The media around the world reject the Valencia race

The media completely rejects the poor spectacle offered during the European Grand Prix in Valencia. After seven exciting races, aided by the new DRS system and the high degradation of the Pirelli tyres, the same formula did not help in animating the usual procession that takes place on the streets of Valencia.

What made the situation worse was the further increase in the rankings by Sebastian Vettel and his happy celebration on the radio.

The message “Great guys, you don't know how good I feel” was followed by a “deafening silence in the media center,” according to Tom Cary of the Telegraph.

Bob McKenzie of The Sunday Express agrees that the 23-year-old Red Bull driver has further 'put the F1 race to sleep', with Valencia already known as the 'yawning festival'.

David Tremayne of the Independent said: “If all races were on tracks as damnably boring and uninvolving as this, the FIA ​​would be wise to give another world championship trophy to Sebastian Vettel now.”

The journalist also took a dig at the circuit designer Hermann Tilke: “For heaven's sake, even kids with the Scalextric video game would make better circuits.”

James Murray of the Daily Star added: "Sebastian Vettel won one of the most boring races ever and there is a fear that the rest of the season will be like this."

Michael Spearman of the Sun: “The city run around Valencia Marina was as exciting as listening to a four-hour Wagner opera.”

The German Bild am Sonntag wrote: “The best thing about Valencia was the sea, the blue sky, the yachts and the girls in bikinis.” The Austrian Kleine Zeitung agrees: “It was the first horrendous boring race of the season”.

Tom Cary declared that it was wrong, however, to accuse Vettel: "The celebration by showing the finger is becoming irritating only because he shows it to us every Sunday" he said.

The only person happy with the race is promoter Jorge Martinez Aspar, who insisted that as many as 85.000 people attended the event. However, he stated that there is no rush to sign an agreement for another five years starting in 2014.

“We are happy with the situation and want to make the project even more vital. Ecclestone wants to help us, but we need to involve the city even more."

Alessandra Leoni