Unlike many other Formula One fans, I’m keeping an open mind about the move to turbo engines this season.  The last turbo era was when I fell in love with the sport, after all.

That said, this preview of the new Mercedes-Benz engine note isn’t encouraging:

Hopefully the racing will be good enough to make up for what sounds like a really, really big Dyson.  For my money, they will never top the Chrysler-Lamborghini V12 from the early 1990s:

Ayrton Senna wanted McLaren to use this engine halfway through the 1993 season, and Ron Dennis had a handshake deal for Lamborghini power in 1994 – until he went with the ill-fated Peugeot motor instead.  Who knows what might have been?