To radio or no radio is the big question in Singapore Formula 1's intended clampdown on performance communications between teams and drivers has been dubbed ‘Radio Ga-Ga' up and down the bemused paddock. After the teams protested the speed and extremity with which Bernie Ecclestone and the governing FIA wielded the radio axe, it was agreed on the eve of practice in Singapore that messages related to car performance would now be allowed. 'Formula 1's curious reputation for disposing of something simple and replacing it with something far more complex is in robust health,' said Paul Weaver, correspondent for the Guardian newspaper. It means that while radio calls about the performance...
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