Nine years on, here I am, typing 'Fifth Column' at the top of the screen once again, and thinking back to the last time, in December 2007.
This was the year when three drivers went to the final race to settle the world championship, and the least favoured of the trio, Kimi Raikkonen, nicked the title by a point from Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso.
While Raikkonen remains Ferrari's most recent world champion, this was one of those years - as with Emerson Fittipaldi and Ronnie Peterson at Lotus in 1973, or Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet at Williams in '86 - when a team, in this case McLaren-Mercedes, lost the title because all season long its drivers took points from each other.