Frosted: It's having a pretty dramatic effect. As of next year the ING Renault F1 Team .. won't be the ING anything anymore. ING are also dropping sponsorship of a number of races. There's companies dropping left, right and centre. Williams won't have RBS strewn down the side of their car anymore, and a number of others are walking. It's challenging times for all racing teams as corporations globally tighten their purse strings.

GAK: I thought it was a fantastic race, and I have to agree Hamilton did pretty well. He was helped massively by the first safety car bunching up the field though, at that point he was quite a bit behind the group of cars infront of him, which allowed him to jump them at the first corner after the restart.

I went along on Friday night and Saturday, watched the qualifying etc (where I took the picture above). They weren't as loud this year, but they were still obviously fast. F1 is a great spectacle, even my girlfriend enjoyed coming along and seeing the cars on Sat.

I only live a couple of KM from the track, so it was surprising that I couldn't hear them at all this year. Usually it's very loud. I don't know what caused that, I doubt dropping max RPM by 1500 made that big a difference. At least the "Save Albert Park" people will have less to bitch about.