F1 insight – Lewis Hamilton speaks April 2, 2009
Posted by richard in : What I learned today , trackbackFIA decisions are generally illogical, as the latest McLaren saga proves.
But, at least motorsport’s governing body is, in the process of further befuddling F1, taking fans a bit closer to the background action – by publishing a delicious insight on its website.
The lunacy of wrecking yet another race and making the sport look a laughing stock in front of the world yet again apart, the audio excerpt it’s just published is pretty intriguing.
It uncovers conversations between Lewis Hamilton and the team, during the closing stages of the Australian Grand Prix.
You have to admit, looked at from a single-minded, closed-opinion viewpoint, they’re pretty illuminating. But do they clear the situation up for race fans, never mind the general public? Do they show the common sense behind the FIA’s decision?
Not at all. And so commences another weekend’s F1-McLaren-FIA-Hamilton-gate.
My take? The FIA is barmy. It’s placed great weight on what Hamilton said – but, really, you can’t take as Gospel something a driver said immediately after a race. I wasn’t party to the post-race inquiry, but surely ‘someone keeping secrets’ shouldn’t be an issue?
Besides, didn’t Toyota decide not to appeal?
But whatever the actual rights and wrongs, look at it from all the new BBC viewers. Who may have sampled F1 for the first time. And, may now, be considering it a bit of a farce. In what other sport would this happen?
It’s not the last we’ve heard of it, though. Certainly, on that, I’m more sure than race goers thinking they’d seen a definitive result last weekend were.
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