BUXTON: Why 2023 has all the ingredients to be an outstanding F1 season

After three long months of waiting, and the anticipation that’s built throughout that time, testing could not have come soon enough. It passed in a relative blur, those three days providing as many questions as answers over the relative performance potential that exists in the field, and with the opening race now only a matter of days away, that anticipation has morphed into expectation and excitement.

Before the cars had even hit the track, we were already keenly aware of certain key narratives for the season, but with the knowledge we now have over the relative competitiveness of every team, each has now started to form a unique, and in some cases unexpected, path.