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Crofty “hyping up” things is exactly the reason why the austrian duo Hausleitner+Wurz could become what is now probably the best race-coverage available (at least within the languages I understand). British coverage is consistently falling towards the extremely low standards of german RTL/Sky-coverage (and the fact that it can fall towards that for several years and still not be there shows how bad that is).
Now I’m not totally against showing excitement, but showing it (as Murray often did) is a completely different thing from artificially trying to create it. Besides creating unduly loudness in unfitting situations and a disturbing inflation of speaking loud and fast in normal every-race occurences, this difference is also apparent in the initial reaction to truely controversial incidents. When Senna crashed out Prost at the start in Suzuka, Murray’s first words were “this is fantastic!”. And he did that on other occasions, too, e.g. J. Villeneuve hitting the Wall of Champions early in the 97 canadian GP. Whereas now, when something happens, it’s “Oh no, drama, responsibility, implications, more drama, sadness”.
Let´s say “firm but legal”, or maybe “firm but usual”. Fair is such a vague term. I do believe Rosberg would/should have done the same if he was on the inside. However, if it wasn´t about the driver´s title between these two while feeling quite secure about the constructor´s, but a pair of teammates without a shot at WDC while the team still fights for positions (and thus, money) in the constructors table, the same move would/should not have been done.
Thanks @KeithCollantine
This site is the only F1-related site that didn´t disappoint me in their reaction to the accident.
I don´t think Irvine/Barrichello/Massa were initially signed up as number-two drivers, but as up- and coming young talents, that just at some point became number-two-drivers through their (compared to their teammates) inferior performances. The problem is, as soon as you have a teammate clearly beating you there is just no way of further promotion, you won´t get a number-one-seat in another top-team, you might not even get another top-team-seat ever. So everything that can happen after you leave is steps backwards, midfield-teams or backmarkers… the dream of becoming an F1-legend, a WDC on merit, that all guys dream who enter F1, is essentially over as soon as one becomes a number-two driver, so the choices are either retirement or just grab the money and the possibility to drive an F1-car as long as possible. Obviously most choose the latter.
I´m more puzzled by how long some teams hold on to their number-two drivers, carrying drivers that are constantly delivering sub-optimal performances instead of trying new talents for sometimes half a decade and more. As to my recognition, this trend started after 94 (when there was an arguable lack of top-drivers), DC being top-example with 11 years in top-teams without ever beating a teammate.
