Over this season I've migrated over to only watching the F1TV coverage and haven't switched back to the Sky feed at all anymore. I don't miss all the awkwardness over on Sky at all and the F1 coverage has caught up on anything that Sky was better at before.
Agreed, the state is probably too in love with the income.
This car feels like it was purely designed as a one-lap monster. It eats tires and apparently engines too.