Frank Keating

Running on empty

To the casual follower, Formula 1 Grand Prix motor racing has just about vanished from the radar

issue 05 August 2006

It may be fast and noisy still, but it has become drearily predictable, uncompetitive and even, you might say, totally un-hairy. Even obsessive vroom-vroomers, I fancy, are completely cheesed off with their sport. Certainly to the casual follower, Formula 1 Grand Prix motor racing has just about vanished from the radar.

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