And the Gulf air is hot, damned hot. Hot and dry, which doesn't leave me room for a joke.
Lewis has got pole, Sebastian is starting from second, but he doesn't have the fifth column of Roscoe to give him a break, so maybe Lewis will have the edge into the first corner.
Nico couldn't get into the rhythm, apparently - maybe he should get Grace Jones as a coach.
Felipe and Valtery fill out the 3rd row for Williams - who have gone from "We not crap anymore" last season to "Why aren't we winning" - always a healthy sign in a team. Sir Frank was 73 on Thursday, but I can't wrangle that into an obscure reference, so I'll just wish him a Happy Birthday.
After the Williams, the rest of the grid is a fair mash-up of the usual suspects. One thing of note - Fernando managed to wrestle a McLaren in Q2 - Jenson's form in the only practice he got was relatively close too - if they don't explode/fizzle out maybe they can score their first points.
Now, please form an orderly line to explain to me what I've missed, how you could have done the thread opener better, and why my analysis sucks.
I don't care - I'm just hoping for a race to match the fun of last year, because it was awesome.
And this year we have massive sparks.