Throughout Michael Schumacher's years in the sport, he has had plenty of "debatable" moments. And now, with him returning for 2010, perhaps it is time to revisit his most dubious hours and see whether they really were as bad as we all said they were.
The new Ferrari livery is awful, there is little doubt about that. But then, in a sense, all Ferrari liveries are awful these days. Because they're the wrong colour. PatroniseF1 reminisces about when Ferrari red was Ferrari red.
In the latest of PatroniseF1's reappraisals of things past, our newest contributer, The Ankle, takes a look at Jacques Villeneuve. With an unlikely comeback talked about for 2010, was the dodgily-haired Canadian really all that bad?
The qualifying format has been twisted and changed a stupid amount of times over the last few years, with limited success, and most fans think that it still isn't right. But one of the ideas used was actually a fantastic idea.
Gaining an entry onto the F1 grid is the ultimate accolade for any motorsport outfit. Just ask Manor Motorsport. But back in 2002, hopes of a new team were ruined in one of the most farcical attempts to crack the grid in history.
In the latest in our rarely-written series on Patty's pages, in which we will take a look back at drivers, teams, tracks, seasons and anything else that slipped off the F1 radar without a proper send-off, The Head recalls the maligned Austrian track.
The 1999 season is remembered as the championship that nobody wanted to win, with competitors spinning, crashing, and breaking their legs in an effort to avoid the title. But is that really a fair reflection of the year as a whole?
Kicking off a brand new semi-irregular feature on Patronise, in which we reassess past moments of the sport with the help of our rose-tinted spectacles, The Head takes a moment to remember why 1997 was F1 at it's best.
