Phil: Don't worry, my co-blogger wasn't talking about our relationship. We are still very much loved up.
In answer to where all the romance went, it's tempting to identify one of Bernie Ecclestone's more private parts. But the truth is, I don't think it was ever there: cash has always been king in Formula 1. We both know why Hispania dropped Bruno Senna, and it's nothing to do with his performance on the track. Sakon Yamamoto's sponsors (who are rumoured to include Honda*) simply offered more money than Senna's, and for a team such as Hispania which is unlikely to achieve anything this season anyway and who probably struggle to pay the wage bill each month, that's all that matters.
Hispania's car has been so dire that it's all but impossible to get any idea of how good, or otherwise, Senna actually is. But I feel optimistic we haven't seen the last of the Senna name in F1.
*Honda have a habit of favouring crap Japanese drivers over promising non-Japanese ones: my co-blogger, who was raised on F1 from an early age, will probably recall Satoru Nakajima's distinctly unmemorable tenure at Lotus in 1987. His teammate? None other than Ayrton Senna.
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