Certain tracks are just like that and whilst I’ve found the Spanish Grand Prix boring – for several years – the fact doesn’t change in that the aero packages are making it difficult for the chasing car to effectively catch the car in front unless it has a superior advantage.

I was watching in the Senna-Prost years and the simple fact is that cars were less aerodynamically efficient 20 years ago which meant they could run closer together. Look how close the cars could get to each other even at tracks like the Hungaroring or Catalunya. The 1989 and 1990 Hungarian Grands Prix were fantastic.

Since I first started watching F1 in ’89 it has become increasingly difficult for the cars to follow each other closely. It is not a question of making a knee-jerk reaction based on a single race – it’s been like this for years. As I pointed out in the statistics review, the last eight Spanish Grands Prix have all been won from pole. It is absolutely nothing to do with difference in driver skill.

All the on-track battles, Senna-Prost, Schumi-Mika, Schumi-Alonso would have been there even in today’s cars. The reason we saw such brilliant battles in the past is not inferior cars, but superior drivers. Apart from Fernando and (probably)Kimi & Lewis, none of the drivers are good enough with or without the ‘dirty air’.

And, do not over-react after just 1 race! Let Renault improve another tenth, and let there be a Kimi-Lewis on the first row. I am sure, you will see the best racing in this season.

2009 aerodynamics are going to be much more simpler, so let this season pass off, we are going to have ‘pure racing’ next season anyways. But, IMO, it won’t change anything, reason : inferior drivers compared to yesteryears

Think about it would Villeneuve had held of 5 other cars in the Spanish Grand Prix in the current car? Would we have had the great wheel banging moment in Dijon between Gilles and Rene? Would Senna in inferior machinery been able to beat out Mansell in the same excitement and fashion? Or any of those fantastic Senna/Prost/Mansell/Piquet battles.

The answer would be no. And the solution is to take away the aerodynamics nonsense, unfreeze the engines, bring back the slicks and let another tyre manufacturer back in and allow customer chassis (one customer per manufacturer limit).

Racing has always been made more exciting by the brilliant leaps of imagination of the likes of Gordon Murray, who were able to be creative in a less restricted formula. In today’s Mosley affected era, we see cars that have been turned into aerodynamic specialists, overdeveloped to drive fast in their little air bubble, but unable to do much when in disturbed air. Hopefully next year will bring some much wanted change in that area, with aero restrictions and slick tires.

I agree we need to strike a mean between technology and racing. My point here is that in the last 2 seasons, the technical improvements brought about various teams have been pretty monumental. I think we have seen more radical improvements over 2007 -08 than in the 4-5 years preceding them put together (Longer wheelbase, bridge wing, shark-fin covers, various types of ears and horns , and now holes in the nose). So,IMO, it would be wrong to abandon these improvements.

What I would love is artificial rain being created on the circuits. This will reduce the importance of the ‘racing line’ allowing drivers to experiment more with the track.