Let's talk Mercedes

[denkimi]

Although it's pretty easy to find fault in Bottas, you can't really blame him if the CC slips away from Mercedes. As the #2 driver, all you can expect/ask from him is to beat the #2 of the opposition. Bottas is ahead of Perez by 13 points right now, so he's doing his job. Hamilton as the #1 needs to beat the opposition's #1. Right now he's trailing by 8 pts. So if Mercedes loses the CC, it might be more fitting to blame it on Hamilton.
Of course this could all change in the next two races, but as it stands, it's Hamilton that needs to do more.

just because perez is also doing a terrible job this year, doesn't mean bottas isn't doing a good one.

[Nitrodaze]

It is interesting to note that the difference in the constructor's points is the difference of the points of Bottas to Perez. Bottas is 28 points ahead of Perez. The Nos 2 garage at Redbull has always been the weak point of Redbull. Somehow the team on that side of the garage has not been able to deliver a consistently good car.

How many of us really thought Mercedes have the chance of winning the title at any point of the first half of the season? I had serious doubts, to be honest. But look, here they are at the last race of the season with as good a chance as any to win the constructors and driver's championship.

We like to think of the indestructible Mercedes of old. But this season has been such a tribulation for them. And they have shown star quality by bouncing back.

[Nitrodaze]

Much of the talk about the Abu Dhabi race has been about Hamilton becoming an eight-time world champion. On the quiet, Petronas-Mercedes F1 is about to be the first team in F1 history to win eight constructor's world championship titles consecutively. An unprecedented and incredible achievement when or if it happens this Sunday.

If it happens, they would have won twice as many constructor's titles as their fiesty rival Redbull.