2019 Brazilian Grand Prix

“This out-lap is crucial,” Lewis Hamilton was informed.

“You don’t need to tell me,” he replied with the tone of someone who knew he was up against it, trying to pull off a result against a faster car.

The faster car – decisively so all weekend – was the Red Bull-Honda of Max Verstappen. In this most typically and wonderfully random of Interlagos races, this was the brief moment when Hamilton may have been able to steal it.