How Mercedes Are Destroying and Reviving the 2014 F1 Season

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Published: May 13, 2014

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After Mercedes’ fifth consecutive victory of the season in the Spanish Grand Prix, the title fight has already become a two-horse race between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, the new championship leader.

The Silver Arrows’ dominance over the rest of the field has almost made a mockery of the 2014 regulation changes, which were introduced with the secondary aim of ending the winning run of another irresistible combination.

Formula One’s long-awaited season of change seems increasingly like a continuation of the same old story, with one team setting pole position, galloping into the distance and winning the race.



The fall (well, stumble) of Red Bull Racing and Sebastian Vettel has coincided with the astronomical rise of Mercedes, who rather depressingly already appear to have both the drivers’ and constructors’ championships in the bag barely two months into a 19-race season.

In an ideal world, we would like to see several different drivers from a range of teams in the hunt for the title, as we saw most recently in 2010.

The sheer depth of quality in F1 has been evident this year, with five of the sport’s 11 teams securing at least one podium finish in the opening four races—which makes it all the more frustrating that those pesky Mercedes cars won’t give anyone else a go at this winning business.

Despite trying their best to take the fun out of Formula One in terms of competition, it would be wrong to suggest that Mercedes are destroying the 2014 season due to the compelling inter-team battle between Rosberg and Hamilton.



Because the title battle is exclusive to the German manufacturer’s drivers, the early rounds of the season have carried much more intensity than usual. In previous years, the cat and mouse thrillers in Bahrain and Spain would still have been exciting, but taken in isolation as both drive...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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