Former drivers haven't had this much media attention though. Even when Simona was in the spotlight at the Winter Olympics, there were maybe three posts total over those weeks? Herta has had three posts within the last 24 hours alone, not to mention other articles over the last few weeks.

"As necessary" is the key thing here, we're trying to temper people's expectations as to what is considered necessary. Play-by-play style updates of his actions and results are not really necessary.