Thundersport PR man and tubby little monkey Steve Day has bagged a place alongside Julian Ryder in Eurosport's MotoGP commentary box when he stands in for Toby Moody at four races this year.

Moody has secured the lead commentator's job for ITV's British Touring Car coverage so Day, who has been working for Eurosport on such diverse projects as Nordic Combined Skiing, will step in.

Day did himself no favours with bikesportnews.com the other week when he text to say he was sitting next to Chemmy Alcott at Eurosport towers…