You’ve got to love the internet, anything’s possible on it… Here, a guy on YouTube has imagined what the intro to the BBC’s F1 coverage might look like next year, and he’s done a very good job. Also illustrates how important using Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain is. Hear us BBC!
Whoever created that did a fantastic job. If the actual BBC intro looks anything like that (so long as they use the same song!), I’ll be happy.
That’ll do! Just throw in some more Hamilton loving and images of drivers’ faces and I reckon we’re there! Seriously tho, they had better use Fleetwood Mac, it is THE F1 music.
Totally agree – all that’s needed is to change the 2008 grooved tyres for 2009 slicks and job done.
That’s some very very good job.
Cracking effort……….
Don’t want to rain on the parade but that intro is a copy, probably not intentionally though, of the 1999 Season RTE Formula One intro in ireland. The song is the same, down to the engine revving, the sequences, crashes, overtakings etc are similar just updated!
Still looks pretty impressive though, i’m trying to see if i can get a copy of the intro i’m talking about.
Does anyone else have a copy if so please post or link it!
That is a great effort, but am I the only person who really want’s them to hold onto the Moby song from ITV’s coverage of F1?
Very good effort! I’m expecting something pretty similar from the BBC, although it’d be nice to have some specially shot footage rather than archive clips.
fab job amazing that he did it at home imagine if that is what the bbc deside to use
thats a stolen concept from ITVs highlight reel which btw is 10x better than this crap.
fantastic effort, im a big fan of the motogp intro for the bbc, but i think they should just use this instead of making something else! and no moby… fleetwood mac far better.
thank god for the bbc takeover, no more *^$#ing adverts!
YEEEEAAAHHHHHH!!!!! This is 100% ace. Job done.
finally i no longer have to see the dude dressed as a golden flag bearing christmas tree wearing make up or that stinking eagle. or james bond coulthard. or poisonous snake on her shoulder lady.
Great job, I imagine there will be uproar if the BBC don’t use The Chain.
Just a note to the poster of comment 6. of course the song is the same, The Chain is known by millions simply as THE F1 Music
There we go beeb, just use this its great!
Point of note just to be a huge geek the song isn´t actually the chain. Its called motorsport (cant remember who by) and samples the chain heavily.
The really important thing is though that now we get Grands Prix without commercial breaks AND we get that song back!
I think it is time to move on with the tune. The chain has had it’s day. I think the BBC need to make it fresh. After all this time the BBC are going to blow the ITV coverage away. they are going to offer so much much more.. arn’t they!!!!!!
I think its time that for such advancement in F1 broadcasting that a tune such as “Lets Get Ready To Rumble” by Ant and Dec be used.
Now thats the future!!
The yellow & white line effects become more irritating the more I watch it.
The video is cool but as a pedant Ive got a few gripes/questions…
1 Should pit babes be shown before drivers???
2 Will BBC have access to video from the ITV years? I can imagine they have to pay for the use but if ITV decide to play hardball BBC coverage will have very little clips from the last few years.
Excellent effort, and clearly not from ITV, as it didn’t just show Lewis Hamilton.
And The Chain is required, by law. That’s a fact
Absolutely love it. Had a tingle running down my spine as soon as the music started and a big grin on my face at the end of it!
COOOOOOOLLLL, it actually gave me goosebumps, roll on melbourne.
@Roland – ITV don’t own the commercial rights to F1 footage, Burnie Ecclestone and the FOM do. The BBC should have no problem whatsoever using on-track footage.
A cracking effort, can’t wait for next season.
The Chain is F1! And just to complete it all, how about the Legend that is Murray Walker to do the opening GP??
puts ITV’s rubish to shame really!!
good to here Fleetwood Mac being used again!
and the less said about that moby crap the better.
does need a classic Murray “GO GO GOOO” tho!!
Well I’m afraid I agree with Nick (7). I too like “Lift Me Up”.
I’m sorry but “The Chain” is just sooo boring.
WOW…..bring on that song…it rules FULL STOP
I grew up to that song, pleassseee BBC have that on
and i may just start watching again….
Gotta say I did not really like the Chain and actually prefer the Moby “Lift me up” song… Graphics look good thought nice action shots.
Great stuff! Reminds me of the old days as we didn’t have ITV outside UK. Only wish cars would look that cool for 09 indeed, the truth will be far from that.
Yeah it’s great. Good Job.
Brings me back to the days when there was only a half hour coverage on Sunday nights,slotted in between Darts and Pot Black,…in those days people likened us to Anoraked trainspotters!
…but Murray brought it all to life like no other!
It HAS to be The Chain!
In response to earlier comments, the footage of the cars doesn’t belong to ITV; infact to FOM, the Formula One Management Team who distribute footage across the world. So I very much doubt that would be a problem.
Loving the Intro though; very professional and well done, must have taken a while, or at least with a sublime level of skill in such a department!
I love the fact that he included Jenson’s wild eyes after he’d just won his first grand prix. It’s at around 43 seconds in
Note to Post 15: this is the chain, right at the end of the song. not sure what that other thing you’re on about is but sounds like it uses a sample of the last 30secs or so of the chain by fleetwood mac. this song SHOULD definitely be used. But it won’t be. Because it doesn’t matter that we’re the ones who are paying for it, the BBC don’t listen!
Class video, I hope they use that for the opening, but maybe with the drivers at the start. The songs good, I have no real opinion on it though. Everyone wants it, so it seems that the only sensible decision for the BBC is to go with public preference.
Can’t wait for Melbourne. But am I the only one who would like to see some snowy F1 racing tracks? Those new snow plows – I mean front wings – should cope well with it…
the yellow lines in the video featured at the top are good but get annoying the more you watch it. Maybe changing the colours of the lines to represent the teams might make it a bit better
I love this! Hearing The Chain in a F1 sort of way again makes me smile, it just IS the F1 theme to me, I grew up with it and they just HAVE to bring it back.
good effort tho Tom+s right it IS wasted ! + more babes, more crashes, more eyes, more duels & a wee bit more history and ..less hamilton crew (how could you leave out his pops tho ???!!!!) otherwise almost cool
GO BRO sho ém how it´s supposed to B done !
Lovely stuff
Lovely stuff
Fleetwood Mac – The Chain , makes everything sound cool! you could have people battering a bunch of puppys and seal’s with heather mills wooden leg! to that song and it would make that video cool!
Bon Jovi theme. Dooo iiit.
This is a BBC employee inside job! Someone at the beeb has too much time on their hands
Excellent job, cannot wait for the real thing on BBC One in high definition
DONT USE FLEETWOOD CHAIN – THE MAC!!!
Use something else, not that LIFT ME UP crap or the one before that (when Coulthard raced 2001 i think).
I suggest something like Pendulum’s Granite or a proper song that gets faster as it goes on. And the pictures should include legendary corners like Eau Rouge and Copse and should show the World Champion winning at the end. Then it’ll be great.
nice job it time to move away from the itv intro
Thats apretty good first attempt. Made a true fan who knows what we want.
2nd attempt; More history, less lines, the best corners and some crashes. Sounds like a total re-edit but he seems keen to make a into we all want.
Beep should run a competition on stuff like this. It’l save them thousands.
sorry:http://www.youtube. c om/watch?v=0GupeqJEU-A&eu rl
Sorry but this person clearly just re-used those excellent videos you can get from formula1.com and cut and pasted them together with the Fleetwood Mac music over the top.
Great effort, but not “that” special. Sorry.
Some say…
his alarm clock plays “The Chain” every morning, and that if he were Bernie Eccelstone, he would always be a short, near-sighted, mop of hair and hate…
All we know is, he’s called the Stig…
Use “Richard III” by Supergrass….
Great video but i hope they dont use the chain as the music, it is crap!!!
‘The Chain’ is the only option. I actually cannot believe people claim to like and even prefer that horrendous ‘Lift Me Up’ excuse for music.
As for suggesting Pendulum – why not use one of their older decent tunes instead of ‘Granite’, which is one of their weakest, cheesiest songs for the teenage girls they sadly seem to have targeted as the audience for their recent band orientated format.
I wouldn’t be suprised if the BBC do use The Chain, after giving it a remix in a similar fashion to the beloved Jessica for TG. There is clear scope for adding much heavier drum hits and reworking the guitar tone but there is a danger of spoiling the purity of the simple bass riff with anything too fancy.
I really enjoyed ITV’s montage of the former British F1 champions from the China programme this year – as their use of The Propellerheads ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ was a great example of how well drum & bass fits the imagery of F1.
If the beeb doesn’t use that, then it won’t be as good. That was AWESOME!!!
I actually found that on a website that presented the vid as the real thing from BBC…
I never had second thoughts. Wow…
let the good times roll, warm sunday afternoons the grass neads cutting the car is covered in bird muck then you here that song, f**k it it F1 time.
if the BBC do not use the F1 tune as it’s always called it would be a poor start, with Murry Walkers “It’s GO,GO,GO” and Lewis doing some real driving thats what we need.
Lets GO,GO,GO………
WWOOW….very nice work…except the parts with hamilton…it (hamilton) just ruins the whole thing.
get rid of it (hamilton) and its a masterpeice.
brilliant work..must be said
Crackin vid, and on the subject of possible DnB theme tunes, and agreeing with post 51, Old Pendulum is the best. Try Fasten your Seatbelts. Perfect song!
This is the way it should be. There are other pieces of music that would work, but none of them screams Formula 1 in the way “The Chain” (or something that samples it successfully, I suppose) does. Still, no matter what else, the BBC coverage is not going to inclde the words “presented by James Allen” in the opening credits, so it already beats ITV, even if it opens with images of wheelbarrow racing over a sountrack of Terry Wogan’s “The Floral Dance”…
If the BBC do actually listen to the public (after all we give them the money to make their programs)
then they should definately use “the chain”. Ask anyone who grew up in the 70′/80’s to name the F1 thenme tune and they will say “The chain”.
Its simple as that all the bbc need to do is ask Murray to do a few GP’s across the year and use that song and you have a winning formula (no pun)
Awesome video aswell btw.
it was amazing how did he make something so amazing it was almost amazing as watching burnley beat arsenal. lol
The Floral Dance………… Perfect
There were two things more annoying than “Lift Me Up” last year…
1. Sony clips using Iron Maiden
2. Sony clips using that other unidentifiable POS.
Then again not having adverts means we won’t have the same tiny snippets of the same song being played every ten minutes every other sunday!
Looks great. Shame if it really has been nicked from other sources.
how about ‘the summer song’ by Joe Satriani. Now that’s a song to consider. Is ‘Slam’ an older Pendulum song, i like the dancing fat bloke in the video.
Fleetwood Chain – The Mac is old now and needs to be put to rest as their are better alternatives. The Chain had it’s day, choose something different, with a high tempo beat and an infuriating race like feel.
As with so many other ….. i loved it … the sound of F1 is back and its making me feel like a boy again ….. i havent see a full race for ages …. but i cant wait for next season …. BRING IT ON >!!!!!!!!
That tune … and Murray …. and its a done deal ….. Its back to the good old days of F1 … listen to the people BBC …..
this must of taken him ages to do so i do hope hes got a job with the bbc because if not he has to much spare time and should get a job instead of bumming it off tax payers and also has anyone else heard the rest of this song because its awfull this is the best bit i dont think you need any music in the background other than the cars engines take this for example Shell Ferrari have come up with a novel idea on how to get petrol take a look on youtube and type SHELL FERRARI in the surch bar looks cool dont think the police would be to happy with the lane usage though P.S SORRY DONT KNOW HOW TO DO THE LINK THING
Still pity you guys are stepping in while F1 is losing it’s spot. The cars will be ugly hybrids.
The calendar in being shortened weekly.
FOTA is meeting today, so hope this ‘petrol’ heads will make right decisions, but fear opposite…
Better than ITV’s anyday
Wow, that’s a really good video! BBC should look into this type of intro!
Fantastic! The background music is the same (remixed a bit) that was on the intro of Geoff Crammond’s Forumula 1 GP, the first one, from 1991. Fantastic.
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It would be better if the last scene they put Massa’s father emotional scene. hahahaha
What an excellent job!!
The music is brilliant, but the scenes are also well co-ordinated, energy and emotion
superb effort the beeb better use fleetwood mac coz it is the law
That sent shivvers up my spine! Oh yes please, bring The Chain on, can’t wait for the Beeb coverage next year.
Wow! The internet can do this?!
they need the song !!!
great effort though but its not the same without the song
Amazing job, looks legit.
It’s perfect, it has the right balance of Hamilton/other 19 drivers which is great, also.
i dont care what it looks like formula 1 has to have fleetwood mac the chain ultimate record!!!!
That is epic.. employ that guy.. whoever he is. he is bleedin rapid..
wicked!
Love it
BBC, if you read this, employ the person who did that video, it’s class…
Awesome! :3 I wish they kept Lift Me Up, though, that was great…
Glad it’s come home to BBC. ;3
I think a lot of people will disagree with me, but i think that intro wasn’t very good. The music was poor and there was no drama. ITV set very high standards, i just hope the BBC can do better.
A little tweek here and there to a few images (tyres, driver faces and such like) but deffo no tweak to the music. Thank god that THE TUNE of F1 is back……
Brilliant effort, and please if anyone at the BBC is reading this, let have the chain. It’s F1’s proper theme.
have u gone mad its crap, ihope the bbc do a lot better than that and lose the music fleetwood mac !THIS IS 2008.
I prefered the itv one especailly with the music
IS THIS DUDE PROFESSIONAL??? great job
Answer to question 7. Yes you are the only one. The Chain is the true F1 theme/ The ITV tune is crap.
Whoever created that did a fantastic job
Fantastic, well done whoever you are, that is absolutely superb!!!
Now you just need to create a couple of short clips for the ad-breaks…. Oh have on, cancel that, we’ve got rid of the ads!
Thats really good and ther is the old F1 theme tune that makes it even better. 10/10
Very good promo. Here’s a very good alternative music suggestion:
Band: Ozric Tentacles
Track: Dissolution (The Clouds Disperse)
Album: Pungent Effulgent
I recommended this to Mark Blundell when I met him shortly before he took up his ITV role. That was a pointless name drop really, wasnt it?
this is the best F1 intro ive seen in all the years ive watched F1(2) and if the real intro is nearly this exciting, thatll be excellent! needs more Hamilton though.
i thinck jeramy should be something to do with the f1 and what happend to hammoned hosting it
Well, the song’s good and all that BBC Sport nuts is good but it’s too boring! We need Lewis winning his title at the end sir. A good job thought well done.
I don’t care what the intro is like as long as they play The Chain,or perhaps Bad To The Bone (George Thorogood & The Destroyers) as used in Terminator 2.Not anything by that Bald phsycho serial killer -
oops,sorry,Moby !!
i just lost the game
Superb.
F1 = The Chain. No ifs or buts. To be honest you could show a minute of tarmac and play that song and I’ll be in the mood.
Anything beats that awful Moby thing that sounded like something you’d do rhythmic gymnastics to.
other than fleetwood mac, if rock, or pop, indie, metal or any other silly commercial dribble is use in the intro.
use something fast and modern, anything between 130-180bpm
immediately as I heared the bass intro, goose bumps all over me
please BBC!!!!
Exactly Jam Jar! (88)
This is 2008 (will be 2009). There should be a change. Allright, it shouldn’t be Moby – Lift Me Up. It’s a great song but that was for ITV.
They need something different.
It needs to be fast and would be great if it was fairly heavy as well.
Something like, Metallica – All nightmare long!
Much more exiting than the racing.
Can’t spiel, shud av been exciting….doh!
Honestly, check out my suggestion on #95 – it’s perfect. The problem with The Chain is it’s the past, done. Do you want Rentaghost back on the BBC too? Let’s move on and it’s only a very small part of the track anyway.
What are we worrying for?
Look at the cars for 2009!
They look ridiculous!
My fear is that more teams will drop out and in that case F1 will come to an end, grid too short.
F1 is ruled by the FIA, governing body of RAC/ADAC/ANWB etc, bonds of mostly elderly people!
They are no motorsport lovers!
They have no clue!
Hybrids with funny wings, can’t believe it…
Thats actually a really good video. Can’t WAIT for f1 on BBC, no more dam adverts!!!! and coulthard will be cool, and martin brundle from itv! awsome!!! only 106 days, 2 hours, 59 minutes and 45 seconds til the new season starts!!!
great video, lame music tough
The Chain is F1, nuff said.
This is just a montage of some good clips with a great music track, its OK but the BBC will do something much better, the standard of opening credits for MOTD and the olympics for example is far superior. I’d like to see more of the olympic style animation blended with some good F1 shots with the chain music…. that would be cool
That is classic.
Make that happen, F1 without a Mac Attack just isn’t the same.
I hate to say it, but it looks entirely homemade to me. The clips just rigidly succeed one another as they do on any YouTube compilation video, and with no sense of order or momentum. Grid girls come first for no apparent reason, followed by a not very well targeted shot of any old rear wheel pulling away, and it finishes with a randomly grinning Lewis who you’d only know was even in ‘celebratory’ poise if you were aware of the footage already (immediately post-Brazil, I believe?)… and that’s before we consider the oft-mentioned overpersistent and lazily applied yellow stripes, which, again, just look like some kind of little ditty somebody’s quickly put together in the university library. Just look at that “Grand Prix” titling as well. It’s as photoshopped as they come.
Still, I wait with baited breath the treatment the BBC opt to take with this one. How often do you get such a hotly-anticipated… INTRO?!
Club Foot by Kasabian would be a great song for this.
ditch the rock music, only fat hairy people in their 40’s will like the intro if it uses rock.
Well Raj….count me as a fat hairy, 40-something, female then u thicko!! If I made a generalisation about Banghra u’d be having a fit, but it’s ok to knock rockers is it, how ignorant.
At least someone has had a go at an intro. The Chain IS the F1 theme tune, and thank god, no more ruddy ad breaks!
well I think it is a great effort personally.
However , and there is always a however , I think if he had access to better stock footage it would look a lot better , I believe there is a second version now on youtube , which I think is a little weaker than the first, I would not say not as good as they are both very good pieces of work in thier own right.
In relation to the discusssion on theme music , well there should be no discussion, I hope the top gear team (mainly Mr Clarkson) has been putting in his large boot to make sure this happens, as he is the face (and name) of the most highly viewed motoring show and thus should his voice be heard in the rounded corridors of auntie’s house then it may well be worth its weight in fuel…
The BBC don’t have to think of an Intro now because this bloke has made it for them,much better than ITV’s version. Roll on 2009!!!
its a plausible intro
Yeah, it’ll be so much better once the ads have gone, reckon they should get rid of the white and yellow lines around the images if they do use it, but that’s a great effort even if its a copy
Great idea “Your stigness”. Heard that song and its great for this.
As all last years clips will probably be owned by ITV, will BBC be able to use any 2008 footage for their title sequence ??
This is brilliant. Actually the BBC should give this guy his just rewards and pay him to use it! And if they don’t keep the chain I may stop paying my TV licence, it’s what F1 always should have been.
Oh, and to the guy who said the was just an updated copy of the “1999 Season RTE Formula One” in Ireland, are you not missing the fact that they have obviously just copied the BBC anyway, who used that song as long ago as between 20 and 30 years, I remember it as a kid.
What the hell is that ? For god sake … That msuic makes me sick and it sound like a furneral!
Why can’t thier be sound of the F1 cars and proper music like Rock? (Meat Loaf) For instace
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I soooo hope they use the chain, it would bring in loads of fans that have left the sport over the last few years.
I don’t think they need a fresh idea or anything they need to revert back to when F1 was loved by many and try to shake down the current image F1 has.
Go back to sliks – excellent move
Go back to Mac – thats a no brainer!
i’m too young to really remember F1 on BBC, but something in me remembers this song, whenever i hear it my skin get’s goosebumps, and i get excited.
this is the only song for the job.
Nick (7) and Steve (25), you must realise that you are in a teeny weeny minority wanting to keep that torturous “Lift me up” noise that USED to eminate from our TVs.
“HEY DUDE” Kula Shaker is a good contender. Check it out and close your eyes while the track builds up, imagining the cars bulletting off the start when the music bursts into action. Oh yes!
Would you have Match of the Day without ‘Offside’; Pot Black without ‘Black & White Rag’; Ski Sunday without ‘Pop Looks Bach’; Cricket without ‘Soul Limbo’; Wimbledon without ‘Light and Tuneful’ or golf without ‘Chaseside Shoot-up’? No of course not. And you can’t have Formula One without ‘The Chain’…..
Ha, perfect comment! I would like to have a ringtone on my mobile with Chaseside Shoot-up, great suggestion.
I’ll bet any money that all you monkeys saying the Chain sounds shit aren’t old enough to remember the original BBC F1 coverage.
Anyone who prefers that ITV moby shite is better probably thinks Akon has depth too…
The Chain is the only choice. Done, dusted, stfu.
‘Anyone who prefers that ITV moby shite is better’
Huh? yeah, I know..
just watched it again, and damn! Goosebumps everytime.
First 30 seconds demonstrate why this track needs to used.
This piece of music is synonymus with F1 and the mere fact that people are reporting goosebumps is why this track ought to be taken on board for the BBC’s coverage of the new 2009 F1 season. Anything else is most likely to disappoint the majority of F1 fans out there, and why would the BBC want to deliberately do that to people who pay for it’s existence.
Do the right thing BBC, listen to the people and give us an F1 coverage that is innovative and fresh, but don’t forget thats its just as important to draw on those aural memories that we all remember with great fondness (and by that i don’t mean the ITV theme tune).
Not using the Chain would be like dropping the MOTD music when they got it back from ITV. It simply can’t be done. Refresh the broadcast approach, sure, I look forward to seeing what they’ve done, but if I get up at 7am to watch the first race and am not rewarded with a healthy amount of goosebumps, I, and millions of others, will be more than disappointed!
If I had my way I would change the tune to all of the BBc sports shows..MOTD, Cricket, Wimbledon, all tedious, overplayed and boring, also I would change that dreadful dirge of a national anthem too.
Whoever said that that was a rip-off of the one RTE Ireland used is an idiot, Irish coverage used Firestarter by The Prodigy and later used Right Here Right Now by Fatboy Slim.
Anyone think this is better than the one they’re actually using?
WAY BETTER THAN ITV ANYDAY.
the intro is good but it would be better if real f1 cars were in it