Why the BBC has messed up so badly

I haven't posted here for a while, well nearly a year infact, but this decision by the BBC made me so angry...I've had to re-open the account!!
To start with I'd like to congratulate Sky, as they do an excellent job with everything they cover, football and to be topical cricket, and also plenty of other Motorsports alongside Eurosport (which comes in a SkySports package) including Indycar, Nascar, GP2&3, WTCC, Le Mans Series etc. Ffor me it is less that it (Formula 1 I'm referring to here!) is on Sky, but the way it has gone to Sky and the nature of the deal.
First off Bernie promised not many weeks ago that F1 would definitely be on free to air TV in the future, although Bernie may have literally answered the question such that the end of 2011 is in the future to which I for one wouldn't be surprised, he has clearly broken that promise. Second the Concorde Agreement states it must be on free to air TV, and whilst Bernie has not technically broken this rule, as with yesterdays cricket controversy which was resolved correctly to the spirit of the game, this deal does not meet the spirit of the Concorde Agreement. Third it means ultimately all Bernie cares about is his back pocket and not the fans, although we all knew that anyway......
Regarding the BBC, they believe it is the first sport they should drop, and whilst I understand that it clearly costs more than others, it is I'm informed the sport they show with the highest viewing figures. What the BBC should have done, is ask first the fans how they could cut costs on their coverage, and surely cutting half the races would have been a very unpopular choice. Possibly more like cutting all the reporters they send to races, just showing the actual track action, or cut the forum to name a few examples.
Consider this though, if they did the same to Wimbledon or the Grand National i.e. show HALF of the coverage you would think that a preposterous suggestion, to which I would agree, it is, if you were that dull to enjoy watching either Tennis or Horse Racing in the first place that is! So in that case why does the same not apply to F1!? This also happened I remember with the US Masters earlier in the year, when I sat down to watch the first piece of midweek telly worth watching in 2011 (F1 practice excluded as during the working day!), to find they only had live coverage of Saturday and Sunday and was very disappointed. To follow on from this, fans would have been perfectly happy I imagine if the BBC had split the coverage with ITV, Channel 4 or Channel 5, all free to air channels. The Nascar in the States I know is split, across as many as 3 channels I believe, ABC, ESPN and Versus, I follow it, all streamed I must admit (which also may happen with the Sky coverage of F1), but between them they are all free to view as far as I know.
As stated above is the point relating to the US Masters being the only decent midweek telly so far this year, surely means plenty of spending cuts could go on by getting rid off pointless documentaries on BBC3&4 which is watched by perhaps a couple of sole individuals or endless repeats of Eastenders or the such like. Or alternatively the, clearly necessary, £900m move to Salford, which would have paid for 20 F1 seasons, even at the BBC’s high cost of coverage!
Another important point is if I now go out and pay £600 to get SkySports with the HD package, to get the same level of enjoyment as we currently get, that comes out at £30-60 per race depending on whether you watch the BBC ones on BBC or not. But surely why would you bother with the BBC coverage anyway? If I have to pay to watch it on Sky, why would I then bother to not use the coverage I’d actually specifically paid for by watching the BBC. Second keeping with Sky keeps the continuity in presenters and coverage, particularly if the likes of Martin, DC and gorgeous Lee to name a few, decide to move to Sky. Therefore this renders any spending by the BBC on the sport a complete waste of money, and thus in my opinion the BBC are wasting more by showing less……
This will for me do incredible damage for the sport of F1, as many British fans at least, will disappear from watching the coverage and, as many people I know cannot afford Sky or refuse to pay money to Murdoch, adding an extra twist to all this, viewing figures will be massively hit. All the teams may be happy now, but in the future not so as sponsors quit the sport to go elsewhere.
Sorry Bernie and the BBC, but this one is a huge mistake.