article_snippet: F1 has taken a pounding from the public and pundits since the processional opening race in Melbourne a fortnight ago.
article_snippet: Italy’s love affair with motor racing, could be another victim.
article_snippet: There is no way of reining in Hamilton’s Mercedes team or of spreading the prize-money more evenly.
article_snippet: It’s not good blaming Mercedes.
article_snippet: even if the best package means that Renault leave the sport as managing director Cyril Abiteboul hinted on Friday, if ‘
article_snippet: Formula One is that bad for our reputation’.
article_snippet: There are few cares in Hamilton’s Mercedes’s world.
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