Not only was it Berger's first encounter with Wrynose and Hardknott, but it was also the first and last time he overtook someone on the stretch of road.
The party's internal polling showed crossover – the point at which the Conservatives overtook Labour – occurred in the wake of the party conferences in October, but then Labour clawed itself back into the lead in the first few weeks of the short campaign, possibly by offering reassurance on the deficit and immigration.
The Channel 4 show, aimed at a younger demographic than rival soaps, also overtook ITV's Coronation Street, which remained steady at three violent scenes per hour, and ITV stablemate Emmerdale, up from 2.5 to 4 violent scenes per hour over the same period.
Sorrell argues it is easier to build up overseas revenues that way, but the paper has been in print overseas for many years – its foreign readership overtook its UK readership in print in 1998.
After negotiating his way up and down the steep ascents and descents and round the hairpin bends to the valley, he had already written it off as a place where he might invest in a pub business: "I did Wrynose, I was following a snail and I overtook him and I came down the [Hardknott] pass and thought forget it, I might as well go home, nobody's ever going to come here.
Any positive feelings towards the gang evaporated a few seconds later when they accelerated past, with the first rider giving my arse a good thwack as he overtook.
It overtook the Mirror in 1978 and seemed set fair for continuing sales dominance until the Daily Star was launched and Lamb, after being knighted, fell into the trap of making his paper overly serious, with too many splashes devoted to politics and economics.
But in 2012, personal affairs overtook his career when it emerged that he had been involved in a long-running affair with Paula Broadwell, a married academic and army reserve officer who had been writing a biography of Petraeus, titled All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.
As we overtook rickety old cars on blind corners while Roland played a Kazantip hard house mix CD, we would pass people selling watermelons, red onions and car seats covered in plastic at the side of the road.
Elsewhere, Radio 4's digital sister station Radio 4 Extra, home to classic comedy and drama including Dad's Army and Hancock's Half Hour, overtook Radio 3 and leapfrogged Radio 6 Music to become the most popular digital-only station.
Lenovo of China, which last year overtook HP as the world's leading PC seller, recently bought a low-end server business from IBM.
