If you qualify one-two for a Formula 1 race, logic dictates you should head home with a victory trophy in your hands.
Mercedes locked out the front row for the first time this season, with the biggest pace advantage we've seen so far in 2017, yet somehow it was Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari that left Bahrain grasping the spoils of glory.
That Mercedes departed the Bahrain Grand Prix without one of its drivers having stood atop the podium is a situation that owes itself to what team boss Toto Wolff called "a perfect storm" of "many marginal losses" through the early phase of the race.