Is it just me, or is the backpage photo in this morning's Times wrong?

It claims to show the moment the championship was decided, as Lewis streaks past Timo Glock's Toyota.

The caption states this is the moment in question.

But the car in question appears to me to by Jarno Trulli.

The left front tyre says 'JT' and it appears to be Jarno's helmet in the car. Can't quite read the name on the side though.

If I'm right this wouldn't be a moment of glory for the times, given the backpage is marking one of the greatest moments in British sporting history...

Unless Jarno and Timo swapped places for the race. The thick plottens...

Well Trulli has is a part expert at getting mugged on the last lap, just think France 2004...

Bernie was seen having a "word" in Jarno's ear on the startgrid!

Just to pour some (fresh!) oil on this ongoing little "Fuego"!!

Tony.

This should be fun

*gets tin hat*

Do you not know the first rule of journalism - "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story"

After all, you can always apologise later................................ Buried on about page 23 at the bottom left hand corner, in very small print.

I mean, it could be quite innocent, like an incorrectly captioned photo arriving from an agency.

But it's supposed to be depicting a pretty significant sporting moment.

Thought the subs might have caught it though...

Given the print deadline for a paper like that, and the delay in getting images from the race they most likely just took what was available and winged it.

That said I'd have cropped the photo a bit more and made the caption less specific.

I take your point, but it is a pretty historic back page.

A shame.

Its not just you, and as from now history will probably record that LH won the championship by squeezing inside Glock on the apex of Turn 1.

Newspaper of record? First draft of history?
Sadly, The Times really does seem to have fallen to the tabloid standard of "well, its just a picture to illustrate the story, you didn't think it was real, did you?"

Sorry, that's total rot.
They had LOTS of later photos on the inside (earlier printed) pages.

And the caption was utterly specific, present tense, Glock and last lap.
Error or wilful fiction, but it was no way due to the tightness of deadlines.

That was my point, the caption was far too specific to use the wrong photo.

And podium/garage shots are amongst the first to be sent over, it can be several hours before action shots come in.

I've seen shots of stills snappers with small aerials poking from the top of their cameras.

Do they use this to send shots back to the pressroom automatically?

I guess that most photographers were busy taking pictures of Massa crossing the finish line as a World Champion. Nobody wants to miss that shot, however no one would have thought that Lewis would manage to snatch it at the last corner.

I haven't seen a photo anywhere yet (of the major agencies at least) and not in any paper. Which is strange as someone got the shot of Hamilton in the same corner but on the victory lap.

A real shame, it was the moment of the season. Guess they can't be everywhere though, even on a short track like Interlagos.

I'd love to know how a photo agency plans to shoot a Grand Prix, how many staff they deploy, where they go on the circuit, how long they spend at each corner before moving on etc.