Mark Hughes: F1's Inside Line
"Renault would still be in trouble even with Alonso - there's no way he could have found 1.5sec per lap"
The competitive hierarchy of the Formula 1 teams has rarely been so transparent. After the first three grands prix it's very clear that Ferrari and McLaren are out front, with BMW some way adrift in third but a long way out of reach of the rest.
It is in the group behind BMW where the intrigue currently lies: there are five teams - Red Bull, Renault, Super Aguri, Toyota and Williams - that really cannot be split, and for much of the first stint of the Bahrain Grand Prix we saw them pretty much in one long line.
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