Well, well, well. So the Renault engine in the Red Bull car is 10kg per race more fuel efficient than the Ferrari giving it an estimated 9.8 seconds advantage over the course of the Bahrain G.P. Which is why, according to the BBC’s Ted Kravitz (are you going to go my way, Ted, are you?) the race, toward the end “would have been rather exciting,” had the Renault engine lasted the distance.

Which it didn’t. The point being that fuel loads would have evened out and the Ferrari being the same weight.

So Ted, perhaps we should just make the races 10 laps long and start everyone off with the same amount of fuel. Perhaps they could also play loud music and serve popcorn and hot-dogs. Or perhaps we could just have a race that starts at the beginning, goes on for a while and finishes at the end. It’s not the ‘tortoise and the hare,’ it’s Formula 1. Maybe it would be more exciting if they were all forced to use steering wheels from Juan Manuel Fangio’s Alfa Romeos and only get information from their team at pit-stops.

That would put the cat among the pigeons methinks.