First, apologies for not participating much of late, work is getting in the way. Go Green? Lewis goes green by making parts for a car, burning rubber etc. My preference is to rewild and provide habitat for wildlife. However, some years ago Lewis said it was his intent to use 44 as a brand and X44 is a good play. Reverse grid is a gimmick and as pointed out it was processional in the main, just a few names making headlines, names that would not normally.
yeah, I'm optimistic the new aero rules next season (or is it the season after) will stop them being so processional, I don't know why, maybe someone spiked my coffee.
Stunning BBC coverage of Le Mans..."Paul Di Resta help team win Le Mans 24-hour race": https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/54233737 "The 34-year-old, along with Englishman Phi Hanson and Filipe Albuquerque of Portugal, won the annual endurance race in France by almost 33 seconds." Other than mentioning that the win secured them the LMP2 WEC Championship title, there's no indication that PDR and co were racing in the "second class", finishing 5th overall, 17 laps down on the overall race winning Buemi/Hartley/Nakajima's Toyota LMP1 car. Why the BBC maintain a "motorsports" section of their website when nobody know anything outside of F1 is beyond me.
The BBC " Motor sport section " is beyond a Joke IMHO . Jenny Gower is very good IMHO but that's on the radio .
Jennie Gow did stints as the pitlane reporter for the official Le Mans coverage this weekend, and you're right, she's excellent. Clearly knows her stuff and is employed by the BBC for some topics. She's done MotoGP and Formula E too. Seems mad that the BBC employ her in a fairly narrow role, and yet employ Andrew Benson as "chief F1 writer", when he apparently has no interest in reporting anything beyond F1, and doesn't have anything like the screen/radio ability of Gow.
wasn’t aware of the other stints , so thanks for the info . Infinitely better than Benson IMHO and look at me Suzy Perry
I find the newspaper reports on F1 very mundane. They describe the race, in the papers I read, insight is never provided, comment beyond the shallow is never provided. Analysis, questioning of Stewards decisions, comparisons even, just not provided. They have simply watched the Sky broadcast and stated what they saw. For some semi interested parties, maybe that is enough. An British newspaper, reporting on a sport with the soon to be greatest racing driver ever, who is British, and they just don't get excited. Very poor show on the part of the newspapers in my opinion.
Domenicali new F1 boss from next year, ex-ferrari in charge on both sides now, maybe they'll magically become competitive again, completely fairly ofc.
Doubt it, Domenicali isn't on the best terms with ferrari, and lets be honest, the FIA under Todt hasn't been anywhere near as pro-ferrari as it use to be.
He is also well in with VW, which could help them enter F1. It does appear that Ferraris 2019 pu secrets have stayed just that. So my guess would be that FIA either had an internal Ferrari tip off or just investigated because other teams suggested their PU was too powerful overnight. So yes it does look like FIA haven't been as pro Ferrari as previous but keeping the secret does show a little bias maybe?