you complain about benson mentioning lewis all the time,while doing exactly the same thing.infact most of you lot talk about lewis more than any other driver it seems. and benson was often bashed along with other members of the bbc team for constantly bashing lewis last season.and now all of a sudden they love him.you ppl make me laugh.most of you lot seem to be lewis haters,just because ppl are actually a fan of his,or because he gets talked about alot.well why cant you lot stop talking about him for a start?
I presume I've missed your point. Are you suggesting Benson should have mentioned Hamilton; or are you saying it's good that he wasn't mentioned; or are you (sarcastically?) congratulating him for not doing what you think he normally does? What is your point?
I swear i'm going to kill Benson, he just can't help himself http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/17124840 Instead of praising the Hulk for a good day's work, he drones on about loverman.
He really makes me chuckle. It's very cruel of us to spend our licence fee tormenting the poor soul, he must lie awake at night panicking about how many more permutations he can find for the same sentence.
Complete garbage his article is. How could he possibly compare Vettel vs Hamilton in a race sim, when McLaren were refuelling and using old tyres on their stints. What an idiot! If the BBC were clever, they would have Gary Anderson do the techical analysis.
Has anyone noticed the absence of Sarah Holt from the BBC site..? Nah, thought not. Small mercies and all that.
I have to say, as the BBC's chief F1 writer, Benson appears to be the product of an increasingly disinterested BBC. However, the man and the Corporation appear to be a good match: they both waffle without saying anything of substance. I've never much bothered reading his blog in any case; the comments in this thread and the direct responses say all that needs to be said about his uninformative contradictions.
Reading it is, as they say, losing 5 minutes of your life that you'll never get back. I realise he has to cater to the casual viewer as well as the fan but there's precious little insight and he tends to contradict himself from one blog to the next; often he just gets it plain wrong. But, as Genji points out, the comments are better than the blog: entertaining, educating and insightful - as the blog itself should be.
I guess he assumes he has new readers each day, so waffle repeated is just fine. Perhaps he is moonlighting, and is getting away with the same words in a different order has not been noticed by the Beeb.
Another entry into the long line of BBC fails: The BBC report on the HRT F112 - using an image of last years car
Looks like the BBC are starting to hire the same idiots who run the sun. Those guys got mixed up with Toro Rosso and RBR about five times last season and that's not also including the two seasons before that.
I did see that and thought the same thing. Also adding to the fail of reporting the news a day late. I thought Andrew Benson.. The BBCs 'Chief' F1 reporter had good contacts with HRT?
I've just come to the conclusion that there are more anti-Sky then Sky customers on their F1 website. Some guy slagged off Jenson and got negative voted by over a hundred lol and each topic only gets 5-6 different posters at one time so it must be anti Sky just down thumbing. http://www1.skysports.com/formula-1/news/24180/7573982/Button-Nothing-to-be-afraid-of-
Benson's "F1 Guide for beginners", I think will have most people suitably frothing at the mouth after a couple of paragraphs.
