After Damon Hills recent comments regarding the relationship between Hamilton and Button in the past week, yet another player from the sport has come out echoing the sentiments of the 1996 Champion.
During PR build up to the British GP at the new refurbished Silverstone track, Hill was quoted as saying;
This has now been backed up by Mark Webber and Christian Horner,
The comments come, in spite of McLaren's continued efforts to display a united front to the rest of the world. Indeed, they have been offering many joint photo shoot opportunities to their two championship winning drivers, and seem eager to display their relationship at every juncture.
Where as Hill's comments come, probably as a true representation of his opinion, it seems that MW and CH may merely be trying to stir the hornets nest, so to speak. As has been well publicised, it has not been the easiest season in the Red Bull camp, with technical failures, and below par achievements undoubtably adding to the friction between he two drivers, that of course cumulated in the incident in Turkey. No doubt, similar tensions in the McLaren camp would do nothing but benefit the Red Bull team.
In spite of these comments, and the obvious rivalry between Lewis and Jenson, the McLaren camp does seem to be functioning better than everyone perceived it would at the start of the season. The media appearances seem genuine, and the team displaying their drivers relationships does not seem to be such the big case of "smoke and mirrors" as RedBull have suggested.
No doubt any incident between the two in future races will be blown out of all proportion by the media, and the sentiments put across by McLaren will therefore be put to the question. For me, however, the idea we have about the two British boys seems genuine. There is obviously more below the surface that we do not see, but I think the good working, relatively friendly environment at McLaren is more fact than media fiction. The ability to have a joke during an interview says it all for me really.
During PR build up to the British GP at the new refurbished Silverstone track, Hill was quoted as saying;
Damon Hill said:
This has now been backed up by Mark Webber and Christian Horner,
Mak Webber said:
Christian Horner said:
The comments come, in spite of McLaren's continued efforts to display a united front to the rest of the world. Indeed, they have been offering many joint photo shoot opportunities to their two championship winning drivers, and seem eager to display their relationship at every juncture.
Where as Hill's comments come, probably as a true representation of his opinion, it seems that MW and CH may merely be trying to stir the hornets nest, so to speak. As has been well publicised, it has not been the easiest season in the Red Bull camp, with technical failures, and below par achievements undoubtably adding to the friction between he two drivers, that of course cumulated in the incident in Turkey. No doubt, similar tensions in the McLaren camp would do nothing but benefit the Red Bull team.
In spite of these comments, and the obvious rivalry between Lewis and Jenson, the McLaren camp does seem to be functioning better than everyone perceived it would at the start of the season. The media appearances seem genuine, and the team displaying their drivers relationships does not seem to be such the big case of "smoke and mirrors" as RedBull have suggested.
No doubt any incident between the two in future races will be blown out of all proportion by the media, and the sentiments put across by McLaren will therefore be put to the question. For me, however, the idea we have about the two British boys seems genuine. There is obviously more below the surface that we do not see, but I think the good working, relatively friendly environment at McLaren is more fact than media fiction. The ability to have a joke during an interview says it all for me really.
