Alvin's Formula One Blog

The season is over and it's been weeks without a race. The end of the year is coming up again and the streets will be a madhouse on the eve. I'm staying home as I always do. Just can't stomach the madness. It's gonna a long drag to the season opener in March. News is thin on the ground these days, nothing much to read during my breakfast. So thanks to Joshua Mason, we're getting a guest post today on his take on the BBC and F1 divorce. DON’T TELL THE KIDS!: BBC AND FORMULA 1 ARE GETTING A DIVORCE The kids are crying, there is arguing in the kitchen and the solicitors are rubbing their hands in glee, yes it is that old British tradition, divorce! The two parties involved are the BBC and Formula 1. A sporting marriage longer than most, (apart from a small break in the noughties) is coming to an end and this time it seems to be for good. The news that BBC had cancelled the remainder of its contract came fast, and so did the news that Formula 1 had already...

Wednesday 18th March 2009 Former Formula One team boss Eddie Jordan believes Lewis Hamilton would have won last year's World Championship even if this season's new rules had been in place. On Tuesday, motor sport's governing body the FIA changed the way the world drivers' champion will be decided, bringing in a new rule that the title will go to the driver with the most grand prix wins over the course of the season. In the wake of that decision - labelled "good for the sport" by Jordan - many pointed out that had such a scheme had been in use in 2008, Hamilton would have lost out to Felipe Massa, the Brazilian having won six races to Hamilton's five. However, Jordan told talkSPORT radio station on Wednesday that Hamilton would have approached the last race in Brazil much differently had he and Massa gone into it level pegging on five wins each. As it was Hamilton led Massa by seven points at ...