That's more than a Grand Prix distance just three months after smashing up his right leg in what McLaren's Ron Dennis might call a bicycle-motor car interface scenario.

Bit suspicious don't you think? Doing all that with titanium nuts and bolts in his leg? I'm thinking this could be an Adrian Newey brainwave to improve car performance. The big problem all the teams will face this year is having to carry around 30 kilos of Kinetic Energy Recovery System gubbins, which means they can no longer move ballast around the car to alter its handling as there is literally no dead weight available.

But what if you replaced all your driver's bones with titanium rods? Massive instant weight saving! If Mack Wibber, as he's known in his homeland, tips the scales in Melbourne at a flyweight 50 kilos, we'll know that something is up...and it won't be his weight.