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This was the second year in a row that Mercedes motor racing team played the leading role with a cluster of victories that left no room for the rest of the grid. Sixteen victories in nineteen races is kind of insulting in the queen category of motoring, especially if we take into account that the supremacy held by Red Bull back in 2013 helped it amass thirteen checkered flags. The brand with a star, far beyond matching the same outcomes it had chalked up in 2014, went one better in terms of series wins and podiums.

No team has built such as an empire. A dozen wins in races, fifteen in qualifying stages and thirty-two podium positions are intimidating figures. Ferrari was the last team to put such powerful numbers on the board in 2004 when it won fifteen out of the eighteen GP racesheld. Precisely,the Scuderylaunched a threat wink at the German bullets when Sebastian Vettel took three wins away from that racing team. However, when everybody thought that Maranello’s people were getting any closer in Singapore, Lewis and Nico bumped it off with four wins, an upshot that leaves little hope room for a more competitive 2016 championship.