Around 20 years ago, Adrian Newey went to the esteemed driver coach Rob Wilson with something playing on his mind.

Newey, then of McLaren, could not help but notice at the United States Grand Prix – in those days held at Indianapolis – that Kimi Raikkonen was constantly varying his approach to Turn 1.

There is a widespread perception that a racing driver must approach a lap much like a bowler might approach his task in cricket.

All line and length. Accuracy. Consistency. Finding a braking point, identifying a reference point by the side of the track, and sticking to it.

Driving the same corner the same way 70 times and hoping to do it in a shorter time than anyone else.

Yet Wilson, who had spent time coaching Raikkonen in his little Vauxhall Astra, showed Adrian a different way.

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