When the kidding stops, who'll be on top?
Formula 1’s launch season remains a hotbed of intrigue despite the dead hand of the budget cap and the attendant limits on car development. There’s a delightful element of ‘kidology’ at play as some teams pull the wraps off cars with unusual aerodynamic features which may or may not see action on track (here’s looking at you Alfa Romeo, and your serrated floor). Others choose not to reveal their new cars at all, either through obsessive secrecy or the fact that they aren’t actually ready yet. It has always been so and yet some people in the wider world still don’t get it: step forward the Daily Express, a newspaper which has long seemed to inhabit a parallel universe. Red Bull’s new-livery-on-old-car launch moved that organ to become uncommonly vexed, as…
