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According to Jonathan Noble, what Formula One has been missing of late is a good old fashioned rivalry, a bit of intrigue or even a full-blown controversy. Well our man got all three in Belgium on Sunday night...
I had spent most of the weekend in Spa-Francorchamps wondering just why the Formula One season had not come alive. The paddock, just like it had been for the past five or six races, had very little buzz.
Such quietness is typical during the mid-season grind from Magny-Cours through to Hockenheim. When it continued in Hungary I just put it down to everyone in F1 being demob happy about the looming summer break. But things did not pick up in Valencia - and then Spa was exactly the same thing.
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