I'm trying and failing to remember a time when talking to a driver that retired from the race in an incident didn't involve some irritating jabs and relaying of second-hand information to the driver (who's just gotten out of his car) to try and get him to say something inflammatory over whoever "took him out". They went to talk to Kobayashi and instead of just getting a decent explanation from a driver who's proven himself a God damn amazing quote machine and an excellent personality, all they/Lee could do was repeat "Button called you an idiot" over and over again. As if Coolmui Brobayashi is just gonna flip out and threaten to kill Button next race so we have something to talk about before India. NASCAR have great pit interviews once they get the sponsor namedropping out of the way, and usually the drivers say enough controversial stuff on their own for it to be entertaining. IndyCar kind of play softball but at least you still hear what happened/why an accident occurred. The best you can ever get out of an F1 driver in these interviews, the most you can hope for, is "I haven't seen a replay yet". This pit lane interview **** feels more and more with each passing race like the sort of high school she said this/she said that, let's stir up a cat fight bullshit, like each week they just try to push a little further whenever an incident takes a driver out of the race in the hopes someone will finally go nuts and say something crazy, so Lee Mackenzie can yell "DRAMABOMB!" into the microphone. What's next?
*Vettel smashes into Karthikeyan while cruising around to victory in India*
Ben: "And now we've waited 20 laps and most of you have forgotten who Sebastien Vettel even is since his accident happened so long ago in the race, let's go talk to Lee, who's found Sebastian Vettel.."
Lee: "Sebastian, Narain got on his radio and told his team you can shove your finger up your ass. What do you think about that?"
Vettel: "Uhm.. we had a good car today, and.."
Lee: "Narain also said he was round the Red Bull plant last night and had his way with both Kate and Kate's Dirty Sister. What do you say to that?"
Vettel: "..well, the guys did a good jo-"
Lee: "Sebastian, we have some of the HRT team radio for you to hear.."
*cut to obviously cobbled together Karthikeyan sound clips and picture of a tin can telephone string trailing out of the HRT pits and out onto the track*
Fake Narain: "BAAAAAAM! WHO'S THE CUCUMBER NOW, BITCH!?"
F1 pit lane interviews compared to other series
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Andrew Hope
, Oct 14 2012 22:07
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pingu666
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Posted 14 October 2012 - 22:15
loool @ the last bit 
but yeah, f1 press are lame :/
but yeah, f1 press are lame :/
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Posted 14 October 2012 - 23:02
You just made my day.*Vettel smashes into Karthikeyan while cruising around to victory in India*
Ben: "And now we've waited 20 laps and most of you have forgotten who Sebastien Vettel even is since his accident happened so long ago in the race, let's go talk to Lee, who's found Sebastian Vettel.."
Lee: "Sebastian, Narain got on his radio and told his team you can shove your finger up your ass. What do you think about that?"
Vettel: "Uhm.. we had a good car today, and.."
Lee: "Narain also said he was round the Red Bull plant last night and had his way with both Kate and Kate's Dirty Sister. What do you say to that?"
Vettel: "..well, the guys did a good jo-"
Lee: "Sebastian, we have some of the HRT team radio for you to hear.."
*cut to obviously cobbled together Karthikeyan sound clips and picture of a tin can telephone string trailing out of the HRT pits and out onto the track*
Fake Narain: "BAAAAAAM! WHO'S THE CUCUMBER NOW, BITCH!?"
The pitlane interviews over here this race weren't too bad, I thought. At least, I couldn't remember any stupid questions, so if that means they were good, then so be it.
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Andrew Hope
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Posted 15 October 2012 - 06:23
Yeah, but it's a shame that not being terrible is the exception to the rule. Giving credit for simply lacking negative qualities is never going to make pit lane interviews with drivers worth anything, and kind of contradicts the "F1 is a global sport that brings the world closer" vibe you're intended to get from some of the coverage. They should either just skip the pretense and any drivers that make contact on the track must then duel on the podium after the race. It would be brilliant to really know who among all these brave men we applaud so much actually has any guts, and would have the added bonus of making empty seats at top teams come about far more often.
If they don't want to go that far, then bin the whole idea altogether and take two drivers that had some disagreements over the sharing of some real estate on the track and handcuff them to each other until ten minutes before FP1 at the next race weekend, so they can sort out their issues together. We'd be able to see who's really a gentlemen and who is actually an entitled pleb off the track, and it would sure as hell add some extra spice to the last race of the year if they championship comes down to the wire.
If they don't want to go that far, then bin the whole idea altogether and take two drivers that had some disagreements over the sharing of some real estate on the track and handcuff them to each other until ten minutes before FP1 at the next race weekend, so they can sort out their issues together. We'd be able to see who's really a gentlemen and who is actually an entitled pleb off the track, and it would sure as hell add some extra spice to the last race of the year if they championship comes down to the wire.
