In-Car Insights: Edd and Jon review their first day in the Canadian GP paddock
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What were Edd and Jon's first impressions of the Canadian GP paddock?
Hello and welcome to In Car Insights here from the Canadian Grand Prix, the series where we chat over the day in some form of transport, usually a car. And we are in a car, aren't we, John?
Is it a car?
I'm not sure it's a car. It's a shuttle. It's not a minibus. It's very nice. Is it a big SUV?
SUV? I don't know what type it is. GMC? GMC?
Excellent. We are being very kindly driven by the excellent shuttle staff here at the Canadian Grand Prix, and that will allow us to chat a bit through the day. Plenty going on, John.
Angry Esteban Ockham was quite good. Yeah, it was quite interesting, because sometimes at media sessions, there's obviously a big talking point that erupts, but you need to be quite... clever in terms of when you ask it because sometimes it's better to ask a soft question warm them up and then go in for the more explosive stuff afterwards because otherwise they can defences can go up and what is the big story gets knocked back a bit but someone went in two footed tackle today straight into Esteban about The stories that had emerged about him potentially getting dropped mid-season and having this alleged fight with or dispute with Eyal Kamatsu in the Miami Grand Prix. And he came straight back, said it's all nonsense, it's bullshit, it's been made up.
He's spoken to Eyal, he doesn't understand where this talk of the dispute came from. They couldn't even figure out what it was based upon. um yeah it was quite amusing and he talked quite openly about it for as long as he wanted to um offered his perspective that yeah sure things haven't been fantastic this season but they're working through things talk of a a war going on inside the team is completely false and he was quite scathing of kind of media both publications and journalists, I think, who just happily run this stuff without checking it and then without being mindful of the consequences because writing that drives about to get sacked and the impact that has on sponsors, on families, on their own well-being is something that's not often appreciated.
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.
It is a trend that I've noticed in the media generally. Because obviously we check and we're scanning what's being reported with those sites that we go to that list every web story that there is going on. And you see this trend, there's a lot of publications now and it's come from social media that rather than a story happening and then you go and speak to the driver involved or the team boss involved or the team involved or checking to see it's true or not, the first response is just to write it and then probably add another 5% of topspin on it. So what starts out as an innocuous comment or something that's... theoretical or could happen three steps down the road is then translated into a different language and is stated as fact.
I have times where I look down at these aggregate sites of news stories and you'll see a headline that says F1 journalist says XXX which sounds quite dramatic. then you click on it and then you find out it's actually something that I've said in a race podcast that didn't say that at all and has been spun out of control or context or has just been made into a bit of drama.
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