Yeah, it's pretty much the same every year, depending on changes in regulations. You just have to watch the preseason practice to see which way it is going to go. Australia also suffers from new drivers unfamiliar with their machinery, but in recent years the shenanigans in the first corner seem somewhat subdued.

You're a little hard on the F1 reliability there. Yes, Australia had a huge number of retirements, but I remember the days when that would not have been unusual at any race in the season. Eleven finishers? Sometimes you didn't even get the six you needed to hand out all the points, and in those days you ran a…

Because they don't make the headlines when they stall in the carparks of burger joints.

The Porsche driver got out and said "Dude, why did you turn?"

Geely for this:

It is itching for a race. Sheik's Peak, anyone?

To be fair to them, they knew they would not be winning anything, so they ran the estate for publicity purposes, if you measure it against that it was a huge success.

I'm no aerodynamic expert (but I have looked at a lot of cars), can someone with a little more knowledge than me tell me how that back end is not going to generate a huge amount of life at 290 mph?

Quick, get in your stupidly named Corolla and drive, these humongous people will devour us all!

I can't shake the feeling that this was someone's project that was never properly finished due to financial reasons. CP.

Cheers, gives me an excuse not to leave the computer.

That's hardly 100 hp off.

Maybe you could remind me what's going in the new Focus RS. The claim is not about noise levels, but power density.

Aren't Mercedes already getting these sort of figures out of a four cylinder? Ford pulling 320 hp out of a 2.3? This does not sound all that impressive.

It starts out as a production car, engine, brakes, suspension, gearbox and subframe are switched, rollcage installed and rear wing fitted. You're allowed to do some limited stuff with aerodynamics, flaring the arches and sideskirts (the exhaust must exit though the left hand side). After all that competition balance…

Formula E is doing something seriously wrong if they need that to make it more exciting.

To be fair it wasn't his fault, he didn't get time to organise his own crash. I must admit I did laugh when I saw who the first person to crash out of a race was this year.

They were no slouch themselves, world's fastest car transporter in the day, possibly still is.

This reminds me of the plans to build a new Mini, it had a three cylinder rear engine placed at an angle, but then BMW came along and decided that they wanted it to be a fun but bloated nostalgia-scented car.

These two. I don't think I need to explain.