On the contrary, I think it's fascinating the smart tricks engineers use to overcome the regulations. Mercedes double-DRS this year comes to mind, and the Red Bull's alternative version of the same concept.

Agreed, car swapping sounds a bit crazy. But in terms of regulating the juice pack, that's effectively what we have now - there's no refuelling in the race, so there's serious tactical play going on all the time, trading off the weight of extra fuel with the ability to use the engine at max power for more of the race. And the drivers deciding when they're going to use that power.

Don't forget safety. The "most uncompromising cars possible" will tend to fail catastrophically. For example, cars that use underbody aerodynamics to "suck" the car to the ground generate incredible levels of downforce - until they get too close or too far from the ground and the downforce very suddenly disappears. There are very strict regulations on this kind of thing these days.

And of course, cost is becoming a bigger and bigger factor, with regulations designed to level the playing field, at least a little bit.

I'm trying to work out if this is a typo, or a clever pun.

Either way, it works!

Yup, fair enough - as it was, I was just blown away by the fact that something on as large a scale as Amazon can work like that (granted, not a surprise to anyone versed in the matter).

But yeah, now I want more details!

So... he was playing along to a metronome?

How would you hold it?