Title: Bishop to join McLaren
Paul_Murtagh - September 26, 2007 10:29 AM (GMT)
Grandprix.com - Bishop to join McLarenMatt Bishop, the editor in chief of F1 Racing magazine, and the editorial director of Haymarket Motorsport Ltd has resigned his position and will be leaving the company in December. Bishop will start work as Group Head of Communications and Public Relations at McLaren on January 2 next year. It is the third major loss for Haymarket in recent weeks with the news that longtime F1 reporter Nigel Roebuck is leaving Autosport magazine to join Motorsport along with Autosport's Editor in Chief Damien Smith.Will this affect either F1 Racing or the media relations within McLaren? It has been said in various corners that Bishop can be biased towards certain drivers, so is this the type of person McLaren would want as their Group Head of Communications?
everythingoes - September 26, 2007 10:39 AM (GMT)
Reading some of the stuff recently, one got the impression that a few guys were doing a PR job for McLaren anyways :P
Andrew Davies of PlanetF1 must be devastated <roflmao>
vikki - September 26, 2007 11:33 AM (GMT)
must say i found a lot of matt bishops stuff pompous and smug.
he should fit in well. :P
Shadowman - September 26, 2007 02:59 PM (GMT)
Saw this and thought it was Emily Bishop! <roflmao>
Rob - September 26, 2007 03:02 PM (GMT)
I figured McLaren were going after a Catholic Bishop, maybe trying to steal that Papal support for Ferrari....
PiquetFan - September 26, 2007 03:31 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (everythingoes @ Sep 26 2007, 11:39 AM) |
| Andrew Davies of PlanetF1 must be devastated <roflmao> |
Spare a thought for Andrew Benson of the BBC as well <whistle>
safc_fan89 - September 26, 2007 09:03 PM (GMT)
It will affect F1 Racing...it might become more readable! The last few issues in particular have been very poor.
DavidColthard II - September 26, 2007 09:09 PM (GMT)
I lost all respect for Bishop after his scathing attack on Ralf, he is in no position to tell an f1 driver who he constantly and predictably slags despite winning a half dozen races and beaten many of his teamates such as Trulli ,Button and Montoya, to "**** off" shows how full of himself he is. The "Bish" will be a big fat failure. (excuse the pun)
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Red Andy - September 27, 2007 10:19 AM (GMT)
Maybe F1 Racing will stop trying to blame everything on Michael Schumacher now. :P
u4coffee - September 27, 2007 10:21 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Red Andy @ Sep 27 2007, 11:19 AM) |
| Maybe F1 Racing will stop trying to blame everything on Michael Schumacher now. :P |
Why? Its sooo much fun <roflmao>
drlips999 - September 27, 2007 10:31 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Shadowman @ Sep 26 2007, 02:59 PM) |
| Saw this and thought it was Emily Bishop! <roflmao> |
<roflmao> <roflmao>
ppparkinson9 - September 29, 2007 06:15 PM (GMT)
I thought he was already working for McLaren, now this has happened Peter Windsor can go become Ferrari's PR man.
Ralf deserves everything he gets.
CaveBadSeed - November 11, 2007 07:51 PM (GMT)
In the latest issue of F1 Racing (Bishop's last as editor), he describes McLaren in his editorial as the "best team in F1".
A laughable statement, and one that proves he will fit right in at the grey, corporate, PR world that is MM.
F1 racing will be a lot better without him IMO.