What F1 can learn from Alonso’s blast from the past
Fernando Alonso's eye-catching demonstration runs in his title-winning 2005 Renault were a pleasant distraction from a turgid Abu Dhabi GP. But did they really expose problems with current F1, or will our appetite for nostalgia always cloud the present?
The buzz surrounding Fernando Alonso's R25 demonstration laps over the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend reminded me of a conversation I had with a Formula 1 colleague a few years ago.
He suggested that F1 was a series that was always at its worst in the present. No matter what era you lived in, it was never quite as good as it was in the past, nor as brilliant as it was going to be in the future. That is definitely true of now, for F1's current generation of amazing cars - that produce more downforce than ever, are faster than ever, and have the most powerful engines in the series' history - are not universally loved.
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