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Emissions/Kilian Doyle: I hate to say this. It's as difficult as cajoling a straight answer out of Bertie Ahern, but it has to be done. So, deep breath, here goes: I was . . . wrong.

I don't know if any of you lovely people remember, but I got great mileage out of ridiculing Formula One a few short weeks ago, deriding it as a sport where the outcome is in as much doubt as an Iraqi presidential election.