[Matth]

The slimmest lineup ever, 10 teams, 20 drivers, and with Manor as the single back marker team, there will be no battle at the back.

F1 is dying, and there seems little that can be done to halt the decline that began with the loss of big-money tobacco sponsorship, and now alcohol sponsorship is in the firing line.

It's an expensive sport, and needs sponsors with deep pockets, the era of the gentleman racer giving way to the era of the "flying fag packet", and now the slimmer pickings of the car companies racing for prestige, drinks companies, fuel & oil companies