Each of the 17 races will be shown in full a few days after the event in a Wednesday evening primetime show that will also include interviews and insight from the paddock. Additionally we will be producing a number of Formula Renault Eurocup catch up shows throughout the season as well.

The first show has already gone out, but will be repeated a 6.30 on Saturday 19th May

The rest of the schedule will provisionally be:

Wednesday 23rd May - Aragon Race 2

Wednesday 29th May - Monaco

Wednesday 13th June - Spa Race 1

Wednesday 20th June - Spa Race 2

Wednesday 27th June - Eurocup Highlights

Wednesday 4th July - Nurburgring Race 1

Wednesday 11th July - Nurburgring Race 2

Wednesday 18th July - Moscow Race 1

Wednesday 25th July - Moscow Race 2

Wednesday 1st August - Eurocup Highlights

Wednesday 29th August - Silverstone Race 1

Wednesday 5th September - Silverstone Race 2

Wednesday 12th September - Eurocup Highlights

Wednesday 19th September - Hungary Race 1

Wednesday 26th September - Hungary Race 2

Wednesday 3rd October - Paul Ricard Race 1

Wednesday 10th October - Paul Ricard Race 2

Wednesday 17th October - Eurocup Highlights

Wednesday 24th October - Barcelona Race 1

Wednesday 31st October - Barcelona Race 2

All programmes will be repeated throughout the week

April 14/15 - Silverstone - FIA Formula 2

April 21/22 - Brands Hatch - Truck Spring Spectacular

April 28/29 - Portimao - International GT Open/European F3 Open (live TV)

May 12/13 - Silverstone - MSVR Club Championships

May 19/20 - Snetterton - MSVR Belgian Racing Weekend

May 26/27 - Nurburgring - International GT Open/European GT Open (live TV)

June 9/10 - Brands Hatch - BRSCC Club Championships

June 16/17 - Brands Hatch - MSVR Mini Festival

June 23/24 - Spa - International GT Open/European F3 Open (live TV)

June 30/July 1 - Snetterton - MSVR Club Championships

July 14/15 - Brands Hatch - International GT Open/European F3 Open (live TV)

July 21/22 - Paul Ricard - International GT Open/European F3 Open (live TV)

July 28 - Oulton Park - MSVR Club Championships

August 18/19 - Brands Hatch - MSVR Lotus Festival

August 25/27 - Snetterton - 2CV 24 Hours/Trucks

September 1 - Oulton Park - BRSCC Club Championships

September 8/9 - Hungaroring - International GT Open/European F3 Open (live TV)

September 15/16 - Brands Hatch - MSVR Club Championships

September 29/30 - Monza - International GT Open/European F3 Open (live TV)

October 6/7 - Donington Park - MSVR Club Championships

October 20/21 - Barcelona - World Series by Renault (TV)

October 27/28 - Snetterton - MSVR Club Championships

November 3/4 - Barcelona - International GT Open/European F3 Open (live TV)

November 24 - Brands Hatch - Britcar Into the Night

Additionally I am delighted to be providing the commentary for the television coverage for the Radical UK Cup, Radical Clubmans Cup, Production BMW Championship, Mini Challenge and Lotus on Track

 If you would like me to commentate on your event please contact me - benfrombristol@hotmail.com / 0797 11 00 465

I have also now joined the social media revolution and am now on twitter @bencommentator

You will be able to hear me through the GT Open Web TV Channel, Premier Sports in the UK and all across Africa for Setanta Africa, with arrangements for other countries still to be confirmed.

The first rounds of International GT Open and European F3 Open will be at the excellent Portimao circuit on the Algarve on April 28 & 29

Along with all UK sports fans I am hoping that Fabrice Muamba continues to improve and my best wishes are with his friends and family. Likewise I cannot praise the medical team attending on Saturday enough. Being married to a doctor I know just how important prompt and expert medical care is in cases like this and speed of attention almost certainly saved Muamba’s life and has given him the best possible chance to make a recovery.

Channel hopping between the 6 Nations and ESPN, I happened to join ESPN in the immediate aftermath with the presenting team being placed into the most difficult of broadcasting positions. I thought the whole team did an excellent job, remaining hopeful, whilst never flinching from the severity of the situation. Jon Champion has been criticised by some for some of his more direct remarks, but I have two comments on this. Firstly, there was a rare honesty to ESPN’s coverage, this was a life threatening incident and no attempt was made to present this as anything else. Secondly incidents such as this are incredibly rare for a sports commentator, especially in a sport where intense physical contact and high speed incidents are not part and parcel of the sport.

Finding the right words for incidents such as this is unquestionably the hardest part of the job for any broadcaster. After all it is one thing to add a commentary after the event or where such an incident could be anticipated (as in a news report) but quite another to do it on the spot when the plan for the afternoon was to cover a sporting event.

The ESPN team had my whole sympathy because I have had the misfortune to be part of the commentary team at an event where a fatal accident has happened. Likewise I have commentated on several incidents where there have been serious injuries and concern for the driver involved. Danger and risk have always been one of the core attractions of motor sport for competitors and spectators alike, and whilst there remain a number of incidents at any given race meeting advances in safety standards mean that these are generally of a rough and tumble nature with serious injuries the exception rather than the rule.

I will never forget the day at Thruxton when Jeff Leadley was killed racing in the GT Cup. I fortunately did not see the incident, I was in the pitlane with Ian Titchmarsh providing the main commentary. As on Saturday, medical attention of the highest quality was on the scene immediately and all the officials of the meeting performed impeccably. Tragically in this instance there was little that could be done. After a four hour delay where we periodically kept the crowd informed of events the meeting resumed for a handful of further races. Finding the right words and tone was amongst the hardest things I’ve ever had to do.

A more personally disturbing incident was Chris van der Drift’s accident at Brands Hatch in 2010. In the event Chris escaped with comparatively minor injuries following a monumental accident coming down Pilgrims Drop. Again I was covering the pitlane, and as a result had interviewed Chris moments earlier on the grid, which made the image of his destroyed car in a garage monitor all the more shocking. The following hour was incredibly difficult. Ian Titchmarsh and myself were continuing to broadcast whilst also trying to find out information about Chris’s condition and when the action would get back underway.

I have also being doing the lead commentary on two occasions where there have been massive accidents and again the outcome was likely to be unclear.

The first of these was my second ever live TV broadcast of the World Series by Renault for Setanta in 2008. Fighting for the lead in Barcelona Marco Bonanomi did a backflip into the scoreboard on the main straight following a brush of wheels with another car. Agonisingly Marco’s head was slumped for several seconds after the car came to a halt, having initially landed upside down. For what seemed an eternity, although really only 10 seconds, I tried to fill time whilst waiting to see if he’d walk away. Fortunately Marco escaped without a scratch and joined me in the commentary box the following day.

The other occasion was Robert Wolk’s multiple cartwheel into Paddock Hill Bend in the 2010 Formula Ford Festival. Such was the magnitude of the accident that it seemed almost impossible that he would walk away. Again, it was a great relief when he walked away, but not after several moments of anxiety and time filling.

For myself, and I’m sure many other commentators, providing coverage for the sports we love is the next best thing to competing, but as Saturday proved, there are times when the fun stops and our passion becomes something altogether less enjoyable.