Honda's back! (but I remain to be convinced it's trully saved)

At first glance this seems like amazing news - the Team Formerly Known as Honda is back from the dead. But look deeper and cracks begin to appear. The outfit will be "funded by a combination of sponsors and F1 commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone", which means one thing: no big manufacturer/millionaire is backing the team. Now, unless Grandpa Bernie wants to revisit his glory days as Brabham team owner, this just screams "shoestring budget" to me. And, in a delightful sense of ironic symmetry, this is exactly what Honda's B-team Super Aguri was at the beginning of only the last season. And we all know how far they got...


Still, on the bright side, the grid will be bigger (for now, at least), young Bruno Senna will probably get a shot at F1 and Force India will no longer qualify last in every event.