Depending on a few legal issues between now and the start of the season, Colin Chapman's old Team Lotus name will be back on the grid in 2011. And Tony Fernandes will be hoping this year goes better than the name's last F1 campaign.

This weekend marks the seventh running of the German GP at nu-Hockenheim, since the track was redesigned by that most renowned of F1 track tinkerers Hermann Tilke. But is all the whining really fair? Was the old track actually any good?

With a brand new American Tilkedrome likely to be on the calendar for the 2012 season, and with the track design likely to be almost instantly forgettable, Patronise F1 pays tribute to Watkins Glen, Formula One's spiritual American home.

Throughout Michael Schumacher's years in the sport, he has had plenty of "debatable" moments. And now, with him returning for 2010, perhaps it is time to revisit his most dubious hours and see whether they really were as bad as we all said they were.

The new Ferrari livery is awful, there is little doubt about that. But then, in a sense, all Ferrari liveries are awful these days. Because they're the wrong colour. PatroniseF1 reminisces about when Ferrari red was Ferrari red.

In the latest of PatroniseF1's reappraisals of things past, our newest contributer, The Ankle, takes a look at Jacques Villeneuve. With an unlikely comeback talked about for 2010, was the dodgily-haired Canadian really all that bad?

The qualifying format has been twisted and changed a stupid amount of times over the last few years, with limited success, and most fans think that it still isn't right. But one of the ideas used was actually a fantastic idea.

Gaining an entry onto the F1 grid is the ultimate accolade for any motorsport outfit. Just ask Manor Motorsport. But back in 2002, hopes of a new team were ruined in one of the most farcical attempts to crack the grid in history.

In the latest in our rarely-written series on Patty's pages, in which we will take a look back at drivers, teams, tracks, seasons and anything else that slipped off the F1 radar without a proper send-off, The Head recalls the maligned Austrian track.