Jan Magnussen's son, Kevin, has signed up to McLaren's young driver programme. I wish him all the best and hope he manages to make it further than his father.

"It took until lap 28 for the alarm bells to ring. Being the only driver on a two-stops strategy, Toro Rosso's Jaime Alguersuari started his last stint on the attack and immediately set the best lap of the race until that point. He was the first man to run under the two minutes mark and was nearly half a second quicker than race leader Vettel best lap at that point. As Alguesuari's car was around 1.5 seconds slower than the best around the Sakhir track it was clear to everyone they could go much faster than they had been up to then.

"Teams passed the message to the drivers and right on the next lap Alonso set a new lap record, 0.4 seconds quicker, and nearly 0.9 seconds better than his own previous best – a clear sign that teams and drivers were playing a waiting game, for they didn't know how the tyres would last the distance."

"If ever there was an illustration of the problems of Formula 1, clinical, removed, remote, they came all wrapped up in a neat bundle this past week end."