These are the standards every Paddock Wire story, video and post is held to. They are the same standards our readers can hold us to.
Accuracy first
A fact goes out only when we can stand behind it. Results, quotes, dates and records are checked against at least two independent sources before publication, and against the official record wherever one exists. If a fact cannot be verified twice, we do not publish it as fact.
Sources
We use official sources first: the FIA, the teams, and the drivers own public statements. Timing and classification data comes from the official timing feed. Where a story relies on a report from another outlet, we say so and name the outlet.
News, opinion and gossip
News is reported as news. Opinion is labelled as opinion. Gossip and paddock talk are reported as reports, never as settled fact: we use words like reportedly and according to, and we name the source of the claim. A rumour is not a result, and we do not present it as one.
Images and video
We use real photographs of real drivers, teams and cars, licensed or freely licensed, with credit where it is due. Our own channel artwork, including the Paddock Wire car, is our own creation and is labelled as channel artwork. We do not present generated images as photographs of real events, and we do not use a real person’s likeness in generated images.
Independence
Paddock Wire is independent. No team, driver, sponsor or advertiser tells us what to publish. We do not take payment for coverage, and we do not publish sponsored stories as if they were news.
Corrections
When we get something wrong, we fix it and we say so. See our Fact Check page for how corrections work and how to report an error.