F1 London Demo - Wednesday 12 July
Discussion
Sylvaforever said:
IN51GHT said:
Sylvaforever said:
LH is on holiday. Remember his interview from GP ....
I'm sure many of the drivers would have liked a break as they are little bit tired, but for LH to snub the British fans is disgusting, up until yesterday I was an LH fan, but no more.VB for F1 WDC.
On a more positive note, the phrase
"cobbled together in the last couple of days"
obviously skipped right over your cerebellum.
Everyone else managed it.
"Lewis Hamilton has risked incurring the wrath of Formula One’s owners, Liberty Media, after snubbing a major promotional event for the British Grand Prix at Trafalgar Square on Wednesday night in favour of a two-day holiday.
The timing by Hamilton, who posted pictures of himself partying on the Greek island of Mykonos, was especially awkward on the day that Silverstone officials triggered a break clause to end their hosting of the race in 2019. John Grant, chairman of the British Racing Drivers’ Club, hit out at a “crazy situation” that has allowed the country’s best-attended sporting event to become commercially unviable.
Liberty are understood to have told Hamilton that his presence for this evening’s parade of F1 cars through the capital, expected to be watched by a quarter of a million people, was required. But even as a triple world champion and one of only two British drivers on the grid, he appears to have placed his own needs above those of the sport.
Hamilton claimed, after a disappointing fourth-place finish in Austria last weekend, that his chances of catching championship leader Sebastian Vettel were receding and that he would take a break to refresh himself. That will be of little comfort to Liberty at a time when they are trying to galvanise broader interest in the Silverstone weekend around F1’s one British superstar."
Sylvaforever said:
IN51GHT said:
Sylvaforever said:
LH is on holiday. Remember his interview from GP ....
I'm sure many of the drivers would have liked a break as they are little bit tired, but for LH to snub the British fans is disgusting, up until yesterday I was an LH fan, but no more.VB for F1 WDC.
On a more positive note, the phrase
"cobbled together in the last couple of days"
obviously skipped right over your cerebellum.
Cobbled together in the hurried sense, yes it's been planned for a while but for security reasons the less people who knew about it the less chance off it getting out into the public domain thus less chance of a terrorist attack, hurried in the sense that barriers probably only started arriving on the same day, stages, TV, cabling, screens, team lorries all had to arrive on the day I'd imagine, unlike monaco where preparations start a month before, like I said for saying it was all thrown together in a day I don't think they did too bad, next time with a bit more planning I think it will be a whole lot better
REALIST123 said:
Sylvaforever said:
IN51GHT said:
Sylvaforever said:
LH is on holiday. Remember his interview from GP ....
I'm sure many of the drivers would have liked a break as they are little bit tired, but for LH to snub the British fans is disgusting, up until yesterday I was an LH fan, but no more.VB for F1 WDC.
On a more positive note, the phrase
"cobbled together in the last couple of days"
obviously skipped right over your cerebellum.
Everyone else managed it.
"Lewis Hamilton has risked incurring the wrath of Formula One’s owners, Liberty Media, after snubbing a major promotional event for the British Grand Prix at Trafalgar Square on Wednesday night in favour of a two-day holiday.
The timing by Hamilton, who posted pictures of himself partying on the Greek island of Mykonos, was especially awkward on the day that Silverstone officials triggered a break clause to end their hosting of the race in 2019. John Grant, chairman of the British Racing Drivers’ Club, hit out at a “crazy situation” that has allowed the country’s best-attended sporting event to become commercially unviable.
Liberty are understood to have told Hamilton that his presence for this evening’s parade of F1 cars through the capital, expected to be watched by a quarter of a million people, was required. But even as a triple world champion and one of only two British drivers on the grid, he appears to have placed his own needs above those of the sport.
Hamilton claimed, after a disappointing fourth-place finish in Austria last weekend, that his chances of catching championship leader Sebastian Vettel were receding and that he would take a break to refresh himself. That will be of little comfort to Liberty at a time when they are trying to galvanise broader interest in the Silverstone weekend around F1’s one British superstar."
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