BAR's recent two-race suspension, handed down after Jenson Button's car was found to be underweight at the San Marino GP, has again underlined the ill-will permeating the world of F1 at present. BAR's paymasters at Honda recently aligned themselves with the GPWC, and many observers are speculating that this provoked the FIA to bring the team before the appeals court. This is not just a simple matter of an underweight car; like everything in F1, there's more to this story than meets the eye.

With three races completed in Formula One in 2005, there?s talk that changes might be in the winds. A new front-running squad has emerged and whispers are starting that maybe, just maybe, they can wrest the F1 crowns from Ferrari and Michael Schumacher.