The return of pre-qualifying?
That Prodrive was confirmed as Formula One's newest team is no surprise.
Regular readers of this column will remember a rather in-depth analysis published in these pages at the time that rumours first broke that, after two attempts at running F1 teams for others, David Richards intended taking Prodrive into the sport for its own account.
The analysis concluded that, of all possible candidates Prodrive was technically the most advanced and, of the potential team bosses, Richards was the best-connected and most politically-astute.