Edd Straw

Plenty going on, John.

And, you know, Okamatsu later in the day was inevitably asked about it and he was extremely forthright as well.

He said the main problem is it's just a waste of time.

But he was he said he actually was quite keen on being an investigative journalist once.

So he understands how important it is to be well sourced and do things the right way.

which you didn't think had happened here.

It's a classic example of one of those stories that's kind of come out of nothing because you get these reports that are taken from other reports and it all originated from a podcast in Portuguese language where there was a legitimate talking point about Alcon's future of the team long term.

And then these kind of got spun up and translated and made harder and then combined with things that hadn't been mentioned at all about the bus stop in Miami, which it's still unclear exactly where that originated from as an idea.

It just shows how these things get out there and gather momentum and become a big deal, even though they're not really what they purport to be.

go to sources get it confirmed and get it right even if you're a day late two days late doesn't matter get it right rather than rush out and get something wrong yeah there's two things here firstly given that we are fortunate enough to be in the paddock and we like to say do the job properly there are people who aren't in the paddock who do the job properly as well not everybody

It is like this.

But anything we say or write or put in a video or whatever about a driver or a team boss or a team or whatever, anyone in the F1 paddock, we're going to be confronted with in a couple of weeks at the maximum.

And you could even get a phone call before.

So we have to stand by everything we say.

Whereas there's a lot of there are certain people out there who aren't on site.

And again, it's not just about being on site.

It's about the way you're doing it, who are kind of churning this stuff up.

And half the time you don't even know who they are.

and what these titles actually are and where it comes from.

So they're not subject to that.