[Jody Barton]

I'm not a "fan" of the Mercedes livery, but they do at least put out a "sleek" looking car every year. I've always been a fan of the "Martini Livery" in Motorsport, obviously the Marlborough McLarens have a place in my heart too. Recently I thought last year's McLaren looked good. This year I think most of them look a bit meh. I think the reason people like the Alpha Tauri livery is because it's "new" more than anything else.

As to Gary Anderson, he's useful for pointing out new parts of the car, but there are way better analysts out there, and most of them have noticed Mercedes have complete different side pods, and completely new front and rear suspension, which quite frankly tells me that Anderson's belief not much has changed on the Mercedes is woefully misguided. There's also the fact that the changes we've seen on both the Red Bull and Ferrari are driven by what Mercedes did last year. Admittedly those Mercedes sidepods are "borrowed" from Ferrari, but something tells me Anderson doesn't like Allison. He was rude about his Ferrari cars and he was rude about his Lotuses.

Either way Anderson hasn't exactly covered himself with technical glory recently, especially last year where he was corrected by James Key about the front wing philosophies of the various teams, because he got them horridly wrong with what the teams were doing. I'll be interested to see how all the teams get on in winter testing, mainly mileage as always, and how smoothly they get through their various programs. We won't really be able to tell where these cars are at now until probably Zandvoort. We're missing China, which as an early track coupled with Bahrain and Melbourne told us a lot about the various cars fundamentals.

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PS, scrap what I said, I though Baku was before Zandvort, it's not, it's after Monaco. I think that's when we'll get a true rounded picture. Christ seven races in.