Professional racing drivers are supreme athletes, they and their personal trainers monitor every aspect of their fitness to enable them to cope with the extreme demands motor racing places on their bodies, so it seems inconceivable that an F1 driver would knowingly take performance enhancing drugs…

Yesterday I said it was time for Formula One to stand up and tell the the FIA it is wrong in deciding it was appropriate to hold a Bahrain Grand Prix this year. So did they? Well… not in exactly those words…

Well I suppose nobody can say Bahrain was boring this year. The drivers don’t seem to want to go. Some of the teams don’t seem to want to go either. Even Max Mosley thinks it is a terrible idea. Only Bernie Ecclestone appeared to be keen, that is until the FIA decided to reschedule the Bahrain Grand Prix to the end of October – cue some degree of Ecclestone backtracking…

Seems that the FIA may be keen for the Indian Grand Prix to move to the end of the year in order to accommodate a rescheduled Bahrain race. The plan would be that the Middle Eastern race would take India’s current October 30 slot, Abu Dhabi and Brazil would keep their current dates, while India would then be moved to December 4 giving an even later finish to the season. What the teams will make of such a suggestion has yet to be publicised but here are my thoughts…

Every motorist has thoughts of driver safety hidden somewhere in the back of his or her mind; we have an expectation that roadside safety equipment intended to protect or minimise serious injury in the event of an accident should do just that and not exacerbate any injury. However, as Robert Kubica’s accident on Sunday proved, safety barriers can on occasion, cause more damage than the initial impact.

At the heart of the matter is the type of barrier and whether or not it’s fit for purpose; safety barriers of the type …

The FIA has published the full decision of the World Motor Sport Council regarding Ferrari’s use of team orders at Hockenheim and it makes interesting reading. Not least is the revelation that, contrary to Jean Todt’s claim that there was insufficient evidence to punish Ferrari further, there was agreement that team orders had been used and that Ferrari had manipulated the race result. Despite this, the WMSC opted to hold back on a further punishment as there had been other examples of ‘what could have been said to be team …