Last weekend was a total disaster for Lewis Hamilton, despite his assertions that he has taken a load of positives from it - yeah right.

But despite this, perhaps it was actually a good thing as far as he is concerned.

It’s very easy to say that in such-and-such a position I would do X, Y and Z however if it’s all hypothetical then I can never know for sure what I would do.  Once that situation presents itself I may not actually carry out my X, Y and Z plan as I had thought I would, instead opting to go for the A, B, C approach.

I like sleep, always have and probably always will.

But since getting our kitten, Daisy, I haven’t been getting as much as I used to due to her insistence that someone gets up to feed and play with her whenever she wakes up - which is usually a good hour or two before I’d ideally be liking to waken.

However, it’s not all bad - in fact being up and about an hour earlier hasn’t affected me as much as I thought it might.  In the past, a lack of sleep has always made me grumpy with a longing all day for an early night so I can catch up straight away but that all seems to have left me now.

I have to admit that Lewis Hamilton really pulled a rabbit out of the hat today in qualifying for the Japanese grand prix at Fuji.

He really was on the edge of qualifying really badly, not even making it through the first section of the session, but thankfully for him (and those of us who want to see a battle royale between him and Alonso) he managed one more lap which was good enough to put him through. In the final session, it looked like Alonso had the measure of the young Englishman as he was always a small margin ahead throughout, however one final amazing lap stuck Hamilton’s McLaren on pole.