Day: 7 October 2006 articles archive

Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso are tied in the championship battle. But as many are pointing out, Schumacher actually leads the championship as he has seven wins this year to Alonso’s six. This is perfectly logical – and it leads to a logical question: Instead of using ‘most highest finishes’ as a tie-breaker, why not … Continue reading Prizes for places, not points

Watching the Japanese Grand Prix qualifying this morning immediately made me think of Mark Hughes’ piece in Autosport this week. I enjoy his writing very much – it’s deeply analytical, reasoned and persuasive – and this one was no different even though I don’t agree with him: It was proved again at Shanghai last weekend: … Continue reading Tyre bore