Brmm, brmm...

Is Formula One dying?  Rumour has it that the drivers are unhappy, the teams are unhappy and the spectators are unhappy.  The sport (if that's what it is any more) is regulated to death.  For many years it hasn't been a competition for drivers, but for cars, or more accurately for designers.  You only have to look at Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button languishing at the back of the field to see what's wrong.  Two top class drivers without a hope - not just of winning, but even of scoring any points. And at the other end of the scale, you could stick just about any of the drivers in a Mercedes and they'd be there or thereabouts.  What to do?  Well, allow mid-season development for a start, allow teams to make their own choice of tyre supplier, and maybe decide the makeup of the starting grid by lot.  But unless something is done, people are going to start voting with their feet - in fact some of them are already doing so it seems.