The 2016 Formula 1 World Championship season kicked off in Australia and with it came an all new team, a revamped team, new drivers and of course the inevitable new controversies.
As the dust has now settled and we look back on the Melbourne weekend, what emerges as the ‘hot topic” is not that we appear to have a Mercedes versus Ferrari battle on our hands, or the outstanding debut of the Haas F1 Team, or the return of the glorious yellow of Renault - among the myriad of cool things that weekend one conjured - instead we are all lamenting the bizarre farce that was qualifying.
Worse is that the inexcusable flop will carry on to at least Bahrain as the powers that be try to save face, despite huge criticism of the new format from everywhere and especially the fans.
We are not going to allow this to spoil our re-born GPI Illustrated edition which we will produce once again after a couple of years hiatus.
We have everything worth quoting from Nico, Lewis and Seb after their exploits Down
