Mark Hughes: F1's Inside Line
"When F1 is asked how much energy goes into running its enormous windtunnels, the answers get ugly"
Malaysia's Sepang track used to be a circuit where we saw lots of overtaking. Even just a couple of years ago that was true. Two long straights preceded by tight, traction-type corners, with hard braking into slow corners at the end, lots of track width to make for a variety of lines; it all seemed tailor-made for passing.
On Sunday we got a great race there anyway, courtesy of the fascination of McLaren's team play against Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton's starring performance. But those two former overtaking zones saw virtually zero action.
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