Even the most hardened Lewis critic would be hard-pressed to explain away his superiority at Silverstone in the rain. Like Stewart at the Nurburgring in 1968, Senna in Portugal '85, and Schumacher in Barcelona '96, it seemed to be wet for all the other drivers and dry for him.

There were laps in the second half of the race where he was three or four seconds faster than his rivals for the championship on the same tyre. It was mesmerising. It was set up by the start, where Lewis jumped from fourth to second, as Kimi Raikkonen got boxed in behind Mark Webber’s Red Bull.

Lewis and Kimi got past Heikki Kovalainen soon enough and we had a race until the first round of pit stops, when Ferrari made their big mistake, and after that Lewis controlled it.