Leaving Monza and going to Singapore the gap between the top two in the drivers’ championship table could scarcely have been closer. But you’d hardly know it. The guy behind had the momentum on the basis of crude results too, creeping up on Lewis Hamilton at the table summit consistently across the preceding weeks. But, again, you’d hardly know it. Most it seemed were determined not to take him seriously; viewed him as some kind of interloper. Only there through fortune. Both in individual races as well as at the aggregate level – in the best car and with a team mate perhaps not making the most of things. He’d won races, plenty of them. But, the conventional...
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