If you’d asked me a year ago what my opinion was of Formula One, I would have probably said that I didn’t really see the point and wasn’t it a massive waste of fuel to drive round and round in a circle for a couple of hours?
However, due to the combined influence of a keen teenage son and Netflix’s glorious soap opera, Drive to Survive, I have become an avid fan and now find myself making knowledgeable pronouncements like ‘Ferrari’s tyre strategy is all over the place this season’!
November marks the final race of this year’s F1 season at Abu Dhabi, the location for last year’s highly contentious end to the season which saw Lewis Hamilton narrowly miss out on winning eight world championships. The current Drivers’ Championship was pretty much in the bag for Max Verstappen from halfway through the year, but I find the Constructors’ Championship more interesting, relying as it does on points scored collaboratively by both team drivers.
When did you last get lost in a good book?
A YouGov poll in 2025 stated that 40% of UK adults have not read or listened to a single book …