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It would be nice, but I’m sceptical until we see concrete announcements. The new engine formula isn’t bringing manufacturers flocking back as promised. The original proposals might have been better.

True. Like the three-stopper which won him the Hungarian GP of 1998, the pit strategy was only part of the story. It was the incredible pace he kept up, lap after lap, that handed him both of those victories.

Good points made by our anonymous Horse Whisperer. Surprising, though, that it didn’t mention the obvious political intent of the rule change, which is to help Red Bull. Normally our anonymous correspondent isn’t […]

The McLaren-Mercedes partnership has been reported to have been in trouble for at least four years now. That’s why Mercedes bought up their own team rather than increasing their stake in McLaren, as might have […]

Yeah, then Honda can ditch them halfway through a contract, sending the team into a terminal decline, and it’ll be just like the mid-2000s all over again!

Caterham acted dangerously twice: once by failing to ensure that the wheel was properly attached in the pits, and again by instructing van der Garde to drive back to the pits rather than pull over immediately. We […]

Mercedes should be pretty embarrassed with themselves. To be so quick on Saturday and nowhere in the race has to be about more than tyre wear. There are serious questions to be asked at that team.

Only three engine suppliers will be a serious problem for F1. Ten years ago we had seven or eight. What if one more drops out? It doesn’t say much for the pinnacle of motorsport if the overwhelming majority of the […]

The winner was a foregone conclusion as soon as Pirelli changed the tyre allocation at the eleventh hour. Some nice racing down the field, but DRS spoiled many potentially good battles and Pirelli’s politicking […]

So will drivers be allowed to use DRS under yellow flags again?

To me he seems a bit more likeable since he’s left McLaren. I can’t imagine the Lewis of a couple of years ago being so good-humoured about his pit lane mishap in Malaysia, for instance.

Hembery’s comments don’t square with the fact that they’ve changed the tyre allocation for Bahrain at the eleventh hour.

We know who that benefits. Blue car, big angry cow on the side.

I tend to agree that […]

the only point among those that is remotely mitigating is the first one; since we don’t know when the offences were committed, we don’t know if it was applicable.

The drivers are responsible for their own DRS […]

It’s not as though DRS is automatic. The drivers have to press that button to activate it, and they’re not allowed to do so when yellow flags are shown. They all know (or ought to know) this, so ignorance is not […]

They should just disable DRS entirely until the problem is fixed :)

True, but it’s a long season, and McLaren have shown (eg 2009) that they can turn an uncompetitive car into a race winner by the end of the season. Mercedes have consistently gone backwards over the season every […]

To be fair to Red Bull, at least they admitted their error, unlike when McLaren did the same thing in Spain and tried to pretend that Hamilton had a problem with his car.

They tested in Bahrain until a couple of years ago, owing to the warmer winter temperatures, although the present political situation makes it pretty unlikely that teams would want to return there, other than for […]

@keithcollantine My post wasn’t a criticism of your editorial choices, more an expression of frustration that this is one of the few things of note to have happened in the last three weeks. The pre-race press […]

This is getting more boring than people moaning about the Pirelli tyres. Has anyone’s opinion on the situation actually changed since the dust settled in Malaysia? Does this constant rehashing of the same incident […]