Got up at 4:30am yesterday to watch the Australian GP (yes I know I’m mad). Glad to see Lewis Hamilton score another win, but was even more impressed by Sebastian Bourdais bringing back markers Torro Rosso up to 4th before his car expired just two laps from the end. And with all the millions F1 team spend preparing for a new season you think they could keep more than six cars running by the end of the race. The retirement rate was approaching farcical.

Having said that the removal of Traction Control has meant they need to be drivers again – well overdue in my opinion. Watching F1 cars slide about like that, and the occasional glorious four wheel drift, took me back to the 1970s and the likes of Ronnie Peterson and James Hunt (Boy that’s showing my age a bit).

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