He's just having a pre-season breakdown. The signs have been there for a while. He'll be fine when Vettel gets pole at Aus (unless someone doesn't give 100% credit to Vettel in which case the end of the internet is nigh)
If anything, surely Silver should have the least to be worried about? The Mercedes has looked very good in pre-season, and even with fuel loads supposedly accounted for I've seen several predictions of big finishes in Melbourne. Coupled with that Red Bull are definitely holding back, and have a car that looks very strong on the circuit, and surely he's cruising?
Maybe he's using us as part of his psychological studies to see what our reaction is to his name change and what his new name implies? We're all just laboratory mice to him and he's playing with us.
Ive read through the posts and It looks like a huge overreaction. Maybe a bit of time to chill is a good thing. P.s I will be banning Andrew Benson from the forum for being a Wum
If he had to change his name, shouldn't it have been something more appropriate like I an Argument or Duel to the Death?
so... 1 week to go and 400 posts later on this thread and what have we learnt? - Sexism in F1 is ok as there are no decent female drivers - Cosicave is not jack Brabham - The BBC and SKY hate Vettel Well we are all set I guess
You may have seen this face before on this forum Benson is the BBC's 'Chief F1 writer' (I suspect only writer, actually). You can find his, er, pearls of wisdom and desperate attempts to create drama where there is none at http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/