The 2020 F1 Season
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Rack Kit
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Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
It’s an opportunity for the FAI to show some balls in a diplomatic way.Here we go...
Well unless they want to appear to be something other than supportive of Hamilton's beliefs they need to tread carefully.
If they fine him I suspect he'll consider the extra publicity well worth the money.
So for one set of photographs / video / streamed footage out of the past 7 seasons where they have won around 100 races, you think that they are going to find their financial investment null and void?
Eyebroughty
JohnC
I wonder how much those crashes and issues at this weekends GP must have cost in parts and time.
A lot of time and effort to sort out.
Triple headers are very tough for everyone involved and are made worse by crashes.
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
Wot, even the armourers?
A?
Bob McC
Living the life of Riley
12 drivers given warnings after the pile up.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/152129/twelve-drivers-given-warning-over-tuscan-gp-pileup
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/152129/twelve-drivers-given-warning-over-tuscan-gp-pileup
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
B, I'm an...
jwb5463
pfm Member
Of course not, but if i was paying X million a race to have my logo in prime position on his overalls, I'd be less than pleased for it to be deliberately covered up. (Which was my original point before Rack Kit decided that not being a fan of Lewis makes me a fully paid up member of the KKK.. )
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
People saying, all over the world, “I wonder what Petronas think about this?”
Great publicity. And they can just remain quiet.
Great publicity. And they can just remain quiet.
windhoek
The Phoolosopher
Considering the context in which it was covered up and for one day only, that's quite a statement, and I certainly wouldn't presume to think anyone at Petronas shares your point of view.
All look a bit dangerous and contrived for spectacle at times , looks like they are trying to spice it up at the risk of safety .
Formula 1 as it stands is not the place for this , even talk of reverse grids ! If viewers want this Touring cars deliver this with many methods of shaking up the running order
Formula 1 as it stands is not the place for this , even talk of reverse grids ! If viewers want this Touring cars deliver this with many methods of shaking up the running order
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
Not at all. It was just the way things happened. No need for conspiracy theories!
DuncanF
pfm Member
That's an interesting question. It also possibly puts Petronas in a position where they may not want to be, i.e. having to take/make a public position on the issue.
This Petronas thing is getting silly. Firstly Lewis has scored 109 podiums for Mercedes and that means that 108 times he has stood on the podium with the Petronas logo emblazoned across his overalls. On top of that he keeps winning and that keeps the Mercedes on the F1 pages of any publication online or otherwise and that in turn keeps the Petronas logo there too. On top of that I would imagine they will take the stance that they are proud to have their name associated with a global superstar who is standing up for human rights.
The whole argument is a non-argument and to keep going at it in this way does (as Rack Kit has pointed out) make you look like you are not entirely comfortable with BLM and the movement surrounding it. I'm not saying you are that way, just that you're making it easy to make yourself appear that way to others such as myself.
