The high-pitched whine of Formula 1 engines was suspiciously absent from the Circuit de Catalunya on the outskirts of Barcelona earlier this month during a testing session for the coming Grand Prix season. A thick blanket of fog covered the course, and the racing teams waited idly for it to clear, making last-second tweaks before testing resumed. Mother Nature doesn’t often concern herself with metaphors, but this scene was eerily apt.
The sport has endured some rough weather in recent years. First came the retirement of its biggest star, Michael Schumacher, and uncertainty over whether a marquee name would replace him. Then there was Spygate — a 2007 scandal in which the McLaren team was alleged to have … Details
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