There were other guys testing that day. Apparently, Humphrey Corbett, a Prost race engineer, had been in the garage and heard a car come round. ‘It was using all the road and all the revs,’ he said later. ‘I went to the pit wall and asked when Jenson was due round, and somebody said, “That was him going round then.” ‘And I thought, That couldn’t have been, because the guy was on it. Using the kerbs. People on their first run usually take it easy, but he was inch-perfect on his exit of the corner and his speed on the straight was within 10kmh of Jean’s the previous day. He really was on it.’
