Yes it especially helps if one has Ferarri technical data, and data on Ferarri setups. He should have lost his points right along with that cheating team, cannot tell me that a driver does not benefit from this spineless underhanded cheating. Nor can one tell me they do not know what's going on in that paddock, he was fully aware of the underhanded tricks used, and he was more than willing to participate in it. His driving skills are menial, any fool can accomplish what he had done in such a fast car, the difference between him and the ferarri drivers is the fact that both Raikonnen and Massa, did not get an easy hand out. They had to work their way up from Sauber which was a mid-pack team.
Look at Sebastian Vettel for example, the most demanded young driver and the only one with two contracts from two different teams, yet where is he placed? in a Torro Rosso...Having proven during Friday practice last year already, that he is blindingly fast in a BMW who last year wasn't nearly as competitive as this year.
The man who lost that seat to Hamilton (Gary Paffett)has a career win percentage of 46% compared to Hamilton's meager 31% in his career. Any one of those drivers in that paddock, could have led the championship with a car that had been reliable and a second faster than anything other than the one it plagiarized data from.