Formula One Features — April 2019

I left Bahrain one week ago feeling Formula One had been cheated by the final result of the race. It never feels right when the driver who deserves to win doesn't and, in the paddock, I guess we all felt for Charles Leclerc, as he crawled to third place after completely dominating qualifying and the race. Yes, I know, this sort of things used to happen all the time up to 25/30 years ago, but like everybody else I got spoiled by the tremendous reliability of the modern Formula One cars, so a retirement or sudden loss of performance for mechanical reasons, tends to be a big surprise.