Comments on: A breath of fresh air from F1 Racing

By: Carey Roberts

Carey Roberts — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:28:19 +0000

You have some serious hate for Lewis , he is a top level competitor in
F1 thats it. what your real problem?

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Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:56:15 +0000

[...] the time being – at the very least I want to give new editor Hans Seeberg a fair chance (even if, as Doctorvee points out, he’s come from one of those ‘porn for cowards’ weekly lads’ mags). But I [...]

By: peterg

peterg — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:55:37 +0000

Matt Bishop? The same Matt Bishop who has been appointed Group Head of Communications and Public Relations?……………..read spin doctor to the British Press. God Help us!! The guy gave up serious motorsport journalism several years ago, he is the equivalent of a vacuum cleaner, sucking up snipits of info from the paddock & then dumping the lot on an editorial page. I wonder how much Ron is paying him to sell his soul? May a great pox be upon his house!

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:21:58 +0000

But they have also obtained the services of a Mr Bradley Lord who did absolute wonders for Renault and is a man with a sensible head on his shoulders.

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F1 blogs review: Champ Car and IRL merge — F1 blog from F1Fanatic — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:09:04 +0000

[...] A breath of fresh air from F1 Racing – Doctorvee likes the editorial style of F1 Racing’s interim editor but is worried about the background of the new man in charge. [...]

By: Ponzonha

Ponzonha — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:22:30 +0000

Ahhh the 21st century! What a sad time for magazines and alikes.
I totally agree with your opinion on the dead tree vs the internet dilema. I fill my needs of info in the internet, reading professional websites and blogs like yours. Nothing easier than a RSS feed and a little bit of time.
While it is true that Alonso’s behaviour with the press is faultless, I think it is more because he does not like to talk much. You can’t imagine how many people here in Spain would like him to be more… “charismatic”. Anyway, I prefer his style, I am tired of Montoya and the like…

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:40:11 +0000

I must admit that I flicked through this month’s magazine in Smith’s the other day and was more impressed by it than by the issues which had preceded it.

It wasn’t enough to tempt me back though, in fact I managed to read all I wanted to in the 10 minutes I was stood in the newsagents!

I will keep an eye on it though, and see how it goes – if I felt it worthwhile and worth the money then I wouldn’t have anything against renewing my subscription, just not with the magazine as it is at the moment.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:20:07 +0000

I agree in that I don’t want to see F1 Racing turn into Nuts overnight – but I wouldn’t make the assumption that an editor automatically carries the editorial style of his former publication with him.

A good editor is sensitive to the interests, desires and demand of their readers and if the new hire is a good one I expect he’ll try to balance things out between the commercial demand to stick Hamilton on the cover all the time (after all, he does sell magazines) but not saturate the magazine with Hamilton the way it has been of late.

To those who are deserting F1 Racing I’d point them in the direction of the relaunched Motorsport magazine which has returned to its original brief of covering contemporary racing as well as older stuff, and has nabbed two of Autosport’s best including Nigel Roebuck, who I interviewed the other day for my own site (sorry for the plug I just sort of wandered into it!)