If you thought ITV on the box was bad...

[TheOriginalGT40]

18 out of the 21 news links on the ITV F1 homepage are Lewis related!!!

NOTE: Lewis did a fantastic job, great drive and not about to pick faults in his work ethics.

HOWEVER: The ITV F1 kiss Lewis' ass brigade HAS TO STOP. What about Nick's drive to second (oh it's the news link at the bottom!) What about Wurz getting it onto the podium for Williams (BTW they are a British team ITV, just in case you didn't fecking know!!!)nothing?

One link for the horrible crash with Kubica oh and a link for JV's music CD who's probably eating humble pie this morning

I think the F1 poll says it all really. Who was the driver of the day: twice as many people have said Sato over Lewis and I fully agree. Once again, not taking anything away from LH but he is in the best car right now and he lead from start to finish. However, Sato is racing for a team with whom 18 months ago didn't even exist and he was over taking Ferrari's a double world champion and more besides, what a driver he is, so why is he not in a leading team then? Looks like he's come of age.

But back to the main point of the thread, when will ITV realise that all this ass-licking is really pissing the real race fans off...

Edited by TheOriginalGT40 on Monday 11th June 12:43

[Marki]

Sato did good but can you honestly say he did better than LH

For gods sake you will be complaining about LH next year in the same way everyone was complaining about Schuy

[David_s]

Marki said:

Sato did good but can you honestly say he did better than LH

For gods sake you will be complaining about LH next year in the same way everyone was complaining about Schuy

I think Sato did better relative to what he had available. Hamilton drove a flawless race in the best car on the grid, Sato got more from his car than anyone believed possible by overtaking a Ferrari, a McLaren, the works Honda and finishing 6th. I'd give it to Sato, and that takes nothing away from Hamilton's drive.

[TheOriginalGT40]

Marki said:

Sato did good but can you honestly say he did better than LH

For gods sake you will be complaining about LH next year in the same way everyone was complaining about Schuy

You have not read my post have you?

I am not taking anything away from Lewis, my rant is at ITV NOT LEWIS. However, as the other guy says above, Sato was not driving a McLaren which is in a league of it's own, so relatively speaking I thought Sato was the man of the race - a stunning piece of driving by him.

JUST TO CONFIRM I LIKE LEWIS THIS IS NOT A RANT AT LEWIS

OK

[mchammer89]

Marki said:

Sato did good but can you honestly say he did better than LH

For gods sake you will be complaining about LH next year in the same way everyone was complaining about Schuy

Hamilton has the best car and finished 1st, is that a surprise? Not really. Sato has one of the worst cars and finished 6th (ahead of the best cars in the race), is that a surprise? Definitely.

[Marki]

frazer guest said:

BUT..... This cock sucking of LH by ITV and the British press as a whole is really starting to get nausiating.

Just wait until the Press turn on him

[Ahonen]

mchammer89 said:

Sato has one of the worst cars and finished 6th (ahead of the best cars in the race), is that a surprise? Definitely.

All this praising of Sato is very strange. He qualified 11th in last year's Honda, so the car isn't that bad, and he finished 6th. Good, but hardly brilliant.

Yet Heikki drove from last on the grid to 4th and is met with silence. Wurz, similarly, came from about 20th to finish 3rd. Arguably those were two far more praiseworthy drives that Sato's.

[StuMartin]

Marki said:

frazer guest said:

BUT..... This cock sucking of LH by ITV and the British press as a whole is really starting to get nausiating.

Just wait until the Press turn on him

This is the worry - if there's one thing the British press love more than building up a new hero...it's knocking them down again.

[TheOriginalGT40]

StuMartin said:

Marki said:

frazer guest said:

BUT..... This cock sucking of LH by ITV and the British press as a whole is really starting to get nausiating.

Just wait until the Press turn on him

This is the worry - if there's one thing the British press love more than building up a new hero...it's knocking them down again.

I can see it all now. LH will make an error out of character for him at the GB GP and post a DNF while Alonso will go on to win the race. The press next day will say that he'd been broken by his team mate and can't handle the pressure!!!

A real shame we have tabloids in this country, sometimes they are worse than Tony Blair!! and that's saying something...

[rubystone]

Ahonen said:

mchammer89 said:

Sato has one of the worst cars and finished 6th (ahead of the best cars in the race), is that a surprise? Definitely.

All this praising of Sato is very strange. He qualified 11th in last year's Honda, so the car isn't that bad, and he finished 6th. Good, but hardly brilliant.

Yet Heikki drove from last on the grid to 4th and is met with silence. Wurz, similarly, came from about 20th to finish 3rd. Arguably those were two far more praiseworthy drives that Sato's.

Spot on

[stevieb]

rubystone said:

Ahonen said:

mchammer89 said:

Sato has one of the worst cars and finished 6th (ahead of the best cars in the race), is that a surprise? Definitely.

All this praising of Sato is very strange. He qualified 11th in last year's Honda, so the car isn't that bad, and he finished 6th. Good, but hardly brilliant.

Yet Heikki drove from last on the grid to 4th and is met with silence. Wurz, similarly, came from about 20th to finish 3rd. Arguably those were two far more praiseworthy drives that Sato's.

Spot on

The williams and renault are good cars. In comparision the SuperAguri is not in a league with the renault or williams and you said it yourself its last years car with (admitidlywith a few developments.)

But the OP was stating that everything is relative, you would expect the bigger teams William, Mclaren, renault to be in the top half of the field fighting for the points, wher eyou would not expect this from Sato in a Aguri.

The ITV site seems very biased towards the british drivers the same can be said for the french press who always seem to report the french team.

Edited by stevieb on Monday 11th June 15:34

[Pradley]

Yeah - I am with the Sato brigade, driver of the day for me too!

His overtaking manovre (albiet with Alonso in a damaged car) was the first time in ages I have shouted at the TV during an F1 race!

[rubystone]

Sato's car is no dog - it has a good basis (it was designed by someone who knew about aero after all) and a friend of a friend who works in aero there says that the aero department is extremely strong and enthusiastic.

I'm not taking anything away from him, but it is true that Wurz and Kovailanen had good races too - and arguably, as you say, they are in good cars and thus the weight of expectation is heavier on them than on Sato.

[skinny]

i like lewis, i rate him very highly. it's just a shame that the media are stuffing him down our throats so much - we're bound to sick it up sooner or later! you can bet that as soon as he makes a mistake, they'll be all over him - is this the end of the wonder boy etc.

i don't think anyone has anything against the kid really, it's just the british media's w@nkfest over him that is so off-putting!

[AlexS]

Now if the poll was for TEAM of the day then yes the vote would go to Super Aguri. Excellent use of strategy to get Sato out on the best available tyre whilst those in front were hobbled by the super softs.

The Honda works team need to take notes, and maybe move a few key personel.

[stevieb]

rubystone said:

Sato's car is no dog - it has a good basis (it was designed by someone who knew about aero after all) and a friend of a friend who works in aero there says that the aero department is extremely strong and enthusiastic.

I'm not taking anything away from him, but it is true that Wurz and Kovailanen had good races too - and arguably, as you say, they are in good cars and thus the weight of expectation is heavier on them than on Sato.

Having a strong aero department is one thing but with compared to other established teams they are still younger and inexpereinced compared to the seasoned teams.

[AndrewD]

AlexS said:

Now if the poll was for TEAM of the day then yes the vote would go to Super Aguri. Excellent use of strategy to get Sato out on the best available tyre whilst those in front were hobbled by the super softs.

The Honda works team need to take notes, and maybe move a few key personel.

yep, Honda take note, the keystone cops'll be in the job market soon