How pleasing if the Red Bull express train is to be diverted, however briefly, it should be within the seething cauldron of passion in front of the Ferrari faithful here, rather than to indifference at a soulless, empty enormodrome in the desert.
With the Scuderia’s Carlos Sainz claiming pole for the Italian Grand Prix in dramatic and impossibly tense fashion, the Spaniard will have felt an outpouring of emotion washing over him as he climbed from his car.
