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Originally Posted by KMPrenger
Pretty cool news.
If he wasn't supposed to say anything, it just makes you wonder....how could he NOT know not to say anything?
Makes you think they told him to drop it on his social media as a teaser to grab attention.
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Or .... nobody told him not to. Seriously, it can be that simple. And frankly, GM slipping up is
waaay more likely than GM trying to covertly orchestrate a viral social media campaign.
Thats more or less what happened last year at the 'fest with the 6th gen convertible. The cars were being unloaded, and those of us that had nothing better to do took pics. Those pics got posted because GM didn't tell us not to. For most of the cars at most of the fests, during most of the unloading/setup process, GM doesn't care what we took pics of. But there were sometimes things that they didn't want us to show, and so they'd tell us what we can't take pics of (well ... politely ask that we refrain from doing so). Last year, there were no such exception mentioned and so the surprise public unveil of the 2016 Camaro Convertible wasn't really a surprise to anyone in attendance.
Different stakes here, but the same type of mistake can be made. If anything, it would be even easier. GM knows that a bunch of bored moderators are going to be snapping pics and posting them online, but they probably assume that a race driver has enough discretion to not have to explicitly be told to not share press conference details.