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In a break from the virtually ceaseless fun at this year’s Bahrain Grand Prix I found myself enjoying breakfast with two proper old car enthusiasts, the former Formula One team boss Paul Stewart and Pink Floyd’s drummer, Nick Mason. And they were busy telling me how, the previous afternoon, they’d attempted to drive some kind of snazzy supercar to the track.

“It sort of wouldn’t go properly,” Nick explained. “So I pushed one of the buttons, which engaged what sounded like a kind of whirlpool in the boot.” Paul then explained that the complexity had forced them to give up and use a taxi instead. And so it was that we came up with the idea of a podcast called “Old men being confused by