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MIKE RUTHERFORD
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|October 08, 2025
MOTORING'S MOST OUTSPOKEN COLUMNIST AND FOUNDING MEMBER OF AUTO EXPRESS
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MUCH as I love Formula One, it’s nowhere near as productive, cost-effective, flexible and entertaining as it needs to be in the mid-2020s.
During most Grand Prix weekends, which last three largely uneventful days and nights, there's typically only one and a half hours of actual F1 racing.
Some under-performing, serial losing teams - each with around 1,000 employees doing heaven knows what - have to massively up their game. And their drivers need and deserve more time and opportunity, and to, er, race in more diverse fleets of machines.
This story is from the October 08, 2025 edition of Auto Express.
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