It’s not often that I’m in a Eurosport-enabled house, but I was this weekend – a good weekend for Eurosport, with World Touring Cars, British and World Superbikes, and live coverage of almost all of the Le Mans 24 Hour. I didn’t get to watch a lot of any of it, but at least it was there.

I saw a few minutes of Superpole for the World Superbikes, but with Jack Burnicle and James Whitham at the British Superbikes, the commentary was distinctly lacking pizazz.

I caught the odd bit of Le Mans, but five minutes here and there of an endurance race isn’t exactly a satisfying viewing experience. From reading reports today the final hour was excellent stuff, with Audi managing to hold off a closing Peugeot, so it’s a shame I missed that.

With Martin Haven on WTCC duty, there was plenty of Carlton Kirby at Le Mans. He’s generally hated in serious motorsport circles, but I greatly enjoy his bumbling commentary, and there’s something effortlessly likeable about his voice.

There’s not much on the internet about Carlton Kirby, bile-ridden forum comments aside. He’s only mentioned three times on Wikipedia. Two of them are the Dakar Rally page, and a German page about the 2007 LMS season.

My favourite, though, is this page, where a user called ‘Richard n’ has tried to create a page for Carlton Kirby, only to be told that he isn’t notable enough.

Poor Carlton Kirby. Why shouldn’t he have a page where people can spread malicious lies about him? Surely he deserves at least that.