Ham was running nicely, however – if he hadn’t made that early error, he would have finished behind Bob. Why do I think so? And how the heck would he overtake Kubica on the Monte Carlo Circuit ?!

Hamilton was in a league of his own. He was lapping a second per lap faster for quite a while creating a gap of 20 or 30 seconds in no time.

I received the notfication of John’s post only yesterday evening.

That would have been when I took it out of the spam filter, triggering the notification. You don’t get a notification when a comment identified as spam is posted (and trust me – you wouldn’t want one!)

Patrickl – what notification?

Well you said that your response to comment nr 9 is belated due to the spam filter. Yet I received the notfication of John’s post only yesterday evening. Six days after he posted his comment.

It seems there was something funky going on with the e-mail notifications.

The suspicion has to be that Renault used Piquet to test their contrarion theory -otherwise known as “minority games” where you adopt the least common strategy; Pat Symonds did allude to it in one interview.

But John’s given me some food for thought, no doubt about it. Trouble is, it’s very hard from the outside to discern whether, say, Giancarlo Fisichella’s driven a better season than Heikki Kovalainen. I may come up with new ways of approaching this in the future.

Patrickl – what notification?

Seriously though it does maybe put meat on the suspicion that you raised Kubica artifically high – maybe to prompt debate??