I've got to be honest, I've not watched any of the F1 this season so far. In previous years I would, but my mind is telling me there are plenty of other things I could be doing on a Sunday than watching fairly dull races

Record and scan is the way ahead then if it's dull you can nip through and stop and rewind when you see a good overtake or crazy off.

Bernie and Jean Todt have apparently now caved in to the teams on the qualifying format and have agreed that they should go back to the old system "in the interests of the championship", subject to approval by the FIA - so it may or not be changed in time for next weekends race. Their original proposal after Bahrain was a different system wherby each drivers two fastest laps would be aggregated rather than just going off one lap to give their time, but the teams jointly said it was too complicated and said enough was enough, causing the F1 management to back down.

Chinsese race this weekend. Bits of news: FIA have approved the change back to last years qualifying system, Alonso should be back racing again, and more bad news for Hamilton with a five place grid drop for changing his gearbox.

Rosberg on pole, with Ricciardo 2nd, Raikkonen 3rd and Vettel 4th. Hamilton with it all to do starting last after he wasn't able to set any time in Q1 due to techinical issues he had. Anyone else see Hulkenbergs front wheel deciding it wanted to go quicker down the track than the rest of the car?

At the front, Rosberg ran away with it by some distance without even having to try, but other than that it was a really good race I thought, so much action going on and lots of overtaking. Loved the ding dong between Vettel and Kvyat in the green room after the race!

Yeh an intresting race if you ignored the winner, shame Hamiltons wing went under the car or we may have seen moor from him..... The pre podium back room kick off was brilliant !!!

I need to get myself up to speed with this. I've been way too busy so far this year but I shall aim to try and get involved.

Russia this weekend. Hamilton fastest by a big margin 0.65 seconds from Vettel, with Rosberg third fastest. Vettel also facing a five place grid drop after changing his gearbox.

Rosberg starts in 1st today, with Bottas 2nd and Raikkonnen 3rd quickest. Hamilton dropped out of Q3 after his engine went kaput the same as in China. Vettel finished 2nd, but drops down with his grid penalty, and was a huggggge 0.7 seconds adrift of Rosberg. With that kind of pace, barring technical problems today, probably only a question of who finishes 2nd in the race (and indeed the championship!).

Rosberg did win it comfortably in the end, but a great drive from Hamilton to get it up to 2nd. When he started cutting into Rosbergs lead I assumed it was just because of trafic, but once they'd both worked their way through and his lead had gone from 12 to 7 seconds in the matter of a few laps, I thought we could be in for an interesting end to the race, and was a shame Hamilton had bad luck once again with the water presuure issue, and had to just nurse the car home. Nice to see both McLarens make it into the points also. Best moment of the race was Vettels reaction to the crash with Kyvat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZlKH8QlfBs

Blistering pace from Hamiliton to be in pole today. Rosberg 2nd, and Ricciardo third - he seemed somewhat delighted on the radio at having finished ahead of young Max.

Then they take each other out on first corner but great win by Verstappen for Red Bull really wanna see battles fair battles with the mercs

Yes, could see that coming again for a while, though agreed with Martin Brundle that Rosberg was more at fault than Hamilton. Great win for Verstappen though, surely a future world champion.

Oh dear Max.