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The Malaysian Grand Prix was bizarre in so many ways: underpowered Red Bull winning on a track with many full-throttle sections; Mercedes struggling badly on a circuit that features enough high-speed corners and straights to ordinarily suit its strengths; Ferrari dropping yet more points in the world championship thanks to freak engine failures on a weekend where it undoubtedly had the fastest car.
That the race finished with Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari stranded on the track with its left-rear corner folded over the top of the car, after a collision on the slowing down lap, somehow encapsulated the strangeness of Formula 1's final race in Malaysia.
First to Mercedes, which should have been back on form with F1 returning to a more conventional race circuit, following the street fighting of Singapore a fortnight earlier, when Lewis Hamilton opportunistically won a race he had no business winning until Ferrari imploded at the start.
