Jake Humphrey: I'm proud of the effort that our whole BBC team put into F1

I'd like to start this week's column by saying how proud I am of the past two-and-a-half years of F1 coverage on the BBC.

I remember when the BBC first won the rights to show the sport and the aim of the whole team was to try to bring the viewers as close to possible to a sport that, at times, can seem very alien to the wider public.

My high point since 2009 was a letter I received at the end of Jenson Button's victorious Championship season from a lady who told me she was in the garage in Brazil as Jenson joined myself, David Coulthard and Eddie Jordan live on BBC One.

She said she couldn't believe how close she was to the raw emotion of Jenson finally achieving something he had strived for daily over the previous 20 years.

Just as I was wondering why she didn't come and speak to me, she signed off by saying 'so thank you for taking me right into the thick of the action from my living room' -and that letter reminded my why we do this job and how special live sports coverage can be. From Felipe Massa's accident two years ago to Sebastian Vettel's dominance today, we have loved getting under the skin of the sport, building the audiences to a 10-year high, capped off with the delight as we found out we'd won a BAFTA as we were about to fly home from the Turkish Grand Prix.

And I guess it is with that in mind that it is with a little sadness that we won't be covering every race live from 2012 onwards.

On the flip side, it is important to retain perspective and to point out that the BBC will still be the place to come to for broad, inclusive F1 coverage.

The BBC will have 10 live races from next season, and highlights of every race that isn't live, meaning that all the action central to the story of the season will be in High Definition on the BBC. Additionally, it's an interesting new journey for the sport. It is important to point out the BBC didn't want to lose Formula One, however a freezing of the licence fee actually means that keeping the sport is a success in itself.

Sky has done wonderful things with cricket and football, it offers incredible depth of the sports it covers and has already signalled its intention to take the sport to new levels. We'll see how a sport that is so dependent on big TV audiences will react to the news of partly non-free-to-air F1 coverage.

However, one thing remains. We will deliver some cracking drama as the rest of the pack chase Vettel and, as ever with these things, the real focus should be on the sport.And with only one win in his last three races, the focus should also be firmly on Vettel. The Championship leader comes into this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix with question marks hanging over him. Namely, can he win from anywhere but the front?

He has got only one F1 win to his name when starting anywhere but the front row of the grid. His team-mate Mark Webber has described the German as having a 'bit of mongrel' in him and Vettel needs that right now.

We need to see him show the ruthlessness of Fernando Alonso, the never-say-die attitude of Lewis Hamilton or the calmness under pressure that Jenson Button shows. As ever, I look forward to a large audience joining us.

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