You can’t teach an old dog a new trick, or so the saying goes. However the Formula One authorities are hoping that they can teach F1 a new trick, the trick is to level the playing field and to make the sport more exciting. With the aid of a book full of new rules and regulations they hope to inject some more spills and thrills into the biggest sporting circus on the face of the planet.

I however don’t know that it is possible to make F1 any more exciting, if any more stress is added to the sport I will surely be sent to an early grave through my heart stopping for a wholly unhealthy amount of time! But with the new rules cutting down on all manner of things like tyre grip, I’d better look at watching the races with a doctor because it looks like the rule makers may have injected the desired amount of excitement, and in a dose to strain even the best defibrillator!

The action commences this weekend in Australia. Round one has for the last two years has started down under in explosive fashion. In 1996 Damon Hill and the then new boy, Jacques Villeneuve, battled out one of the most exciting duels I have ever seen… [Click here to continue reading this article at 'Meanwhile']