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Formula One held the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, delayed it an hour and forty minutes for rain, and then watched half the grid crawl down the main straight at walking pace because a software bug took the power away. Lewis Hamilton called it a Lego race. Max Verstappen won it — his first victory in eleven months and the 72nd of his career — after losing the lead at Turn 1 and taking it back at the lap-nine restart. Kimi Antonelli finished second and extended his championship lead to 84 points, because George Russell's power unit failed while he was running third with five laps remaining. Lewis Hamilton started on slicks in the wet, fell to the back, and climbed all the way to the podium. Greeny and Cheese cover the FIA's software fix, the Quizmaster's Cockpit on Sepang and the Malaysian Grand Prix, Winners and Losers, the Slap of the Week, and a Greenybucks ledger that changed hands for the second week running. In The News is all Christian Horner: the tell-all memoir "Drive," what he writes about Adrian Newey and Helmut Marko, and the Ferrari job he floated and then denied to Martin Brundle. Next up: Singapore, Sunday October 11, and the first Sprint ever held at Marina Bay. In The Paddock is published within hours of almost every Grand Prix podium.

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