Dominant Mercedes brush aside invincibility thoughts

Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas celebrate with their team after a fifth consecutive race victory at the Spanish GP.

The question was batted aside smartly by team boss Toto Wolff after Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix brought a fifth successive one-two, the best ever start to a season, but nobody likes to tempt fate. Monaco’s unforgiving, metal-fenced street circuit can always throw up a nasty surprise for the careless or the unwary, and yet there is every chance the ‘invincibles’ question will continue to be asked beyond that Mediterranean showcase.

“I think it’s very much a Mercedes championship, you can see that after five races – three points off a maximum score.” Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto was also asked whether he felt Mercedes could go the distance unbeaten and shook his head as drivers Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc both said no.

The same fears were raised when Ferrari, with Michael Schumacher in the early years of the century, and Red Bull with Vettel from 2010-13, were rampant.

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