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All I see from Red Bull's announcement about team orders, plus Vettel's attitude about the subject is that the team have merely given Vettel a license to do whatever he pleases. If that means we get great and intense fighting on track between Vettel and Webber then I'm fine with that.

So because Vettel dared to overtake, now there'll be no team orders for the rest of the year?

Let's be honest, Red Bull has never really been successful in the whole team orders issue anyway!

I feel like Senna in 1991

This might seem like a stupid question, but have those big buildings you see in the background as you look at the front straight from turn 1 to last corner always been there?

Maybe there is just less pollution and we can see further into the distance.

I didn't realise there were 30-40 story skyscrapers in the immediate background.

2 posts from FP1, and I don't understand what they're about. Dare to explain guys ?

The death this week of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher can point to only one outcome for superstitious Formula One gamblers and lovers of bizarre sporting statistics - a victory for Lotus in Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix.

A flick through the sport's record books shows that the last four deaths of former British premiers have been followed immediately by victory on the racetrack for the team from Enstone.

Edward Heath's demise on July 17, 2005 was followed on July 24 by success for Fernando Alonso in Germany with Renault, the team that is now Lotus and operates from the same English factory.

James Callaghan's death on March 26, 2005 came just before Alonso won in Bahrain for Renault.

In October 1995, Alec Douglas-Home passed away and Michael Schumacher won for Benetton, the team that went on to become Renault. Earlier that year, Schumacher triumphed in Monaco four days after Harold Wilson died.

Going back even further, the first race held after the death of Clement Attlee in October 1967 was won by...Britain's Jim Clark in a Lotus.

Still not convinced enough to take a flutter on Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen or Romain Grosjean in a country famed for its love of gambling? Then consider this - Thatcher's son Mark was once the chairman of Lotus cars in North America.

The morbid prime ministerial statistic follows another popular one that did the rounds of the F1 media centre before the season-opening Australian Grand Prix that linked papal conclaves with grand prix racing.

Three of the last five papal conclaves before the election of Pope Francis were followed by either victories for Lotus or a team from Enstone.

True to form, Raikkonen won this year's Australian season-opener only days after the Argentine pontiff was installed.

British bookmakers William Hill offered odds of 7/1 on Thursday on Raikkonen winning in China with Grosjean at 33/1. Red Bull's world champion Sebastian Vettel is 15/8 favourite.

Where I come from, 15 of what I would consider "towns" could fit in those skyscrappers, I didn't realise they could build cities so quick!