If the Formula 1 news agenda were a weather system, right now it would be trapped in an anticyclonic gloom. Until the new-generation machines start running on track competitively, as opposed to pottering around on different run plans as they were in testing, the unknowns remain stubbornly unknown.
Only the ongoing slow-motion car crash that is Aston Martin has provided a narrative which moves on rather than churning its wheels in the proverbial gravel.
