Why? The money it cost to give him a car capable of winning the race was spent with the aim of getting those cans on camera. He won the race – why would he not want to reward his paymasters too? If anything, I think it’s an acknowledgement of the 600 odd staff back in MK whose efforts also helped him to victory, and whose jobs also depend on that Red Bull money.
P.S. I don’t think “ostentatiously” means what you think it means…
It’s just a very unnatural, distasteful way of selling a product. It makes Ricciardo look stupid, and the sport with him. It’s disrespectful to the ppl interviewing him, who are just there to give him the opportunity to sell his garbage.
He repaid his team and boss by getting the result; he’s a racer, not a prostitute. It really makes you question a guy’s integrity, bc you know he’s getting paid extra for that awful display.
Btw the sponsor name is already all over the cars and gear, and it’s on people’s lips dozens of times during a GP.
I can just about let it go. A wee bit of product placement is better than the American thing of rattling off the names of every sponsor on the car along with Mom and Dad and Jesus Christ.
At least Vettel shows up in the photo when Daniel wins, I remember Webber prefered to stay out many times. (But it’s funny that on this photo Vettel is looking somewhere else)
Talby (@maichael)
27th July 2014, 19:04
Ricciardo ostentatiously showing off his soda can whenever he has the opportunity is done in very bad taste, I have to say.
WH
27th July 2014, 19:40
Why? The money it cost to give him a car capable of winning the race was spent with the aim of getting those cans on camera. He won the race – why would he not want to reward his paymasters too? If anything, I think it’s an acknowledgement of the 600 odd staff back in MK whose efforts also helped him to victory, and whose jobs also depend on that Red Bull money.
P.S. I don’t think “ostentatiously” means what you think it means…
Talby (@maichael)
28th July 2014, 10:42
It’s just a very unnatural, distasteful way of selling a product. It makes Ricciardo look stupid, and the sport with him. It’s disrespectful to the ppl interviewing him, who are just there to give him the opportunity to sell his garbage.
He repaid his team and boss by getting the result; he’s a racer, not a prostitute. It really makes you question a guy’s integrity, bc you know he’s getting paid extra for that awful display.
Btw the sponsor name is already all over the cars and gear, and it’s on people’s lips dozens of times during a GP.
Ostentatious: intended to attract notice
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ostentatious
Spawinte (@spawinte)
27th July 2014, 23:06
I can just about let it go. A wee bit of product placement is better than the American thing of rattling off the names of every sponsor on the car along with Mom and Dad and Jesus Christ.
Eugen (@eugenius)
28th July 2014, 10:45
You need to sell expensive colored water to afford a couple of F1 teams. At least it’s not a tobacco company … it’s the next best thing. :)
N
27th July 2014, 19:46
Some amazing pictures there
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
27th July 2014, 20:51
Well done to the vertically-challenged photographer who took the Gutierrez shot.
Chris (@cgturbo)
28th July 2014, 1:22
In this instance, I believe the photographer was actually a mole digging up to ground level to find out what all the ruckus was about.
OmarR-Pepper (@)
27th July 2014, 21:19
At least Vettel shows up in the photo when Daniel wins, I remember Webber prefered to stay out many times.
(But it’s funny that on this photo Vettel is looking somewhere else)
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
29th July 2014, 15:12
@omarr-pepper Oh yeah – I hadn’t noticed he was in there!
mohamad (@hasanrazaghi)
28th July 2014, 1:26
Thanks for the photos
Their resolution was better than the other sites