Something weird happened in F1 at Spa last weekend. Hamo didn't win. Chuck Leclerc, 21, from Monaco, did. And he did it in a Fezzer.
Here's the thing: Hamo has won eight of the 13 races this season. He and the other Merc driver Val Bottas lead the drivers' championship, followed by Max Verstappen, Seb Vettel and Chuck fifth. Everyone else is just making up the numbers.
All season Merc have been faster. Until Spa last Sunday. 308km. 44 laps. 83 minutes. Fezzer were faster, in fact Seb set the fastest lap. But at the end of the race Lou was less than a second behind Chuck, which says something about the driving ability of the Brit.
Coming into the Italian GP at Monza, a course that favours fast, Fezzer's home, you'd have to expect the locals to kill it. Which Chuck probably will.
Now if Chuck keeps winning and gets an above award increase in his pay he could afford to shop at Simon Kidston's motor shop. There's no balloons, sausage sizzles or big inflatable floppy men at his offices in the historic 1907 Les Paons building, one of Geneva's Art Nouveau landmarks.
Simon ran some of Europe's biggest auction houses before setting up "a consultancy to aspiring and high-level collectors that has since become synonymous with Private Treaty sales of the world's rarest and most beautiful motor cars".