Dodgy Business
There are a lot of ideas on Formula One's table at present - cost-cutting, spec-parts, longer-life parts, customer cars etc. And with the teams and manufacturers attempting to present a united front, where does that leave Williams? The odd team out, playing by the rules
Williams - between a rock and a hard place?
Events on track at Shanghai contrasted sharply with what was going on in the paddock. On the circuit, Lewis Hamilton was so supreme that nobody else had a look in. It was not one of the season's more entertaining Sundays.
But in the paddock, the political toing and froing outstripped anything some could recall for the past 30 years. I've often thought the balancing act of making Formula One viable for both big manufacturer teams and small independents, whose sole business is racing, is so hugely difficult as to be nigh on impossible.
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