Now that the storm over the bore fest that was the Bahrain GP is settling down, people are turning their attention to different things. Red Bull started it all, rubbing their quick pace in Mercedes GP’s face, saying they know why they didn’t get an engine from Germany. Mercedes then played the blame game, putting it all across the pit lane in McLaren’s lap.

Never mind that though, Red Bull should be happy because Renault have been given permission by the FIA to tweak their engine around. This will be a second tweak given to the engine in the last couple of years, just that this time reportedly, they won’t be allowed to make any changes to the performance of the power unit. The only changes that have been allowed pertain to cost and reliability of the units.

Two interesting things to be noted here. Firstly, that the changes to be made will affect the reliability of the engines in a better way is good news for Red Bull. Sebastien Vettel had more or less won the first race of the season till that problem in his Renault engine handed out a gift to Ferrari and Fernando Alonso. A more reliable unit next time might mean that Vettel crosses the finish line first, or that Alonso will have to employ actual overtaking maneuvers and not drive past a hobbling car.

And two, how scared are teams of the pace of Red Bull. Quite clearly they were the fastest car at the end of last season and the RB6 only seems a step up on that. If they did have a Mercedes engine unit in the rear, Red Bull would be nearly impossible to catch which might reduce this season’s probable closeness amongst four teams to two, or even just to two drivers, Vettel and Mark Webber. Thank heavens for the denial then by McLaren or Mercedes, whoever it really was.