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You might call it technically dumbing down but we don't want to end up with Schumacher and Montoya sitting on the pit wall with a joystick each and the cars being totally automatic - this would be the ultimate safety for drivers and the greatest 'slot car' racing but hardly F1 as we like it! I think the key thing is to have the drivers make more difference and the engineers/software designers less.

We want interesting racing, which does not necessarily easy passing, though more than now would be good - getting the balance right is difficult. It was better when you got slipstreaming so there was some potential for a slower car with better handling could pass a car with more grunt.

Having watched F1 since Stirling Moss used to race (mostly on the TV when it was broadcast, I have to say) unfortunately as the amount of money increased in advertising the professionalism increased and less cock-ups can often mean more predictable racing.

Max's ideas are a brave attempt to spice things up but we won't know for a few races yet whether they make any real consistent difference. I was a great advocate of single lap qualifying but on the TV it was a bit boring (sorry!) maybe the commentators were not concentrating enough but there was not much action. I actually missed 10 drivers on track in the last 3 minutes setting faster times one after the other. I realise its different as a track side spectator as its more difficult to understand whats happening (at least I found it so).

Anyway lets just hope we get some more racing as we did in Melbourne (especially Kimi dicing with Schumi). Villeneuve (Giles)vs Arnoux was the best ever dice over about two laps - more please!