Naff F1 journalism

MaxZero · Post by **MaxZero** » 31 Jan 2011, 10:54

Just like to highlight whats in the list of F1 stories at motorsport.com today, of all days when theres a lot going on and plenty to cover, they felt the need to write about Alonso's beard

http://www.motorsport.com/news/article. ... 8876&FS=F1

Apparently his mother doesn't like it

Nehoo there must be better examples of F1 non-stories, anyone got any favorites?

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 31 Jan 2011, 11:08

I posted this a while back.

http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3857

It is a good example of a F1 related non-story. But while my link is a generic news report, a news like that in motorsport is a whole new thing. Non related, it is a shame that Alonso is going to shave is moustache. I was looking forward to the return, at last, of the great moustachioed champion! Like the one in my avatar. Or this one:

Well, there goes my sole reason to root for Alonso. :lol:

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 03 Feb 2011, 20:13

Naff F1 journalism.
http://img199.imageshack.us/f/bbcf1fail.jpg/

Apparantly David Coulthard if of ex Ferrari fame. Having driven for, Williams, Ferrari and Redbull.

I don't expect too much from di Resta but I expect more from the BBC. I mean it's not like Coulthard is a major employee for the BBC F1 team or anyting :roll:

edit, they changed the bold text to say Mclaren but still have him as driving for Ferrari further down the page, I have a screen shot saved but don't know how to post it here.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 03 Feb 2011, 21:06

They seem to have changed the rest of the text as well, there's no mention of Ferrari anymore.

If you still want to show us the screenshot upload it on ImageShack or a similar site.

Ferrim · Post by **Ferrim** » 03 Feb 2011, 22:06

"And into the pitlane... OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUGH! My Goodness! David Coulthaaaard smashes his scarlet Ferrari into the pitlane...!"

This kind of "Naff F1 journalism" is seen every day in the Whole Spanish Press. Today, courtesy of Marca: "Massa blowns the F150's engine", the Spanish sentence implying that he is to blame for the blown-up.

And another one which is even worse. The headline reads: "Massa: "I'm sorry for the lost time". Once you read it, you find out that Massa has not uttered that sentence at any point, he says they've lost a lot of time because of the engine problem, but he doesn't say sorry (it would be stupid, and only makes sense from the "he's to blame" point of view, which is nonsensical).

This is fully on the "Alonso is the best, every other driver is bad and particularly so if they are teammates to Alonso" line of thought that they like to follow.

I actually should thank them for doing this kind of stuff. If they did proper journalism I would had never looked to non-Spanish F1-related websites, would have missed a lot of good things out there (this website and its forum are high on the list of these things) and my English would s*** a lot more than it does. :lol:

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 05 Feb 2011, 00:07

Trouble Ahead for Force India

People wonder why I don't like Joe Saward, but then he puts out crap like this. He's basically suggesting that Force India is likely to collapse because they let Liuzzi go. That might be a somewhat reasonable argument under normal conditions, but Saward has been president of the Tonio Liuzzi fan club for a while now, and he often talks Liuzzi up or pushes blame for his mistakes. And reading the post, it's quite clear that he is upset Liuzzi may not be in Formula 1 anymore (though if Liuzzi gets the second Hispania seat, watch him talk them up). That, too, I can understand; we all get passionate about our favourite driver or a certain topic from time to time. However, Saward has crossed a line here, letting his personal preference for Liuzzi dictate his actions as a journalist. He's basically built and entire (flimsy) case around the idea that Liuzzi leaving the sport is a bad thing.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 05 Feb 2011, 05:00

Captain Hammer wrote:Trouble Ahead for Force India

People wonder why I don't like Joe Saward, but then he puts out crap like this. He's basically suggesting that Force India is likely to collapse because they let Liuzzi go. That might be a somewhat reasonable argument under normal conditions, but Saward has been president of the Tonio Liuzzi fan club for a while now, and he often talks Liuzzi up or pushes blame for his mistakes. And reading the post, it's quite clear that he is upset Liuzzi may not be in Formula 1 anymore (though if Liuzzi gets the second Hispania seat, watch him talk them up). That, too, I can understand; we all get passionate about our favourite driver or a certain topic from time to time. However, Saward has crossed a line here, letting his personal preference for Liuzzi dictate his actions as a journalist. He's basically built and entire (flimsy) case around the idea that Liuzzi leaving the sport is a bad thing.

I'm definitely in your boat on this one. I mean, holy crap. He's so far off base he could get picked off by Jamie Moyer.

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 05 Feb 2011, 12:54

Yeah, I don't know who that is. But if ever I needed a reason not to read Saward's blog ever again, this is it.

watka · Post by **watka** » 05 Feb 2011, 19:01

Captain Hammer wrote:Yeah, I don't know who that is. But if ever I needed a reason not to read Saward's blog ever again, this is it.

He's basically suggesting that Liuzzi should pull an Andy Soucek and get the cars banged up in Bahrain. Fortunately, I think Tonio is sensible enough to not think of such a thing.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 05 Feb 2011, 20:13

I think the article only says that Force India is acting very wrongly for replacing Liuzzi with di Resta, and that Liuzzi can take the judicial way to sue the team for breach of contract or something like that so they will pay him a hefty compensation. But at no point does it say that Force India will go down because of this. At any rate, if that wasn't an opinion article, calling the team stupid for their decision was horribly wrong. You can be a fan of a driver, but the evidence can be denied: no matter that he was loyal to the team or anything of that sort; if he got the drive, then his job was to perform well enough to retain his seat or score a drive with a better team. Where he was when Sutil was scoring in all races by mid-season and qualifying on the brink of or on Q3? It seems a bit like if he was blaming the team of perjudicating Liuzzi's performances.

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 05 Feb 2011, 21:45

watka wrote:He's basically suggesting that Liuzzi should pull an Andy Soucek and get the cars banged up in Bahrain. Fortunately, I think Tonio is sensible enough to not think of such a thing.

I know what he's suggesting. I just don't know who Jamie Moyer is/

Ferrim · Post by **Ferrim** » 05 Feb 2011, 23:16

That article is a true gem.

Firstly, he says about Liuzzi's season: "This is a very stupid move as it will, in effect, destroy the F1 career of Tonio Liuzzi. One can argue about Liuzzi’s ultimate talent, but there is no argument that he has done a decent job for the team."

This is what he had to say about Pedro de la Rosa: "There is little doubt that De la Rosa’s performances this year have been disappointing." http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2010/09/ ... for-pedro/

I can see how you can say that PDLR was disappointing. But how was Liuzzi's job "decent" then?

And a bit later he says: "None other than Fernando Alonso has said on the record that Liuzzi is “a major talent”". For Christ's sake. Everyone knows that Saward has, at the very least, a very strong dislike of Alonso. It makes me laugh that suddenly he becomes an authorised opinion, only because it's about Liuzzi. :mrgreen:

Myrvold · Post by **Myrvold** » 06 Feb 2011, 00:02

Well, this is his personal blog. I mean, if I had written a personal blog, i guess most of you had puked about my Villeneuve-love as well. However, in discussions or "official" writing, I tend to keep fairly neutral, even regarding him.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 06 Feb 2011, 00:36

Captain Hammer wrote:
watka wrote:He's basically suggesting that Liuzzi should pull an Andy Soucek and get the cars banged up in Bahrain. Fortunately, I think Tonio is sensible enough to not think of such a thing.

I know what he's suggesting. I just don't know who Jamie Moyer is/

Baseball player. Notoriously slow thrower.

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 06 Feb 2011, 04:12

Ferrim wrote:"This is a very stupid move as it will, in effect, destroy the F1 career of Tonio Liuzzi. One can argue about Liuzzi’s ultimate talent, but there is no argument that he has done a decent job for the team."

What I want to know is why a "decent" job is good enough for Liuzzi when perfection is expected to everyone else.

I also like the way Saward suggests drivers will rally to Liuzzi to protect their contracts in future. They didn't do it to Jenson Button and they didn't do it to Kimi Raikkonen - both of whom were in similar situations; Button wanted to go to Williams, but BAR enforced their option on him, whilst Raikkonen was bought out by Ferrari - and yet Saward expects Liuzzi will become a rallying point for other drivers.

Myrvold wrote:Well, this is his personal blog. I mean, if I had written a personal blog, i guess most of you had puked about my Villeneuve-love as well. However, in discussions or "official" writing, I tend to keep fairly neutral, even regarding him.

I understand that, but Saward presents the article as being factual when it is completely based on his opinion. That's a big no-no for any journalist in any medium. He really ought to know better than that.

thehemogoblin wrote:Baseball player. Notoriously slow thrower.

That explains why I don't know who he is.

baddriving50 · Post by **baddriving50** » 06 Feb 2011, 07:15

thehemogoblin wrote:
Captain Hammer wrote:
watka wrote:He's basically suggesting that Liuzzi should pull an Andy Soucek and get the cars banged up in Bahrain. Fortunately, I think Tonio is sensible enough to not think of such a thing.

I know what he's suggesting. I just don't know who Jamie Moyer is/

Baseball player. Notoriously slow thrower.

And the reason why my username has the number 50 at the end of it. 8-)

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 07 Feb 2011, 12:08

Well, it is his blog so he can do anything he wants with his posts. The thing is, from now on, I cannot read another Joe Saward article without judging if the guy is being biased or not. And I bet he doesn't care. Besides, isn't what journalists do these days? To manipulate news and events to their liking? Aside from writing crap most of the times? Also, since he has many readers, it is irrelevant for him to lose a few.

What is hilarious is that he looks like planning to bad mouth Force India in his blog every time he can just as a retaliation. Just like a little girl. I bet FI don't care either...

Mouthy316 · Post by **Mouthy316** » 07 Feb 2011, 12:37

Hey guys just remember,
"Joe Saward has been writing about Formula 1 races since 1988. He has not missed one since..."

That must make his word gospel, No? :lol:

fjackdaw · Post by **fjackdaw** » 07 Feb 2011, 13:09

There was an article in F1 Racing a few years back about Tora Takagi, criticising him as being the driver who kept his foot on the accelerator at Spa '98 and slammed into the back of the melee. It was actually Ricardo Rossett. Oops.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 07 Feb 2011, 19:10

http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ft12590.html

Clip from that article (sorry, being straight copy/paste the name gets mentioned)

However, be assured that even the most wizened of hacks still make mistakes. The doyen of the British press corps, Alan Henry, courageously went down to Minardi to interview Zsolt Baumgartner. The driver was very helpful and very polite and it was not until the third question that he felt obliged to explain to the robust Member of Her Majesty's Press that, as an Italian, his knowledge of Hungarian politics was a little sketchy but that he, Gianmaria Bruni, would be happy to track down Zsolt so that AH would get everything he wanted.

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 07 Feb 2011, 19:14

Bleu wrote:http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ft12590.html

Clip from that article (sorry, being straight copy/paste the name gets mentioned)

However, be assured that even the most wizened of hacks still make mistakes. The doyen of the British press corps, Alan Henry, courageously went down to Minardi to interview HWNSNBM. The driver was very helpful and very polite and it was not until the third question that he felt obliged to explain to the robust Member of Her Majesty's Press that, as an Italian, his knowledge of Hungarian politics was a little sketchy but that he, Gianmaria Bruni, would be happy to track down HWNSNBM so that AH would get everything he wanted.

Fixed.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 08 Feb 2011, 07:29

baddriving50 wrote:
thehemogoblin wrote:
Captain Hammer wrote:I know what he's suggesting. I just don't know who Jamie Moyer is/

Baseball player. Notoriously slow thrower.

And the reason why my username has the number 50 at the end of it.

Dude, I didn't know you were a fan of Digger Phelps' son in law.

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 08 Feb 2011, 13:03

He's at it again. Joe Saward is now blowing the Liuzzi trumpet, hailing him as the perfect match for Renault in Kubica's absence.

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 08 Feb 2011, 13:31

Captain Hammer wrote:He's at it again. Joe Saward is now blowing the Liuzzi trumpet, hailing him as the perfect match for Renault in Kubica's absence.

He has a point on this one. An available driver, who drove in F1 recently, that is better and more experienced than Liuzzi, at this stage, only Nick Heidfeld.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 08 Feb 2011, 16:35

DanielPT wrote:
Captain Hammer wrote:He's at it again. Joe Saward is now blowing the Liuzzi trumpet, hailing him as the perfect match for Renault in Kubica's absence.

He has a point on this one. An available driver, who drove in F1 recently, that is better and more experienced than Liuzzi, at this stage, only Nick Heidfeld.

But why would anyone pick Liuzzi, who has shown some flashes of potential but underperformed 90% of the time, over the definition of consistency that is Nick Heidfeld?

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 08 Feb 2011, 16:49

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:
DanielPT wrote:
Captain Hammer wrote:He's at it again. Joe Saward is now blowing the Liuzzi trumpet, hailing him as the perfect match for Renault in Kubica's absence.

He has a point on this one. An available driver, who drove in F1 recently, that is better and more experienced than Liuzzi, at this stage, only Nick Heidfeld.

But why would anyone pick Liuzzi, who has shown some flashes of potential but underperformed 90% of the time, over the definition of consistency that is Nick Heidfeld?

I think that Liuzzi could bring in some cash while Heidfeld can't. Besides, if that definition of consistency was reasonably rated in F1, Heidfeld would probably have a drive by now...

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 08 Feb 2011, 18:18

DanielPT wrote:
BlindCaveSalamander wrote:
DanielPT wrote:He has a point on this one. An available driver, who drove in F1 recently, that is better and more experienced than Liuzzi, at this stage, only Nick Heidfeld.

But why would anyone pick Liuzzi, who has shown some flashes of potential but underperformed 90% of the time, over the definition of consistency that is Nick Heidfeld?

I think that Liuzzi could bring in some cash while Heidfeld can't. Besides, if that definition of consistency was reasonably rated in F1, Heidfeld would probably have a drive by now...

This has been a quiet silly season, though, most drivers that have been dumped by teams have already had a replacement lined up, such as Di Resta replacing Liuzzi, Perez replacing Heidfeld, and Maldonado replacing Hulkenberg. Plus, it doesn't matter if Liuzzi can bring any money, they already have Petrov, and what Renault needs is a solid, dependable driver to provide some good feedback. Liuzzi is anything but solid and dependable.

Not that that matters though, since the seat is clearly Ho-Pin Tung's.

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 08 Feb 2011, 18:28

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:Not that that matters though, since the seat is clearly Ho-Pin Tung's.

Agreed!

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 08 Feb 2011, 22:00

DanielPT wrote:He has a point on this one. An available driver, who drove in F1 recently, that is better and more experienced than Liuzzi, at this stage, only Nick Heidfeld.

Except that Liuzzi has hardly done enough to justify an upgrade to a Renault.

Anyway, Eric Boullier has said it's a chocie between Senna, Heidfeld and Liuzzi. I hope Liuzzi doesn't get it, if only to shut Saward up.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 09 Feb 2011, 16:54

If I was Eric Bouiller, I'd go with Nick Heidfeld. He'll be very useful to help develop the car further without Kubica, and his pace is still good enough.

Cynon · Post by **Cynon** » 09 Feb 2011, 17:16

fjackdaw wrote:There was an article in F1 Racing a few years back about Tora Takagi, criticising him as being the driver who kept his foot on the accelerator at Spa '98 and slammed into the back of the melee. It was actually Ricardo Rossett. Oops.

Was that written before or after the 2001 Toronto Champ Car race??

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 09 Feb 2011, 17:29

Cynon wrote:
fjackdaw wrote:There was an article in F1 Racing a few years back about Tora Takagi, criticising him as being the driver who kept his foot on the accelerator at Spa '98 and slammed into the back of the melee. It was actually Ricardo Rossett. Oops.

Was that written before or after the 2001 Toronto Champ Car race.

baddriving50 · Post by **baddriving50** » 12 Feb 2011, 05:37

thehemogoblin wrote:
baddriving50 wrote:
thehemogoblin wrote:Baseball player. Notoriously slow thrower.

And the reason why my username has the number 50 at the end of it.

Dude, I didn't know you were a fan of Digger Phelps' son in law.

How that came about is a long and unbelievably nonsensical story, but somehow I have enough pics and whatnot to back it up.

Paul Hayes · Post by **Paul Hayes** » 17 Feb 2011, 12:20

This needs preserving for posterity before someone fixes it. Who the hell let this go online?

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/89525

A decision on whether the pre-season Bahrain test goes ahead could well be made on Friday, with sources revealing to AUTOSPORT that teams are due to meet in Barcelona for a scheduled get-together of FOTA's Sporting Working Regulation Group.

AUTOSPORT understands the Bahrain test stuff will be discussed in the Friday meeting.

P_Friesacher · Post by **P_Friesacher** » 18 Feb 2011, 01:22

Jean Todt wrote:There has been some movement in Bahrain. I understand things are improving and we have to wait.

(on http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/89525)

Granted - that is a way of looking at it...

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 19 Feb 2011, 02:55

Paul Hayes wrote:This needs preserving for posterity before someone fixes it. Who the hell let this go online?

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/89525

A decision on whether the pre-season Bahrain test goes ahead could well be made on Friday, with sources revealing to AUTOSPORT that teams are due to meet in Barcelona for a scheduled get-together of FOTA's Sporting Working Regulation Group.

AUTOSPORT understands the Bahrain test stuff will be discussed in the Friday meeting.

That must have broken so quickly that no editor had time to look at it. It happens sometimes, especially when the publication at fault is trying to break major news ahead of other websites.

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 23 Mar 2011, 03:18

The entire season preview at Formula1.com is pretty poor. It appears to have been written by Joe Saward (there is no byline), because it seriously plays up the chances of Tonio Liuzzi. It contains the following gems:

On Renault replacing Kubica with Heidfeld:

That said, the German is a safe pair of hands, but one can’t help wonder whether the team would have been better off with Vitantonio Liuzzi, whom Kubica recommended.

Heidfeld has the credentials to develop a car. Liuzzi doesn't. A lot of Renault's winter progress will be down to Heidfeld's input, which Liuzzi would not have been able to offer, and thus the car would likely lack the speed it has now.

On Force India's 2011 driver roster:

Adrian Sutil stays for another year, after plans to have him replace Felipe Massa at Ferrari fell apart in the aftermath of last year’s team orders argument.

I've searched the entire internet (yes, I can do that), and the only mention of a Sutil-Ferrari deal is a Twitter update from Jonathan Legard that is overtly sceptical of it. But if Massa had replaced de la Rosa at Sauber to make way for Sutil going to Ferrari ... you guessed it, Liuzzi's seat at Force India would have been safe!

On Toro Rosso's chances this year:

Meanwhile, Buemi and Alguersuari will be looking over their shoulders in the first half of the season as World Series by Renault racer Daniel Ricciardo is waiting for the chance to step into one of their seats at the midpoint.

Toro Rosso have repeatedly denied that Ricciardo has been guaranteed a race seat at some point in 2011. But the important thing to note here is that the direct implication of this sentence is that Alguersuari and Buemi will be too concerned about Ricciardo's presence to be able to produce consistent results, thus keeping them at the tail of the grid.

On Fernandes-Lotus' 2011 campaign:

Reliability issues in testing, however, will be an early concern.

This is about the only thing the author has written that is actually relevant to their chances. Most of the stuff is about the court case against Group Lotus and the Renault engine deal. Otherwise, he goes out of his way to mention reliability issues.

On the subject of Virgin:

the early signs are that the latest car from Nick Wirth is some way off the pace. Glock, the tough German racer who is recovering from a recent appendectomy, admits that they are some way off realising their early season targets.

In just about everything they have said this year, Virgin have highlighted their focus on reliability. It doesn't get mentioned once here; instead, the author downplays their position. Secondly, he also implies that Glock will not be 100% because of his surgery, but he is expected to be fully recovered in time for Melbourne.

And here's the kicker - the detail about Hispania:

However, the new car comes from respected F1 designer Geoff Willis of BAR and Red Bull fame

Except that the F111 is clearly based on the F110. The author makes a big deal about Willis' presence in the team espite the fact that not much has changed. In fact, the insinuation of this statement is that Hispania's failure to test and their speed defecit will be completely negated by Willis.

opting for Force India refugee Tonio Liuzzi is clear indication that Kolles values speed, experience and technical ability over other ‘renta-drivers’ potential budgets.

The most overtly pro-Liuzzi statement in the whole thing. Liuzzi was consistently beaten by Sutil, has less than 18 months' recent experience behind the wheel and has not shown any outstanding technical proficiency like, say, Rubens Barrichello or Michael Schumacher.

Jesus, Joe. Maybe you should have shut your blog down when you had the chance.

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 23 Mar 2011, 09:38

Captain Hammer wrote:The entire season preview at Formula1.com is pretty poor. It appears to have been written by Joe Saward (there is no byline), because it seriously plays up the chances of Tonio Liuzzi. It contains the following gems:

On Renault replacing Kubica with Heidfeld:
That said, the German is a safe pair of hands, but one can’t help wonder whether the team would have been better off with Vitantonio Liuzzi, whom Kubica recommended.

WTF, The same Heidfeld who beat Kubica in 2009 worse then a Liuzzi who was curb stomped by Sutil? what are they on?!?!

You would of thought the official website would be neutral and free of bias, standards there are really going down hill. (even if I think the problems you raised about Toro Rosso, Fondmetal Team Malaysia and Virgin were nitpicking!)

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 23 Mar 2011, 10:31

Captain Hammer wrote:The entire season preview at Formula1.com is pretty poor. It appears to have been written by Joe Saward (there is no byline), because it seriously plays up the chances of Tonio Liuzzi. It contains the following gems:

On Renault replacing Kubica with Heidfeld:
That said, the German is a safe pair of hands, but one can’t help wonder whether the team would have been better off with Vitantonio Liuzzi, whom Kubica recommended.

Heidfeld has the credentials to develop a car. Liuzzi doesn't. A lot of Renault's winter progress will be down to Heidfeld's input, which Liuzzi would not have been able to offer, and thus the car would likely lack the speed it has now.

On Force India's 2011 driver roster:
Adrian Sutil stays for another year, after plans to have him replace Felipe Massa at Ferrari fell apart in the aftermath of last year’s team orders argument.

I've searched the entire internet (yes, I can do that), and the only mention of a Sutil-Ferrari deal is a Twitter update from Jonathan Legard that is overtly sceptical of it. But if Massa had replaced de la Rosa at Sauber to make way for Sutil going to Ferrari ... you guessed it, Liuzzi's seat at Force India would have been safe!

On Toro Rosso's chances this year:
Meanwhile, Buemi and Alguersuari will be looking over their shoulders in the first half of the season as World Series by Renault racer Daniel Ricciardo is waiting for the chance to step into one of their seats at the midpoint.

Toro Rosso have repeatedly denied that Ricciardo has been guaranteed a race seat at some point in 2011. But the important thing to note here is that the direct implication of this sentence is that Alguersuari and Buemi will be too concerned about Ricciardo's presence to be able to produce consistent results, thus keeping them at the tail of the grid.

On Fernandes-Lotus' 2011 campaign:
Reliability issues in testing, however, will be an early concern.

This is about the only thing the author has written that is actually relevant to their chances. Most of the stuff is about the court case against Group Lotus and the Renault engine deal. Otherwise, he goes out of his way to mention reliability issues.

On the subject of Virgin:
the early signs are that the latest car from Nick Wirth is some way off the pace. Glock, the tough German racer who is recovering from a recent appendectomy, admits that they are some way off realising their early season targets.

In just about everything they have said this year, Virgin have highlighted their focus on reliability. It doesn't get mentioned once here; instead, the author downplays their position. Secondly, he also implies that Glock will not be 100% because of his surgery, but he is expected to be fully recovered in time for Melbourne.

And here's the kicker - the detail about Hispania:
However, the new car comes from respected F1 designer Geoff Willis of BAR and Red Bull fame

Except that the F111 is clearly based on the F110. The author makes a big deal about Willis' presence in the team espite the fact that not much has changed. In fact, the insinuation of this statement is that Hispania's failure to test and their speed defecit will be completely negated by Willis.

opting for Force India refugee Tonio Liuzzi is clear indication that Kolles values speed, experience and technical ability over other ‘renta-drivers’ potential budgets.

The most overtly pro-Liuzzi statement in the whole thing. Liuzzi was consistently beaten by Sutil, has less than 18 months' recent experience behind the wheel and has not shown any outstanding technical proficiency like, say, Rubens Barrichello or Michael Schumacher.

Jesus, Joe. Maybe you should have shut your blog down when you had the chance.

It is a bit of a theory saying Saward wrote the preview. It just shows that Liuzzi is kind of loved in the world of Formula 1. About the preview, and the whole site, for a long time they've been poor with heavily biased news and lack of content. Only the ticket sale part is useful. Internet and Formula 1 is a cold relationship, at best.

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 23 Mar 2011, 22:31

Getting a bit paranoid there Cap'n, methinks.