Conventional wisdom may suggest that your key tool of influence is the power or formal authority that comes with your title.

With its name cast and familiar trappings, Inside Man may come on like a conventional heist movie - even the title sounds as generic as a brown paper bag - but Lee's incapable of playing by the rules.

The latter option may not seem Schumacher's conventional style, but if he does win an eighth drivers' title this year, then he may well relish a fresh challenge.