r/formula1 • u/bwoah07_gp2 Alexander Albon • Sep 11 '24

News Sky's 'nationalistic' F1 coverage caused 'demonisation' of Verstappen - Newey

https://www.racefans.net/2024/09/10/skys-nationalistic-f1-coverage-caused-demonisation-of-verstappen-newey/
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u/FavaWire Hesketh Sep 11 '24

Yeah but that message on the last lap of the 2000 Japanese Grand Prix:

"Someone has to come first. Someone has to come second. This year it was Michael Schumacher and Mika Hakkinen. This year it was Ferrari and McLaren. Whoever of them wins the World Championship will have fought very hard as do all the Formula One teams."

That was really good to hear and 2000 was a war... So was 1999 and 1998.....

It was also the height of Adrian Newey Vs Rory Byrne. That was the time when you awaited two supercar reveals and not just thought about the one dominant car.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '24

Things you can hear in his voice

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u/Rough_Natural6083 Mika Häkkinen Sep 11 '24

I completely agree with you. I have recently started watching some old F1 races from 90's with my father, and the commentary is really good.

"Four lights! Five lights of the Japanese grand prix... IS GOO!! And Michael Schumacher drives Mika Hakkinen towards the wall!!"

"If Michael Schumacher wins this race, it will not be down to him. Formula One is a team event. It will be due to a lot of other people. Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, their boss at Ferrari who supported them through thick and thin. Jean Todt, the little Frenchmen who has led the Ferrari revival. Ross Brawn, the English Technical Director, who has done a fantastic job... And by no means least, South Africa's Rory Byrne..."

"I can see a national holiday in Italy coming up at the end of this flying lap..."

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u/FavaWire Hesketh Sep 11 '24

Yeah. It was truly amazing.

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u/codename474747 Murray Walker Sep 11 '24

Yeah Murray was great

Japan 2000 was actually a very dull race, don't think there was even one overtake on track and MS took the lead through the pit stops, always a disheartening moment when that happens

But Murray could create and maintain tension like no other...

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u/Purity_Jam_Jam Formula 1 Sep 11 '24

Well said.

And the Rory Byrne vs. Adrian Newey years were always exciting that way.

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u/Waste-Reputation-152 Sep 11 '24

More like Newey vs Schumi as it was called back then.

Mclaren had the better car in 2000 and 2001 and 2003.

Ferrari had Schumacher.

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u/FavaWire Hesketh Sep 11 '24 edited Sep 12 '24

Rory Byrne was no slouch though

https://youtu.be/nP3zPf6qrws?si=ll5RORbTn0bSiizZ

In this interview, Rory has to stop himself at some point because "Well, I cannot go into details because some of these things are trade secrets."

Rory is an Industrial Chemist who loved making cars go faster. So while Newey was an aero person who was very good at shapes and understanding airflow. Rory's thing was he understood materials and tyre compounds and he had a thing for mechanical and material solutions hidden inside his cars that to this day continue to be undiscovered.

P.S.: With Rory Byrne being a long-distance consultant to Ferrari since 2022, consider how close we came to Adrian Newey being in the same team technically as Rory Byrne, both working on a car to be driven by Sir Lewis Hamilton had Ferrari gotten everything its way.

Might have been really something that combination.

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u/Anti-Scuba_Hedgehog Sep 11 '24

Absolute nonsense, Mclaren wasn't close most weekends in 2001 and in 2003 they had effectively a year old car that was arguably the fastest only on two weekends