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F1 pays tribute and says goodbye to the late Charlie Whiting, Race Director, FIA
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Flexy floors and impervious sieves - Whiting remembered

Our technical consultant remembers Charlie Whiting - the man who swapped pushing the F1 technical rule limits for guarding them, and maintained his focus to keep F1 at the cutting edge for four decades.

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The excitement of the first Formula 1 race of the season palled when I heard about the death of Charlie Whiting on Thursday morning.

To say it was a shock would be an understatement and I kept reading it with the hope that it was a misprint or misinformation from the other side of the world. Tragically, it wasn't.

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