Button and Hamilton Road Safety Initiative

Ice Globe · 11 May 2011 at 17:55

Found this short interview of Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton outside Downing St talking about their support for a road safety campaign:

Must be one the the most cringe worthy interviews I've seen in a while.
Can't see how Lewis is any role model for road safety and you can even read it in Jenson's raised eyebrows as he 'clearly drops Lewis into it'.

Don't they look so different out their sponsored overalls?

Guerrilla · 11 May 2011 at 19:09

Oh wow that is a pretty painful watch

CaptainRAVE · 11 May 2011 at 19:16

Hamilton in a road safety campaign? Seriously? Button isn't much better!

GingerNinja1989 · 11 May 2011 at 19:44

Jph said:
Oh wow that is a pretty painful watch

Pretty much this.

dannyjo22 · 11 May 2011 at 19:55

Oh geez that's bad. You can see they are not interested in putting in anymore time than that interview took.

Really poor, they could atleast have tried to be interested instead of turning round and laughing when asked how much time they would be putting in. They didn't have a clue what they were fronting or what was going to happen in the campaign.

Mclaren PR balls no doubt, they could have been briefed properly.

~Mike~ · 11 May 2011 at 20:19

That's really terrible, seem unprepared for the interview.

Agree, Lewis as a role model for a road safety campaign is such a joke.
Remember his antics in Melbourne!

(for one)

Ice Globe said:
Don't they look so different out their sponsored overalls?

They look very smart. Only good thing about the interview.

Tweaker · 11 May 2011 at 20:27

I guess it is one of those things that they cant say no to, but are only there for the press.

ins0mn1ac · 11 May 2011 at 20:52

In that light Lewis looks really bald, haha cringe worthy!

MarcLister · 11 May 2011 at 20:59

dannyjo22 said:
Mclaren PR balls no doubt, they could have been briefed properly.

Easily. Matt Bishop, the ex-F1 Racing magazine editor, now McLaren's Head of Corporate and Sponsorship Relationship Care, OK, I jest, that's probably not his job title, was in the background near the end. It was obviously some McLaren PR event to make the team/company look good. However, considering Lewis' driving infractions in Australia I don't think it was a good idea to have him there.

dannyjo22 · 11 May 2011 at 21:23

Mike306 said:
Agree, Lewis as a role model for a road safety campaign is such a joke.
Remember his antics in Melbourne! (for one)
.

Well Jenson was no better at that age, wasn't he stopped doing something like 120mph in France while at Williams IIRC.

dalin80 · 13 May 2011 at 07:51

MarcLister said:
considering Lewis' driving infractions in Australia I don't think it was a good idea to have him there.

Jenson has also been in trouble going thanks to going a bit too fast in the UK and France.

arknor · 13 May 2011 at 09:44

Mike306 said:
That's really terrible, seem unprepared for the interview.

Agree, Lewis as a role model for a road safety campaign is such a joke.
Remember his antics in Melbourne! (for one)

.

and his GF said in an interview how they often speed in geneva or wherever it was on the way to hamiltons house....

MarcLister · 13 May 2011 at 18:38

dalin80 said:
Jenson has also been in trouble going thanks to going a bit too fast in the UK and France.

Weren't the Button ones a little less recent? And not during a GP weekend OUTSIDE the GP track? I think Button has a little lower profile than Lewis. Lewis is also a bigger seller of papers than Button whether the headlines are positive or negative.

Kerming · 13 May 2011 at 19:57

button dandruff free.