We’ve never made any bones about it; we are not a news site. We don’t pretend to be an Autosport or any other F1 news portal or feed. We are not. We are a journal of F1 opinion. I leave the news to the main F1 news sites and even bloggers like Keith or Pitpass as they do a good job with that milieu. We are something different and your participation in that process, Arnet, is most graciously appreciated and actually defines our nature and mission more clearly with each post. Thank you again and it is a pleasure to have you here.

For the web-sites that like to think of themselves as more serious news disseminators, here are two that covered the same story, but mentioned the source, with no link.
http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=38454
http://www.planet-f1.com/story/0,18954,3213_5439170,00.html

I don’t really take PlanetF1 very seriously as all they do is regurgitate information they’ve gathered themselves elsewhere, and Pitpass, well perhaps they take themselves a bit too seriously, although they are very well connected and seem to be on the leading edge of breaking news.

Having said all that, I really like this blog, I think you do a terrific job of blending news and opinion (don’t ever hold that back!). I guess I’m just used to finding sources in blogs and news sources, since I spend far too much time reading online info. It doesn’t mean I always click through to see where the info came from. It’s enough to hover my cursor over the link and see that perhaps your source was Autosport, and I can pretty much trust that if you’re quoting them I don’t need to go any further. Then again, if you want to discuss Kimi leaving Ferrari based on some old quote from a Spanish newspaper, I’ll know that maybe we should give this one some space and time to mature.

At any rate, your blog will continue to have a permanent spot in my Google Reader and I’ll be checking in daily. Keep up the great work. By the way, your trivia questions are too hard for this fan, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Best way to learn…….

Eau Rouge: You know me, always applying strategic truth. :) good one mate.

SJ: SJ Skid has a fine pedigree in the business and I appreciate his desire to find single, credible source instead of regurgitated sources. As with a blog; you’re left with that sometimes and I try to only use secondary or tertiary sources from people that are reputable or sites that many of you would trust or at least know the bias. Not always easy but thanks to Arnet, I am trying harder to provide a more complete experience for all of you.

SR: Thanks for the catch SR. It’s good to know you got my back mate. :)

I gave the bulk of the quote to try to give that context to the greatest extent possible. And, where possible, I’m going to try to find the original source (for instance, on the post about Le Seb considering a lawsuit, I got his full statement from his official web site).

Spanish newspapers are a bit more obscure, but I saw this quote at a couple of sites, including the autosport link above. Since it wasn’t the original source, I didn’t think it provided additional context.

I appreciate the feedback; as SR said, I’m new to posting here — although I have a bit of experience in the news business. Now, whether that gives *me* more or less credibility is up for debate! I’ll be getting NC a bio soon for the page.

Enjoy the weekend.