Formula One could easily be made more interesting and competitive, simply by having 20 races, and each driver drive one race in each car (It’s the Christian Horner paradox: F1 is now hideously dull, but the drama has never been better, 5 March). The constructors’ championship could go on as usual, but the drivers’ championship would finally be decided on ability (and luck). Obviously financial factors would never allow this to happen.
Rebecca Carter
Didcot, Oxfordshire
• Zoe Williams’ article on red carpet interviews (6 March) reminded me that Robert Smith of the Cure was ambushed at the band’s 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony by a thoroughly over-caffeinated TV reporter. “Are you as excited as I am?” she screeched, sticking a microphone in his face. “By the sound of it, no,” he calmly replied.
Paul Slade
London
• Re Adrian Chiles’ article on fat-shaming (6 March), when I was teaching, a student once called me “a fat, old cunt”. When the boy was told to return and apologise to me, he said “Sorry I called you old, Mr L.”
Keith Langton
Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway
• This was a budget to appeal to families (Budget 2024, 6 March). Five families.
Jude Carr
London
• I’ve noticed lately that some of the brief letters have not been so brief. Will this do?
Beverley Davies
Staverton, Devon
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