Michael Schumacher has long made a habit of taking victories that defied all plausibility and left his rivals slack-jawed as they tried to understand how they lost the race despite all the odds apparently being in their favour.
It may be that the 2006 Chinese Grand Prix will turn out to be the last of Schumacher's 'impossible' wins. It was certainly among the most important of his career.
Had this race followed its 'logical' script, Schumacher would have left Shanghai at least six points behind Fernando Alonso and with a vastly reduced chance of ending his career with an eighth championship.