Okay, Malaysia was pretty good, almost mid-80's like and Oz was wizardly but will China 2010 be as exciting? With rain on the horizon will the wizardry continue, perhaps, or will Shanghai shortly reveal a new complexion to the season. So far, all has been fairly status quo, more or less. Teams with the most miles in pre-season were slightly ahead and so on...

Last race Red Bull caught up and Mercedes is said to be ready with a B spec car by Spain. Ferrari, with Alonso on his back foot with engine supply and a re-surgent Massa look the strongest all around, though three races on the trot and a few technical issues have emerged at the Scuderia.

Mclaren is a little bit lost, it seems, at least distracted which through the confusion saw Jenson Button win his first race with them. That f-duct sure gves them serious top-end and in China that could prove useful, should they get near Red Bull.

Vettel and Weber both go well here, and without any significant progress since Malaysia, we can presume that another one two may be in the cards.

Kubica may be there too and maybe Rosberg and Schumi, who quietly is getting back up to speed. The mid-field is very close and highly competitive with the newbies not too far behind either.

To this point F1 has delivered a decent show all things considered and has generated enough in the away from the track stuff to keep it in the newspapers, for the most part. 

It hasn't been super amazing awesome but then again nothing else really is either yet with so many world champions in this year's field F1 still has got the upper hand when it comes to the truly best drivers in the world, technical overload aside.