Danny Orr is also likely to be missing for a month after damaging his shoulder against Widnes.Wigan will not be affected by Greater Manchester Police’s threat to withdraw Wigan Athletic’s safety certificate because of an unpaid £300,000 bill for policing football at the JJB Stadium. “We have an agreement that we don’t need any police,” said Wigan’s chairman, Maurice Lindsay “We are self-policing.”. “The two-weekend engine rule is to cut teams’ operating costs,” one observer said, “and penalise unreliability. At least, that is what it should say, but this is Formula One.

If an engine has to be changed before the race, the driver will be penalised 10 grid places, as happened to Michael Schumacher and Takuma Sato in Melbourne. But if an engine breaks during a race, it may be replaced without penalty.In a ludicrous “refinement”, team principals agreed on Sunday morning that you did not actually have to break an engine in the race to instal a new one for next time. Vinnie Anderson, the Kiwi international at the centre of a bitter tug-of-war between London and Bradford, has shocked them both by joining St Helens.
It was the Rugby League’s refusal to register Anderson as a Broncos player that put the spotlight on the club’s financial plight, which saw them go into liquidation last week.Bradford, who also wanted to sign Anderson, were at the forefront of the opposition to London being allowed to continue in Super League. The jury is out, but the verdict is likely to be that Formuala One’s powerbrokers have a lot more tweaking to do..

This seems an odd way of doing that.”Felipe Massa thinks the characteristics of Malaysia’s Sepang track will promote “a lot more overtaking” in the next grand prix on 20 March Let us hope so. Say you had the awful race BAR-Honda had, when Jenson Button and Takuma Sato had no chance of points, you could call in your drivers in the closing laps, and still be classified as finishers. David Coulthard labelled the new rules in Formula One “ridiculous”, Jenson Button was also scathing, and as the season kicked off in Melbourne at the weekend they were not alone in their opinions.
The new qualifying system, with one session on Saturday afternoon and a second on Sunday morning, the aggregated times deciding the grid, provoked a mixed response.Saturday’s session calls for teams to run flat-out with low fuel loads, so everyone gets a sense of where they fit in on sheer speed. More evidence is needed before judgement can be made on the qualifying changes.Then there is the rule that says teams must use the same engine for two race weekends.