F1: ‘Embarrassing’ Start To Series’ Brave New Era
Roger Benoit, one of the longest serving F1 correspondents in the paddock, said Tuesday's events at Jerez were “embarrassing”. “I have not experienced a start to a new test season such as that in 45 years in formula one,” Benoit
Roger Benoit, one of the longest serving F1 correspondents in the paddock, said Tuesday's events at Jerez were "embarrassing".
"I have not experienced a start to a new test season such as that in 45 years in formula one," Benoit, who writes for the Swiss newspaper Blick, told Germany's Bild-Zeitung.
As the new hybrid and V6-powered single seaters - featuring bizarre and often rude-looking nose appendages - broke down, hit the barriers or failed even to emerge from the garages, Benoit said F1 had "pulled its pants down in front of the whole world".