Comments on: Slow news year? Perhaps we need Max Mosley back…

By: Journeyer

Journeyer — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:49:08 +0000

JZ :
Well, now that you’ve said it… Cue major controversy in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…

You asked for it? You got it! Cue Schumacher, Alonso, and a messed-up SC regulation.

By: Gavin Brown (RubberGoat)

Gavin Brown (RubberGoat) — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:56:07 +0000

Funny, I noticed this on my blog too. I posted my usual race weekend posts for the Malaysian Grand Prix a week late because I was on holiday, yet my site visitor numbers were still OK.

Yet I posted the Barcelona posts as soon as possible this weekend and my site visits have dropped under half. Interestingly, a lot of the incoming links from my plugs on the AUTOSPORT and Planet-F1 fora have dropped off too, suggesting that people aren’t visiting and wanting to talk about the race this weekend.

F1 faces something worse than love or hate, it has a crisis of indifference…

By: Stuart C

Stuart C — Tue, 11 May 2010 06:26:13 +0000

@mr. c.

the cynic in me always said he must have been more involved with “team coughlan” than was let on at the time.

Tsk, tsk. Beware drawing a straight line between two points...

By: Jackie

Jackie — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:36:31 +0000

Haha, excellent stuff, particularly thr last line. There are far too many who love to have their fill from that “all you can eat” buffet trough.

By: Steven Roy

Steven Roy — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:35:19 +0000

There is a very easy solution to the lack of news coverage between races. The FIA need to sort the on track product. If the racing was really good and racing cars could actually race there would be a constant supply of information resulting from that. Of course since actual racing is not road relevant we are stuck with the Barcelona traffic jam events.

The people running F1 need to get it into their heads that F1 is not and never has been in any way road relevant. Or if they are going to persist with the fallacy take off the parts of the car that are not road relevant like the wings and diffuser which by sheer co-incidence allow cars to run more closely together and give us proper racing which would create a constant stream of controversy.

By: mr. c.

mr. c. — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:18:58 +0000

He and his Missus stopped off for lunch at a tiny port and sauntered into a restaurant in their flip-flops and shorts. Imagine their surprise when they saw Mike Coughlan and Nigel Stepney there, dressed in suits, utterly failing to lunch discreetly.

gazza? that seems like a massive coincidence. the cynic in me always said he must have been more involved with “team coughlan” than was let on at the time.

if unemployed, why was he sailing between two f1 venues anyhow?

By: Stuart C

Stuart C — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:08:07 +0000

@JZ

Well, now that you’ve said it… Cue major controversy in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…

Funny you should say that. It was just three years ago, when the Spanish and Monaco GPs were three weeks apart, that a temporarily unemployed F1 techie was sailing his yacht very slowly up the coast between the two venues. He and his Missus stopped off for lunch at a tiny port and sauntered into a restaurant in their flip-flops and shorts. Imagine their surprise when they saw Mike Coughlan and Nigel Stepney there, dressed in suits, utterly failing to lunch discreetly. A scandal was born...

By: JZ

JZ — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:34:50 +0000

“For pretty much the first time since Formula 1 slipped into an internet-enabled 24-hour news cycle we’re missing the kind of long-running story that keeps readers happy when they return to the news trough every day.”

Well, now that you’ve said it… Cue major controversy in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…

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