Kobayashi is back...

Kobayashi is back in Formula 1 and in the first race of the season he's admitted fault for the first-lap crash which ended his and Felipe Massa's race.

Tweet from McLaren (@McLarenF1)

McLaren (@McLarenF1) tweeted at 9:29 AM on Tue, Mar 11, 2014:
On this day in 1990 Ayrton Senna won the #USGP at #Phoenix after a feisty fight with Jean Alesi's Tyrrell. #F1 http://t.co/Q6D3KBKtsh

(https://twitter.com/McLarenF1/status/443317832877490176)

But why have McLaren eradicated the Marlboro logo from Senna's rear wing? Rewriting history? Just because cigarette advertising is banned in F1 now, doesn't change that it was allowed back then. Ridiculous decision.

Lewis Hamilton in Fuji

Lokks to me as though at the right hand corner, Lewis Hamilton starts a bit wider than the safety car, then tightens his line dramatically just as the safety car srtats to enter the left hand bend that follows on in the complex. Thus Lewis Hamilton found himself coming almost alongside the safety car as the safety car started to turn left, Lewis Hamilton's car being somewhat faster than the safety car and not easy to drive slowly. Lewis Hamilton found himself in a tricky position, he must not overtake the safety car whatever happens so he brakes, a bit too hard, as he goes wide in the left hand corner and then finds that there are two cars following the tighter line around the corner about to overtake him on the inside. As he tries to get back behind the safety car, the two drivers coming inside him have to brake sharply as they must not overtake him and so crash.

My verdict would be sloppy driving by Lewis Hamilton and a warning should be issued to him as to future driving.

5Live Motor Racing expert

Just a quickie... Radio5 live motoring expert was just discussing the upcoming Spanish Grand Prix and said that Lewis Hamilton had just got into his Formula One car for the first time in 26 days. This does seem unlikely, has he really not driven his car since the last Grand Prix. It is more likely he has been driving it every day in practice. Maybe the BBC expert really does think that Grand Prix drivers only drive on race weekends, maybe he is that dim.