Different Views: Disconnected jottings from the last week- Roland.
As we settle down into the motorsport season now, and look forward to the return of MotoGP which will hopefully provide relief from the soporific on-track spectacle of F1, I’ve gone through my scribblings of the last week and extracted some worthy of note.
Whilst researching the various online resources available to bring myself reasonably up to speed for the season opening MotoGP event in Qatar, I came across this George Orwell quotation in a typically well written piece by Mat Oxley; Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.
I couldn’t think of a better phrase than this to summarise so much of what is being said and published these days around Supercars and the Supercars Championship. People who call themselves journalists being shown to be nothing of the kind, and those who dare to seek, and publish, the truth being chastised for doing so. If all those who speak off the record and behind closed doors were to actually say what they think of the direction the series is taking at the moment, then change really would happen.
Anyway, moving on… and back to that first F1 Grand Prix of the year in Bahrain. It was a snooze fest unfortunately and, I suspect, much of the blame can be laid once again at having to manage tyre life to an extreme level on a very high-degradation surface. No one in F1 is allowed to criticise the tyres (including, it seems, all those journalists with permanent passes) but, behind closed doors, teams and drivers remain scathing in their assessment of them.
