Caporetto is a small town in north-western Slovenia located in the Isonzo valley. During the First World War it was the scene of a disastrous battle for the Italian armies, forced to retreat and then settle on the Piave. From that moment on, that event is indicated, figuratively, to describe a great defeat. The one that some press organs could face if Adrian Newey would be linked to Aston Martin.
This is not an informational article, it is a mere opinion piece. A subjective point of view that expresses the idea of those who, in doing this job, know that correctly informing is the first ethical obligation to follow. It seems contradictory to underline this aspect in a writing of personal reflections, but it is not.
The line of Formulacritica it has always been one of caution. If exactly four months after the birth of this project we have our base of loyal readers it is also because we have never chased the sensation, the impact, the news to get clicks. In the long run, the strategy of professional honesty pays off and pays off. And this is exactly the line we intend to continue to maintain.
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Adrian Newey – Ferrari: a long series of “non-news” passed off as truth
When, on May 1st, Adrian Newey and Red Bull declared their public divorce, rumors abounded that had actually already started in the previous months: the English genius would go to Ferrari with scientific certainty.
Someone postulated dates for the announcement, others warned of mystical visions in the Emilian land, still others used scheduled events (track days in Imola) collecting them in an instrumental way as proven proof of something unproven. Nor provable. Until proven otherwise.
Two months after that announcement Newey is still a Red Bull man. And so it must be seen that the statement outlined the operational boundaries of a gardening anomalous. The engineer himself had hinted that he would like to continue in Formula One but that he had not yet made a decision on his future. No, he insider Italians did not agree and spoke of "fluff", "bluff", "hot air".
“According to our information,” they wrote, the agreement with Frédéric Vasseur was a done deal. Because good Fred, before going home after a busy day round of consultations with his men, he feels the need to contact "Karim Muccone" (the fictional name of imaginative editors) and tell him how he would proceed in defining the negotiation of the millennium. Of course, that's exactly how it goes.
The names of certain newspapers and presumed experts on every red detail will not be revealed because they have already been made known by the history that is nowadays recorded in the virtual books that each of us can consult: web chronologies. Take a look at it and weigh newspapers and professionals accordingly. Or presumed to be so.
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Will Newey link up with Lawrence Stroll's ambitious stable? We do not know. Will he eventually go to Ferrari? Neither. The only certainty, the only truth, is that today there is no agreement made nor signature placed at the bottom of legal documents. All the reconstructions made so far obviously have a grain of truth, but they remain conjectures based on ideas and not on the evaluation of concrete elements.
If Newey were to fly to Maranello, the ballet of dates will begin, the game of "we wrote it first". Ass! (I partially censor the word only because some search engines are very sensitive). It would have been luck, a gamble that paid off. That's all.
Conversely, should he remain in England in the service of Aston, Williams, Mercedes or any other entity that needs to give stability to its technical sector, we will speak of a sudden choice, of "inclusion in the negotiation". No one who will have the decency to write in capital letters "Ladies and gentlemen, readers, we told bullshit".
You can be wrong. And admitting it wouldn't be a shame. But certain lines are not the result of incorrect reconstructions. No, they are the offspring of lucid strategies aimed at making the reader fall for the bait. And the problem lies entirely here: someone - even the "mammasantissima" of traffic volumes (this is how the users who flock to a site are defined) - uses to treat the reader like a fish to be speared and not as a subject to whom to offer information services. Editorial choices. Everyone evaluates them and draws their own conclusions.