
Jenson Button is currently holed up on a bus in a freezing car park at the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent. It’s not somewhere you’d want to be, having just won your first-ever World Drivers’ Championship.

Nice to see Massa up and about, but his black eye and Hammer horror scar serve as a salutary reminder of the fallibility of even the latest technology, and of us mere mortals that rely upon it.