Hi I'm Crofty,
David Croft, from Sky Sports F1
and I'm the lead commentator.
It's a weird story as to how I
got involved. I was working at
5 Live and I was a football
reporter, I was a bulletin
reader, a master of all trades.
And I wanted to specialize in
sports.
Didn't know which one to go for
and an opening came up to be
the Formula One commentator and
I was asked about it at a bar
in Vegas.
I had a conversation at about
one in the morning with the man
who happened to be the producer
for Formula One and he said
you'd be great at it.
And I'm like yeah when you've
sobered up, stop playing the
roulette tables and come and
have a chat. He went no, no,
I'm really serious.
So Vegas baby is where it all
happened.
I was a fan beforehand
but I didn't realize how little
I knew before I tried to know
a little bit more.
I think saying yes
in a bar in Vegas to the F1
job or auditioning for at
least was a smart move.
Definitely going to Sky
was a very smart move for me.
I'd been at the BBC for a long
while I was ready for a new
challenge.
I was a huge fan of Sky
before I became their lead
Formula One commentator.
But the think about Sky they
do sport properly and if you're
a sports fan which I am if you
have a passion for sport which
I do you want to work with
people who have that same
passion and have that ability
to throw everything at
a sport, take ownership of it,
and give the fans something
that wasn't there before.
So to be part of the Formula
One channel.
And F1 fans who realise they
have their own channel for
their own sport in the UK
it's something that hadn't
been done before and I think
Sky very much nailed their
colours to the F1 mast and
showed people just how
important it was by doing that.
But by taking me on
yes I think it was a very smart
decision for me to say
yes...hopefully one day I'll
prove to Sky that it was a
smart decision to say "will
you?"
