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The Era of No-Swerve

We all like a bit of overtaking – agreed? One of the reasons for the introduction of the DRS was so that we wouldn’t have processional races, highlighted by the 2010 title decider in Abu Dhabi when Fernando Alonso covered Mark Webber’s early pit-stop then trailed round for most of the race behind Vitaly Petrov’s Lotus which was faster on the straights. Like many former Autosport magazine readers I grew up reading the views of Nigel Roebuck their F1 editor (now Editor in Chief of Motor Sport magazine) and he was always banging on about braking distances. It was bad enough that the emphasis on aerodynamics didn’t allow cars to follow closely, but couple that with highly efficient...
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