The British press hit out at tyre-dominated nature of F1 after 2013 Spanish GP

The increasingly contentious nature of F1 circa 2013 has been picked apart by the British press in the wake of the tyre-dominated Spanish GP, with the widespread suggestion being that the sport has now gone too far in its pursuit of drama and unpredictability.

Meanwhile, the Guardian's Paul Weaver claimed that the sport's recent attempts to spice up the show had finally combined to make an F1 race 'contrived and tedious' with the spectacle at times bewildering. 'To be fair to Pirelli, it was given the brief to make the sport more entertaining, to get away from the monotony we saw in the Ferrari-dominated days at the start of the century. But at least that was real. 'What we have now is contrived and tedious. It means that only the start of the race and the final burst, when the cars finally start racing after their final stops, are compelling. You may as well watch a football match for the 90 minutes in between times. 'F1 drivers are now finding life so tricky that words such as "confusing", "mess" and "frustrating" are popping up from those in the sharp end of the cars, who are growing increasingly fed up with engineers warning them to back off to save tyres.'