thing is the url does say “f1 fanatic”, and seeing as i subscribe to both sites, you’re telling me the same info twice.

a difficult balance i guess. still my favourite quote of the day that one.

Know what you mean a bit, though it’s still less staged than NASCAR, I feel. It’s kind of the halfway house between F1 and NASCAR, though it’s a bit closer to NASCAR than Champcar was.

“It caters only the ‘I need drama!’ fans, not the purist fans of racing like this community..”

This is true. There’s nothing really wrong with that, though. The BTCC is similar in that respect I’d say. Sometimes F1 is guilty of not producing enough drama. And I think it’s good to pay attention to other series. We’ll all plump for F1 first and foremost I suspect, but there are elements you can get in e.g. GP2/Indycar that you don’t get in F1…

[I will quickly qualify that by saying that F1 2008 is doing a good job of being both "pure" and "dramatic". 9 races in and we've had, in my opinion, 4 really memorable races - 2 dry and 2 wet (Australia and Canada, and Monaco and Britain), and Malaysia wasn't bad either. I think we're already at least level, if not slightly ahead on exciting races compared to the whole of 2007 which was in my view only interesting on paper because of the relative closeness of the title fight.]

I don’t agree it’s worthless by the way. Look at how big CART was in the early ’90s and the effect it had on F1. Post-reunification IndyCar has the potential to replicate that.

You’re not wrong there – at the previous IRL round (a very short oval, not helped by the increase in runners from the Champcar/IRL reunification), around one third of the ENTIRE RACE was spent under yellow.

At Watkins Glen there was a long period of green running, and the drivers obviously decided that we weren’t getting the full American experience, so they started to crash into each other regularly. And when the SC was out, they continued to crash into each other regularly to keep it out, which was nice of them.