Thursday, March 15, 2012

F1 in 2011 needs more show, less hype

PARIS (AP) — Give the drivers push-button rockets, give them tire-slashing blades like on James Bond's Aston Martin, give them something, anything, to make Formula One more interesting next season. Please.

What a crushing anticlimax. The much-hyped but ultimately tedious season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix delivered more proof, as if more proof was needed, that the sport's fatal flaw is a continued shortage of exciting overtaking.

With four drivers in contention for the world title at this supposedly grand finale in the exotic surrounds of the Middle East, with long-shot Lewis Hamilton blustering that he was ready to drive his wheels off to win because he had nothing to lose, …

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