it must be difficult to maintain any depth of knowledge over such a wide spectrum.I feel that he does an OK job most of the time and really enjoy watching the Dakar highlights that feature him.This is possibly because there is time to research the day's events and produce a scripted performance rather than having do commentate as the event unfolds.I hope to enjoy his commentary when whatever we are given as a substitute for next year's Dakar takes place.
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