Er… So that’s four Grands Prix…erm…out of 19. Um. Uh. Did I miss any?

australia will likely be good, so i make it… five!

you’ve got a lot of reasons to make soup instead of watch Formula 1.

i need to learn to make soup.

A truly bizarre decision which we haven’t heard a good explanation (or apology) for.

I’m in two minds. Sometimes people in charge of a project decide that they have to ‘move the game on’ – jazz it up a bit. There has been a change in the administration of the circuit recently – it was a KHP deal, with some members of the Bahraini royal family involved, but now Martin Whittaker has been moved on (to V8 Supercars, I think) and the royal family has taken complete control. When new people come in they like to put their own stamp on things.

Or maybe, since it was among the shorter circuits, they decided a longer lap would mean it would take slightly longer for the leaders to catch the backmarkers…

We’re one race into a season. One race that has overpromised and underdelivered. There have been boring races in the past and there will be again. We shouldn’t extrapolate one set of circumstances to arrive at a storyline for the whole season. Could we at least see what happens at Melbourne and Sepang before we decide that F1 is heading off to hell in a handcart?

Glad to hear another voice of reason. Some of the knee-jerk stuff that’s been written in reaction to Bahrain (and not just in the newspapers) has been embarrassing to read.

I think whoever decided to add 8 field spread inducing corners to this track should be taken out into the desert and not allowed near F1 until they have carried every grain of sand out of the desert in their pockets and dumped it in the sea.

A truly bizarre decision which we haven’t heard a good explanation (or apology) for.

I think whoever decided to add 8 field spread inducing corners to this track should be taken out into the desert and not allowed near F1 until they have carried every grain of sand out of the desert in their pockets and dumped it in the sea. Regardless of the rules in place no F1 race on that track would have been more interesting or entertaining.

I am in favour of a ban on re-fuelling and it is certainly a step in the right direction.

I am surprised no-one in the FIA is claiming the moral highground for the contribution they have made to the environment by not shipping two dozen fuel rigs round the world. It seems odd in a sport that paints green stripes on tyres and generated untold tons of CO2 developing KERS which was never even fitted to the vast majority of cars that something has been done which has genuinely made a positive environmental impact has been totally ignored. Anyone would think they were only playing at being green only claim an environmental benefit from things that were dreamt up for that purpose.

Surely the racing will get better as the season goes on. Indeed, Montreal, Suzuka, Spa, and Interlagos usually produce good races… Er… So that’s four Grands Prix…erm…out of 19. Um. Uh. Did I miss any?

Then again, I’m very much in agreement with mr. c’s take that everyone saw this coming when they announced a ban on refueling. After all, wasn’t refueling brought back in 1994 to “spice up the show?” Yet the teams agreed to it in order to save some cash. And NOW they’re concerned about the fans? It’s almost as if FOTA’s grand claims about making the sport more fan-friendly were just a bunch of…

Add to the boring racing the fact that the cars are EVEN UGLIER than last year’s models (a remarkable achievement when you think about it. BTW: Is Renault so hard up for cash that they couldn’t hire a professional graphic designer to do their liveries? Sacre bleu! C’est une monstrositie!) , and you’ve got a lot of reasons to make soup instead of watch Formula 1.