Q: Can you run us through what happened with Lewis Hamilton? The closing speed seemed quite dramatic for cars coming out of a corner?
FA: Yes. On lap one, he touched me in Turn Four in the rear diffuser. And then on lap two he jumped over me on the straight. I don’t know what happened. I was flat out…the McLaren is quite quick on the straights.
Q. So you think he just made a mistake?
FA: No, I think we were running too close and for sure maybe he didn’t realise how close we were. He jumped into my rear wing. I am sure on the first couple of laps, if you are eighth or ninth, you try to recover places too quickly. Full Interview
Well, grin … I’d show you the clip from YouTube, but it’s since been deleted thanks to “copyright claim by Formula One Management”.
Here would be an excellent opportunity to point out that this sort of proprietary nonsense is precisely why F1’s elitist policy in regard to same said rights is hurting the sport — especially in terms of its ability to be profitable on a broad scale. (Hell … even on a narrow scale, lol … just because it’s exceptionally expensive to run, sponsor and/or travel with in order to be a participating spectator — doesn’t make it a “profitable motorsport”.)
Oh, how I could go on, but trying to convince Ecclestone to loosen the reigns on any damned aspect of anything he “owns” and therefore thinks will add to his already bloated coffers? Useless. Even if loosening the reigns would, in the long-term, build the sort of market every series on the planet envies of NASCAR … a motorsport shunned by open-wheel purists, and yet one which also out-performs all of them in ticket sales, broadcast numbers, product marketing, brand loyalty and profitability across varied demographic sectors … ahem …
Still … what a waste of virtual ink here, grin … it’s simply useless to make this argument until Ecclestone’s gone. (And Mosely is replaced by someone with whom anyone with a moral compass would want to do business, but … I digress … again, lol …)
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