Mansell - F1 too boring

It's not often you can say you agree with Nigel Mansell but this year has been worse than ever. It's not just that we hate Spoon Face and hate to see him win. I've hated drivers before. It's that he is so obviously in a different league. The last time we had any real excitement was when he broke his legs.

There is the problem of lack of overtaking, which could be helped by reintroducing slick tyres, but there's also the problem of TV coverage, which sometimes consists of lap after lap of the leader going round and round with nobody anywhere near him. If the TV coverage identified areas of genuine interest and showed that, it wouldn't be so bad.

I didn't watch any of the GP this last weekend - I was busy in DIY Hell. As soon as ou see Spoon Face is in the lead, you might as well switch off and going and do something else.

I've been watching (or listening to) F1 all my life and I'm sorry to see it comes to this. You watch it for the politicking and intrigue as much as anything, but when the pre-race build up more interesting than the actual race itself, something's gone badly wrong.