As one of the most famous voices in British motorsport, Ben Edwards gets to commentate on BTCC, F3 and British GT – with many fans hoping that he could also get the chance to commentate on
Formula One at some point in the future.
Crash.net’s Matt Salisbury was lucky enough to prise Ben away from the
Motors TV camera crew at the
Autosport International for long enough to sit down and discuss what fans can look forward to in Britain’s three premier race series in 2005…
Crash.net:
Ben this is just a chance for us to have a quick look forward to 2005. Obviously British Touring Cars, British F3 and British GT are all championships that you cover, I just wonder where can we expect to hear you this season?
Ben Edwards:
Well I don’t know for sure yet Matt, but I hope much the same as I was doing in 2004, with the touring cars and F3/GT. It’s been great being involved with the premier race series here in the UK and being able to work across all of them. For me they all have something slightly different to offer and I enjoy all of them, each in their own way so I’m looking forward to it very much.
I’ve seen a few people here at the show to get an idea of what is going on, touring cars looks exciting. SEAT obviously are really going for it this year as we expected, they came in strong last year, but this year they want to go out there and win the championship and they want to win the manufacturers championship, and stop Vauxhall who have been dominating it for a few years in row now. They’ve got Luke Hines on board,
Jason Plato and James Pickford who takes over from Rob Huff as the winner of the SEAT Cupra Championship. That is a strong team, there is no doubt, and we all know how strong Jason was last year so I’m really looking forward to that. They aren’t messing around, last year was a bit of a time to see how things go, but now they really have to make it work.
