Nigel Roebuck: Fifth Column
"Fans are turned off by endless additions to the F1 rule book"
Strange times we live in. A week ago I was in Turkey for a sadly dull grand prix, and on Sunday evening I watched an IRL race at Detroit's Belle Isle, which, in terms of overtaking, made Monaco seem like Michigan, and through which it was difficult to stay awake - even for the drivers, if Helio Castroneves was anything to go by.
On the other side of the world, meantime, Marcus Gronholm won Rally New Zealand by one third of one second. Some mistake, surely... Not so strange, though, was Goodwood, whose Revival Meeting is one of the highlights of my year.
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