It being ITV’s last Formula 1 race, there had to be a celebratory montage. A montage is bad enough in itself, but drivers, presenters and other paddock folk miming along with ‘Welcome to the Black Parade’ by My Chemical Romance was a new all-time low. Steve Ryder acknowledged the awfulness, but that doesn’t excuse it.

It was worse, even, than the orchestrated ‘chat’ between Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen early this season, clearly designed to show that Hamilton can get on with a teammate, after all the fuss with Fernando Alonso last season. Someone should have watched it and realised it was unfit for human consumption before broadcast.

One good thing did come out of the montage, however: the similarity of reporter Ted Kravitz and BMW boss Mario Theissen. Scary.

So, next season: back to the BBC. Rumour has it Martin Brundle will keep his job, and be joined by former BBC Radio 5 Live commentator Jonathan Legard; David Coulthard will replace Mark Blundell as pundit, and Jake Humphrey - CBBC, Fame Academy, various sports coverage - will assume the role of presenter. But we’ll see - an announcement can’t be far off.

I’ve not been recording much of Five’s overnight motorsport coverage of late, because frankly I’ve not been getting round to watching much of it. But I will certainly be recording the IndyCar Series highlights in the early hours of Wednesday morning, because that man Justin Wilson only bloody won it. Hooray!

With the first Superleague Formula race at Donington Park this weekend, things seem to be falling into place.

TV coverage was announced yesterday, generally on networks which hold club football rights - Setanta Sports in the case of the UK.

I thought A1GP would be held back by being on Sky Sports, so I’m not as sure as I might have been that this is a problem. Setanta is a much smaller operation though, so it remains to be seen. Of course, my issue is that I won’t be able to watch it - and presumably that’ll be the case for many motorsport fans, so in that way it is going to limit the audience.

More drivers have been announced, and fittingly given the football connection, they’re by no means all from the same nation as the club they’re representing. Tristan Gommendy (France) for FC Porto (Portugal), Adrián Vallés (Spain) for Liverpool FC (England), and Robert Doornbos (Netherlands) for AC Milan (Italy). To be fair, though, there are plenty of more fitting drivers: Ryan Dalziel for Rangers FC (Scotland), Antônio Pizzonia for SC Corinthians (Brazil), Borja García for Sevilla FC (Spain).

But there are still a lot of gaps though: we’ve only got 17 of the mooted 20 clubs confirmed, and we only know the driver for 14 of those 17. Will it all be in place for the weekend? I doubt it, but I’m sure the races will go ahead.

My prediction is that AC Milan will come out of the weekend leading the championship, simply because Robert Doornbos has been driving the car longer than anyone else. But there’s a pretty strong field of former GP2 and World Series by Renault drivers, so it could be quite competitive.

Suzi Perry talked to David Coulthard on the MotoGP grid yesterday, and mentioned rumours that in retirement next year, as well as consulting for Red Bull, he might be popping up on the BBC’s Formula One coverage - which he certainly didn’t deny is a possibility. Stupidly, I’d not thought about that.

Martin Brundle - part of Coulthard’s management team, incidentally - joined the TV world of Formula One when it moved to ITV, despite reservations about moving into television. That’s because he was advised that if he didn’t take the opportunity at that point, when it was changing broadcaster, another opportunity might not arise.

So Coulthard could well be thinking the same thing. I’d be surprised if the BBC dropped Brundle, so perhaps Coulthard would take on the role of pundit. In the nicest possible way, he would have to be seen as an upgrade on Mark Blundell, who has been out of Formula One racing for some time; Coulthard obviously has far more recent experience, so would have more to say about the tracks and technology. And of course Coulthard isn’t afraid to say what he thinks about other drivers.

In any case, after his attempt at commentary recently, I don’t think anyone’s got to worry about the BBC going after Damon Hill to replace them; his contribution seemed limited to saying that he likes Robert Kubica over and over again.

It’s a barren weekend: there’s no live motorsport on Freeview.

MotoGP is on its summer break, back next week in the Czech Republic; the WRC is in Germany next weekend; it’s a couple of weeks before Formula 1 makes its debut in Valencia; and the British Touring Cars are at Knockhill next weekend. So next weekend is busy, and I’m really looking forward to the first Formula 1 race around the streets of Valencia. But that doesn’t help me this weekend, does it? Honestly, it’s just inconsiderate.

There’s only the British Superbikes at Knockhill to look forward to this weekend, for you Eurosport types. Tom Sykes will doubtless be brimming with confidence, after his double race win at the last British Superbike meeting, and his wild card performance in the World Superbikes at Brands Hatch last week, including a 7th place in race 2.

It’s likely to be a subdued Knockhill paddock though, after the tragic death of Craig Jones following a crash in the World Supersport race at Brands Hatch last week. RIP.

Or: scraps & left overs.

Five broadcasts a lot of motorsport in the middle of the night. I’m working though it.

Motorsport Mundial first, the most recent edition of which featured highlights of the first round of the British Rally Championship, which took place really quite a long time ago. Still, it’s always nice to hear Robbie Head commentating - he’s awful at pretending to be surprised, but he knows his rallying.

Apart from a short feature on Darren Gass, and the Pirelli Star Driver competition he won last year, it was a pretty basic highlights package. But with familiar drivers like Guy Wilks and Mark Higgens, the BRC is a championship worth covering.

The next Motorsport Mundial - whenever that might be - will feature V8 Supercars. So it really is a bag of odds and sods. Which is no bad thing.

I don’t know whether the BRC regularly features in Race and Rally UK or not, but the last edition had highlights of the Ford Saloon Car Championship. What else?

Very short highlights, mind, because - like Motorsport Mundial - the first half of so of the programme was cut to extend Five’s NBA coverage. So both programmes started mid-way through, with no sort of opening sequence or introduction. Very strange, but how many people noticed? Possibly just me.

Ford Saloons, then. Quite good fun! Close racing, and a huge variety of cars, from modern Fiesta back to very old Sierra. But I’m not sure why the coverage is so elaborate - there are on-board cameras, inset with driver and rear-view cameras - or indeed why it’s on TV in the first place. Not that I mind, you understand. It’s just a bit surprising.

Commentary from Ian Sowman and Jonny Palmer was utterly servicable. Though just to be clear, that’s not Dr Jonathan Palmer, former Formula 1 driver and commentator, Formula Two champion, Formula Palmer Audi man, and owner of about half the circuits in Britain through his MotorSport Vision company. Not that one. Obscure motorsport commentator Jonny Palmer. Quite different.

Record it? Yes, but Christ knows what you’ll end up with.

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.

The MSA has launched an exciting new website to help people go motorsport - which evidently includes watching it on TV.

It’s a noble cause, and no mistake. I was interested to see their TV schedule to see what I’m missing - because I’m sure there must be some motorsport on some channel that I’ve not noticed. Shame their TV schedule’s so brief, then.

A lot of people have - like me - just got Freeview. So surely it’s at least relevant that highlights of the WTCC are on ITV4, and possibly more helpful than being told that live coverage is on Eurosport. Similarly A1GP, IndyCar and NASCAR - live on Sky Sports, highlights on Five, but Five isn’t mentioned. In fact, it doesn’t mention Five or Five US - the homes of obscure motorsport - at all.

It’s all a bit rubbish. I feel a disappointed email coming on…

GT racing is to motorsport what BBC Parliament is to broadcasting: it’s faintly interesting that it’s there, and it’s probably a good thing, but it’s awfully dull.

The FIA GT Championship is no different, despite ITV4 showing hours of the stuff, and Channel 4 having a half-hour highlights show.

Does anyone actually watch the ITV4 coverage? I skipped through both the Silverstone and Monza rounds. Richard Nichols and Graham Tyler are probably very well informed commentators, but they’re very dry, and certainly aren’t capable of making the racing any more exciting.

Channel 4’s coverage is at least brief enough to sit through, if only to decide whether it’s worth watching again. It isn’t, by the way. Possibly the most telling sign is that after the start of the race, with some actual passing on track, an awful lot of the highlights were taken from pit stops - drivers getting in and out of cars, wheels being changed, refuelling. Exciting! Or not. Then the last 25 minutes of the race were skipped entirely. That must have been good then.

It’s nice to see some familiar friends though: Nigel Stepney of Ferrari spy scandal fame at Gigawave; CR Scuderia with the same livery as their Formula Renault UK cars.

Drivers too: former GP2 and Minardi Formula 1 driver Gianmaria Bruni; Alexandre ‘Xandi’ Negrao, familiar from GP2 and A1GP; former WRC driver Luis Perez Companc; Ryan Sharp, who’s done bits of WTCC and GP2 racing.

It strikes me - probably unfairly - that they’re just there because they’ve got nothing better to do. Not even the Le Mans Series - which thanks to the LMP1 cars is slightly less dull.

Maybe the appeal of GT racing is in the cars - people who like Ferraris like watching them drive around. Because I can’t see the appeal in the racing.

Watching the highlights of the weekend’s BTCC races on ITV4 last night, I discovered what it would be like to be Marty McFly, zipping back and forth in time. If his time travelling was restricted to periods of about five minutes at a circuit in North Yorkshire.

The highlights package cut from Mike Jordan trying to pass Fabrizio Giovanardi with Mat Jackson in front of them, to Mat Jackson trying to pass Fabrizio Giovanardi with Mike Jordan behind them.

That didn’t quite sit right in my head, though I wasn’t sure it was wrong. So I flicked back, and yes indeed, the first move happened on lap 12, the second on lap 11. The highlights then moved happily on to lap 13.

I’m probably the only person in the world to notice, and I think I’ll get over it, so although it’s a weird mistake for someone to have made, I’m hopeful that it hasn’t ripped a hole in space-time.