Sebastien Buemi Ignored By The Chequered Flag

I'm a big fan of the BBC's The Chequered Flag Formula 1 podcast and I've really missed it over the winter.

After a great opening race in Melbourne, which was full of great racing, clashes and which had a fairytale ending, I listened to their post race podcast with excitement. It was a great podcast as usual, but I was disappointed that they didn't find time to even mention Sebastien Buemi's great performance on debut.

I understand that there were many big stories, which have to take precedence - things such as:

• The amazing Brawn GP one two finish
• The clash between Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica, which cost them both a place on the podium (and the excellent performance of both drivers before that)
• Lewis Hamiliton's fantastic third, in a car that no one thought could make it into the points
• Toyota's charge through the pack, after starting in pit lane.
• Jarno Trulli's penalty which cost him a place on the podium
• The effectiveness of KERS in overtaking and defending positions
• Ferrari's horrible weekend

I've probably missed some stories too. So I understand that Sebastien Buemi and Toro Rosso are not going to be a big story or mentioned at the top of the podcast.

However, I'm pretty sure that last year, the Chequered Flag post race podcast went through all the F1 drivers, at least briefly. This time round they totally ignored the STR drivers (and Force India's drivers as well for that matter).

That's disappointing in it's own right, but given that Sebastien Buemi scored in his first race (one of only 69 drivers to ever do this), soundly beat his more experienced teammate, and ran as high as 4th at one point, it's disappointing that they didn't mention Buemi for his achievement.

Here's hoping that The Chequered Flag covers all the drivers in future.