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Is F1 gambling with its integrity?

OK, in response to that headline, many of you will be shouting 'what integrity', but for now please bear with us. Twice in the last week, the social media 'twitchforks' have been raised in anger at the sport's powers-that-be. The first time was in reaction to the update to the official live timing app that has actually taken it back to the dark ages, while the second was in reaction to the news that the sport has agreed a rumoured $100m deal to allow in-race betting. In the same way that the majority of the online reaction to the app update was negative, so too the reaction to the gambling deal. In a nutshell, fans are baffled that a company that proudly declared from its high horse that...
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