In any case, there is a growing perception that he lacks grip.
Insiders increasingly concede that Downing Street now lacks "grip" on the rest of government.
In 2012, a collaboration with the sculptor Antony Gormley left audiences underwhelmed, and more recent pieces have lacked grip and inventiveness.
He made one attempt to get alongside Rosberg as they sped down to the first corner, but when Sebastian Vettel moved up alongside him on the left, Hamilton's car lacked grip and he was powerless to prevent the Red Bull sweeping across to push him down to third.
But the car appeared to lack grip throughout Friday practice, with Alonso visibly sliding the rear of the car on the exit of a number of corners.
The Ferrari has appeared to lack grip all weekend, with Alonso and team-mate Felipe Massa - who was a second slower in 10th place - fighting with a loose rear end on the demanding Marina Bay street circuit.
"The Long Christmas Ride Home" lacks gripping momentum, with long descriptive speeches that let action lag in the last half of the play.
It is very special to get into a sword that is merely lacking its grip," Jostein Aksdal, an archaeologist with Hordaland County who examined the find, told the local.no.no
We were lacking overall grip.
But save for the harshest maneuvers, when we encountered a series of S-turns at 60 mph in the rain and had to get on the brakes a little quicker than we'd anticipated, we never found the Freelander lacking in grip from its tires or in good feedback from its suspension.
