Sonny's agency runs ahead of his control through the first two acts because he's always making choices — choosing to come back, choosing the rope-a-dope, choosing to sacrifice position for Joshua — even when the car and the team can't deliver results. The gap inverts dramatically at the crisis: when Rubén fires him (beat 24), both lines crash, but agency hits a true zero at beat 26 when Banning's betrayal reveals that Sonny's choices were built on someone else's lie. The recovery is agency-led: arriving uninvited at Abu Dhabi (beat 29) is pure will before any control returns. The final surge sees both lines rocket upward together, but agency leads by a step at every point — Sonny wins because he chose to show up, and luck followed.