Things could be looking up in Formula 1, mere days after urgent calls were being made to end a crisis. Indeed, the sport is now entering an unplanned three-week gap between Silverstone and Hungary, because the flagging F1 market in Germany meant that country's race was axed for the first time in decades. The recent trend in Germany has been for poor attendances and a rapidly-declining television audience. But suddenly, things are looking up. It emerges that 5.33 million viewers tuned into terrestrial broadcaster RTL's coverage of the British grand prix — almost half a million more than in 2014. And German media reports said the recent races in Canada and Austria were also showing an...
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