Williams has chosen to show its new car exclusively to F1 Racing magazine. I don’t understand the logic of this. If you give the car to one single outlet, they will love you, but you cannot expect everyone else to think good things about you. The media world is a competitive one and handing someone victory without a fight means that everyone else feels cheated. I hope that Williams has extracted a suitable deal from F1 Racing to make it worth the trouble that such a move may have with other journalists. I dot really care one way or the other but if I was on the news desk of another magazine I would probably not be too impressed, and if have little incentive to be nice and fair to Team Willy. They have not been fair to us. The reason that there are car launches is to avoid this kind of favouritism, but obviously someone at Williams thinks one can reinvent the wheel by doing it this way and will now discover why the wheel was invented differently. At the end of the day the team will be judged on its performance, but having the press feeling good about you at the start of a year is probably a more sensible route to take.

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