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DHCanary said:
Has anyone seen the article about the prospects of Mercedes this season? Despite the title, he talks about Hamilton before even considering the Mercedes.
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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?
 
BrightLampShade said:
His latest helping, if a little behind:

Ferrari admit there is 'room for improvement' on new car

Disappointed he didn't manage to shoe horn Hamilton into there somehow. He mentioned Alonso so he could have said "Alonso, who was once Hamilton's team mate"
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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?
 
Benson on Tuesday said:
Headline lap times in testing are a notoriously unreliable guide to form, as it is impossible to know the specifications in which the teams are running their cars.
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Benson on Wednesday said:
The presence of Hulkenberg and Perez as the fastest drivers - along with Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo in fifth place - underlines the difficulty of predicting form at the first race in Australia next month from headline lap times in testing.
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Benson on Thursday said:
To underline how unreliable testing is as an indicator of true form, the Venezuelan was 0.993 seconds clear of Michael Schumacher's Mercedes.
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Benson on Friday said:
Testing is a notoriously unreliable guide to form. That's because lap times are sensitive to tyres and fuel loads and it is impossible to know the specification in which the teams are running the cars.
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Benson later on Friday said:
As ever, the headline lap times were a poor guide to the order of the grid that can be expected in Melbourne at the first race in just three weeks' time.
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<laugh>

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. <cry>
 
genjigonzales said:
The comments on his latest blog are quite amusing. Poor man.
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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.
 
cosicave said:
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.
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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.
 
top headline on the bbc F1 page. Lewis Hamilton Answers your questions:

The 2008 world champion talks about the upcoming season, being star-struck by
Queen Latifah, and how he has dedicated a lot of time to improving his wing
mirrors to avoid the kind of crashes which dogged his campaign last season.
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wh...What?
 
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