legard is ok (ish) when he has time to think but at times it feels like he's not even looking at his monitors and is way behind the action, he's definately the weak link in all the BBC's coverage, cox would be far better and if nothing else he's another ex racer so has more insight.
more worrying legard doesn't seem to be improving, i'd hoped he'd have spent the off season listening to recordings and realaising how many mistakes he makes and how much total rubbish he fills the airwaves with. someone (possibly on here) said last year he commentates like he's on radio where there's no other information for the listeners and silence is gernerally a bad thing and forgets we can actually see the cars ourselves. ironically radio 5's team seem to have perfected the art of saying as much as possible in as few words as possible so despite being on radio and probably talking as much as legard if not more, it doesn't feel like they do.
the commentary on the practice sessions show how good things can be when you have a commentary team where everyone knows the sport properly, they do something similar to legard where they don't feel the need to actually talk about every corner as a car goes round it (unlike james allen for who anything moving anywhere was the most exciting thing that he'd ever seen and absolutely relevant to lewis hamilton somehow) but whilst they can talk about strategy, drivers etc with some knowlage, legard acts the dumb kid who wants to know everything from brundel.
if he's not replaced then the answer might be to introduce a third commentator to share the expert load with brundel and allow legard a chance to sit back and think, maybe they could persuade davidson and Chandhok to fit it in between them depending on racing commitments.
it's a pity really as jake humphrey has, in the words of steve ryder, made the anchor man's job look easy after steve ryder spent years trying to make it look hard and jim rosenthal made it look bloody impossible, coulthard and jordan have settled down to an unlikely doubly act, lee mckenzie is getting the job done with interviews and ted kravitz is still showing the form he developed at ITV. the only other improvement i'd like is for holly samos to share the pitlane with ted kravitz, she's very competent and would allow better coverage of all the pitlane when there's a story at both ends but that would mean taking her away from radio 5.
you can always spot the good commentators / pundits / presenters in F1, they're the ones that the insiders take to and treat as though they belong there.