After six grands prix victories this season, watching Jenson Button cross the finish line has become a familiar sight in Formula 1 but on Sunday the Brawn driver was a little bit harder to spot.
With a final burst of adrenalin, the world championship leader flashed past the finish in a blur of grey shorts with his hair slicked flat to his face.
Was that him?
The watching Mole couldn't be sure because Button was just another face among 6,000 amateur athletes testing their mettle in the London Triathlon.
Luckily the flash of the snappers' cameras and the extra-special cheers gave it away.
It was Button, and what's more he had raced through the Olympic distance - a 1500m swim, 40km bike ride and a 10km run - in a personal best time of two hours and seven minutes.
"I think I'm going to collapse now," joked a surprisingly buoyant Button afterwards.
"I didn't push too hard in the swim as I have done before and I got it done in 24 minutes so I'm very happy.
"I was massively quicker than I expected on the bike, one hour and three minutes, and then I took the first lap of the run relatively easy before giving it the beans on the second lap to finish in 35.02 mins.
"I feel really good. There was only one thing my trainer failed on. He told me not to fill my water bottle up to the top because I wouldn't drink it all but I got halfway round and it was completely gone, so I struggled a bit there."…