God forbid that we provoke Messrs Carter and Gastaldi at Lotus, but without wishing to put a total dampener on things, the prospects this afternoon don't look that encouraging. It is highly unlikely that F1 is going to go in to the summer break with the same feel-good factor. Naturally, the death of Jules Bianchi, the first driver fatality the result of an accident during an F1 race in twenty-one years, had already cast a cloud over the event. However, in the wake of an interesting, incident-filled race at Silverstone, many claimed the sport had rediscovered the 'wow' factor, that all was good and that the media was responsible for all the negativity anyway. Nonetheless, the fact remained...
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