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Decent F1 Journalists?

  • 24-12-2009 12:15am
    #1
    Slutmonkey57b
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    Top of the list has to be the guys at Pitpass - some of the best thought out and well informed commentary anywhere. Compared to Ed Gorman's scatter-gun approach to writing, it's a breath of journalistic loveliness. In fact, it's simply journalism.

    Mike Lawrence:
    http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_features_section.php?fes_aty_id=7

    Keith Collantine over at F1 Fanatic also does a good line in background pieces.

    James Allen, doyen of "worst commentator ever" lists actually does a very good blog too.


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  • #2
    CharlieCroker
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    personally, i enjoy reading Alan Henry in Autocar


  • #3
    frostie500
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    For me its still got to be Nigel Roebuck. He isnt as prolific a writer as he was in his Autosport heyday but his editorial piece in Motorsport is always worth the read as are his web articles for the same publication are excellent as well


  • #4
    Robbo
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    frostie500 wrote: »
    For me its still got to be Nigel Roebuck. He isnt as prolific a writer as he was in his Autosport heyday but his editorial piece in Motorsport is always worth the read as are his web articles for the same publication are excellent as well
    I used to love Roebuck years ago but then he seemed to settle into a rut in his last couple of years at Autosport where he'd just waffle on about Villenueve ad nauseum without addressing anything current. Some switch clicked in his head where he was back to his formative years and nothing ever progressed except for trotting out the occasional Senna cliche. It seemed right to pension him off to Motorsport where he could get on the conveyor belt of recycling the same Stirling Moss piece, every 18 months. For all eternity.

    Of the current heads, Joe Saward is superb especially his blog. Eric Silbermann in his various aliases was worth a read back in the day.

    The problem is twofold these days. It's drivers who are media trained from age 9 (hello Lewis) and journos who are completely tamed by PR blondes who in 4 years time will be off doing press for Henley or Ascott with 2 glasses of champagne in their hands. Then you have the internet nuts who haven't been to a race in their life but make up rumours based on what they've stolen from someone who is actually *paid* to be there...


  • #5
    Amnesiac_ie
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    I used to really enjoy Peter Windsor's technical pieces in F1 Racing a couple of years ago but he seems to have his hands full with the USF1 project at the moment... although come March he could well find himself using a journalist's pass to access the paddock!

    James Allen's blog is fantastic and unlike the specialist press is free and up to date. I think Legard's efforts for the BBC this year shows that commentary is more difficult than we think.

    I also like reading Joe Saward and Maurice Hamilton.


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