The Weekly Grapevine
Super Aguri performed small miracles when they appeared in F1 with four-year-old ex-Arrows chassis back in 2006, but this year, there are question marks over the team's very future. Dieter Rencken wonders whether there is any light at the tunnel
It's the Hard Knock Life
There seems to be something seriously awry with Formula One's financial model when a team at the top end of the championship spectrum announces record profits while three at the bottom of the log either are, or have been in the recent past, threatened with extinction.
To rub salt into the wounds is the stated ability of another front-runner - one which recently headed the points' logs until convicted of rather unsavoury activities - to pay a fine of 100 million US dollars out of revenues.
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