AUSTIN, Oct 17 \u2014 Spaniard Carlos Sainz yesterday stood by his criticism of the television coverage of this month\u2019s Singapore Grand Prix, and added he was unimpressed by the \u201cviral\u201d global over-reaction to his comments.<\/p>\n
He said he had not wished to cause any offence by observing there had been too much focus on celebrities and girlfriends at the expense of the racing on October 5.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy comments were a bit blown out of proportion,\u201d he said before this weekend\u2019s United States Grand Prix in Austin.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that I mentioned the girlfriends, or the WAGs (wives and girlfriends), or whatever you like to call them, brought a bit of spice to the comment and it went more viral worldwide.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Singapore the broadcaster didn\u2019t do a good job. I mean there are other races where they do an incredible job and show us things, incredible things and track action, but for Singapore it was not good,\u201d the 31-year-old added.<\/p>\n
Sainz\u2019s comments were widely published after the Singapore race.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Formula One reacted to Sainz\u2019s observations, defending the sport\u2019s television coverage and said they sought to balance important moments with reactions from grandstands, high profile guests and locations.<\/p>\n
Sainz has been in good form for Williams in recent races and carved through the field on his way to finishing 10th from 18th on the grid at Singapore.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey missed way too much track action, but that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s a criticism of them or the way they do their job,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a shame that on a track where it\u2019s so difficult to overtake, they missed so many on-track battles.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope they didn\u2019t take it personally or take it too hard, because it was just a simple critique of Singapore, which was not good enough,\u201d he added. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Oct 17 \u2014 Spaniard Carlos Sainz yesterday stood by his criticism of the television coverage of this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[6872,4199,707,165762,4200,165760,79,16,15,165761,165763,165764],"class_list":{"0":"post-505875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-carlos-sainz","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-formula-1","11":"tag-formula-one-television-coverage","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-singapore-grand-prix-criticism","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-united-states-grand-prix","18":"tag-wags-controversy","19":"tag-williams-team-performance"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115387536728905308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}