Nico Rosberg did what was needed and finished in second place to take his first Formula One World Championship. Lewis Hamilton led the race from start to finish, and back everybody up in the hope of something unexpected, but as that failed to happen, Vettel was third behind the Mercedes, even though at less than half a second.
No, but 2 completely new drivers aboard will hurt them profoundly, especially when those are mediocre drivers.
Mediocre drivers in a top-team doesn't work. The stress, the demand, it's too much for mediocre drivers, especially
mediocre rookies. Imagine them having no option but to put Wehrlein and Ocon in there. Rookie mistakes, no point
of reference, and so on.
Additionally, we're not talking about the 2016 season, but the 2017 revised rules season. Remember 2009 change after 2008?
Brawn came out on top, aswell as RedBull. Ferrari and Merc were far from it.
2014 after 2013? Mercedes completely owns the entire field. Mclaren is at the far back. Ferrari making a mess of things,
Williams jumping to the front.
Now we're getting a 2017 change after 2016. It will have an impact.
"Explain the ending to F1 in football terms"
"Hamilton was beating Verstappen 7-0, then the ref decided F%$& rules, next goal wins
while also sending off 4 Hamilton players to make it more interesting"
Even if Lewis would go out of Mercedes, do you really think they would have to sign in two mediocre rookie drivers?
Contracts can be broken, and there would be a long list of drivers proposing theirselves for Mercedes. Probably with Alonso at the top of that list, and Vettel too probably after understanding what´s driving a mediocre car I´m sure he wouldn´t let pass that opportunity to drive best car on the grid again
I meant to indicate that that's not what i said, pulling 'Mercedes only strenght is Hamilton' from those comments is rather pulling it out completely out of context and really,
never what it said.
Anyway, knowing Alonso is not going there now, to me , any announcement can only disappoint.
Then again, i'm really hoping Mclaren will have a beast next year.
"Explain the ending to F1 in football terms"
"Hamilton was beating Verstappen 7-0, then the ref decided F%$& rules, next goal wins
while also sending off 4 Hamilton players to make it more interesting"