Bad news Mr. Ecclestone

[OilyFingers]

Its all about BabyFingers. He is 19 months old and for most things has the attention span of a goldfish until it comes to cars and in particular, racing.

It all started watching those Swiss Hillclimb vids on youtube. For the first time in his life he sat still for a whole ten minutes occasionally pointing at the screen and saying 'car' (his second ever word after duck) or 'brum'. He'll run across the room and sit next to me as soon as he hears a screaming 4 pot. To this end I put the F1 on for him, he could not have been less interested.

He jumps up at the window everytime he hears a. vee twin bike or a big bore exhaust, laughs when a carb fed classic roles by and I now know he is absolutely enthralled by touring cars after watching qualifying on ITV.com to the point that he cried when it finished. Now I get bored watching F1 so I tend not to these days but if it doesn't register on the radar of a small boy who will happily sit and watch a race prepped RWD Kadett that doesn't look good for the future of F1 but it does look good for my sunday afternoons.

[majic79]

Good on him - last years F1 wasn't too bad for a dozen cars going round in circles.

I expect you'll be watching Madness on Wheels at 9pm Sunday on BBC4 - all about the good old days of Group B rallying

[Renrut]

Maybe Ecclestone is aware, F1 is supposed to be going to 4 pot turbos in a few years. And a 12,000 rpm limit. And a 1.6 capacity limit.

[OilyFingers]

I expect you'll be watching Madness on Wheels at 9pm Sunday on BBC4 - all about the good old days of Group B rallying

I am now.