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Originally Posted by Jeff Scott
Absolutely, they were sandbagging, and lying.
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I'll play a little 'conspiracy theory' game here.
How many ticket sales would F1 lose if Mercedes had announced just before this 2019 season 'We were the best last year, but we're going to be even better this year'?
All that interest in the 2019 driver changes and rule changes would have just lost momentum.
Don't get me wrong - full credit to Mercedes for their incredible work.... it just becomes a lot less exciting when the outcome is so predictable.
2014 - Mercedes won all but 3 races - those 3 were all won by Daniel Ricciardo
2015 - Mercedes won all but 3 races - those 3 were all won by Sebastian Vettel
2016 - Mercedes won all but 2 races - those 2 were won by Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen - one each.
Can't say I'm looking forward to another season of this type of domination .... but I'll keep watching.
