Scores of police cars were parked or circulating on the highway south, as the government hoped to use the Grand Prix as a way of showing that life is back to normal after a democracy movement launched an Arab Spring-inspired uprising last year. The protests were initially crushed, but were not stamped out; demonstrations and clashes are frequent. There were no immediate reports from teams of any trouble overnight
after a petrol bomb exploded near a team van on Wednesday evening. Despite the best efforts of teams and drivers to focus on the race and ignore