Few people would have had Max Verstappen, George Russell and Carlos Sainz on their bingo card for the podium positions in Azerbaijan.
The strong winds blowing off the Caspian Sea had threatened to unsettle all the F1 cars during the weekend. But it was the winds of fortune that blew in on qualifying and race day to utterly disrupt McLaren. The team, so sure-footed throughout this dominant season, needed only to outscore Ferrari by nine points to clinch the constructors' championship, with a record seven races to go.
