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The Curate's Egg

The 2007 F1 season was brilliant at times, depressing at others. Richard Barnes looks at what is changing during the off-season, and what can be expected from 2008

As New Year dawned twelve months ago, Formula One faced the 2007 season with justified trepidation.

The retirement of the sport's most recognised global icon, Michael Schumacher, had left a power vacuum at the head of the drivers' field. With only one F1 champion driver in the 2007 field (McLaren's Fernando Alonso), the lack of established stars threatened to hinder the sport's growth and international viability.

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