Another new Formula One season of course means a litany of new faces, new rules and new sources of technical moaning. Patronise F1 takes a brief and non-precise look at the major new issues for the 2012 season.

F1 fans, in the UK anyway, face an unprecedented decision in 2012, as for the first time ever two rival TV broadcasters go head-to-head in showing the sport. But which is the better package? Patronise F1 decides.

The twelfth and final team on the 2012 Formula One grid is another to have undergone a name change for the new season, but whatever you call them, their approach to the new campaign is still 'virgin' on ridiculous.

All that remains for Patty's epic team-by-team trawl through the 2012 grid is the troubled pair of backmarkers, starting with the Spanish team named after a hormone treatment, still searching for some direction in the sport.

Patty's epic team-by-team previews are nearly at an end, you'll be very much pleased to hear. For our latest missive, we look at the newly-renamed Caterham Formula One team, who are fighting to be taken seriously this season.

Patronise F1's overly-extensive team-by-team preview of the 2012 Formula One grid arrives at the historic Williams outfit, the last one of the teams to actually manage to score points last season. Not that they scored many of them.

Patronise F1's team-by-team preview through the F1 field races towards something approaching a typically disappointing conclusion with a look at the Red Bull junior team, who have taken a gamble on youth for the 2012 season.

Patronise F1 ticks off yet another team in its rampantly thorough 2012 season preview, this time taking a look at Formula One's perennial midfielders from Switzerland, who combine two exciting drivers with one very dull car.

Patty's hurried shuffle through the competitors in the 2012 season winds its way to Force India, a team seeking to keep up their forward momentum towards the front of the grid with a youthful driver pairing this year.

On and on goes Patronise F1's unnecessarily-long season preview, as we now turn our attention to the possible dark horses at the Lotus team. And this time around they are the one and only Lotus team on the grid, we promise.