Canadian GP Not the Turning Point in Mercedes’ Dominance of 2014 F1 Season

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Published: June 10, 2014

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It took seven races, but at the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday a driver from a team other than Mercedes finally won.

Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo took the chequered flag for the first victory of his Formula One career. Mercedes' Nico Rosberg was second, while his teammate, Lewis Hamilton, retired with a rear brake failure.

Previously, Mercedes had been unbeatable in 2014, with the only blemish on their perfect season coming when Hamilton retired from the first race in Australia. 

In Montreal before the race, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said, "In 2012 when we had a difficult start, we managed to turn that situation around and get ourselves back into that championship," per the Press Association's Ian Parkes via the Daily Mail.

"The task here is certainly bigger than that," Horner continued, "but nobody is giving up on anything."



Despite the Red Bull boss's optimism, Ricciardo's surprising result at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve does not mark a turning point in Mercedes' dominance this year.

As the Silver Arrows demonstrated in qualifying and for the first half of the race, they are still lapping the field—literally, in many cases.

After the Monaco Grand Prix in May, where Mercedes scored their fifth-straight one-two finish, Sebastian Vettel said of the championship that, "Mathematically we are right in there," according to Gerhard Kuntschik and Jonathan Noble of Autosport.

But let's look at the math.

Even taking into account Ricciardo's victory and Vettel's third-place finish in Canada, Red Bull is still 119 points behind Mercedes in the Constructors' Championship. Even if the Bulls averaged a first- and third-place result at each of the season's 12 remaining races and we gave Mercedes an average of second and fourth, Red Bull would only win the championship by one point.

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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