Quote Originally Posted by steveaki13 View Post
1998, 2009 & 2014 have all see massive rule changes and hence the change in order I guess.

1999 It stayed very similar

2010 - Red Bull stayed up there after the 2009 rule change.

So 2015 could well see a similar order and Mercedes will probably be at the front again
I have noticed that even if order remains "relatively similar" there are still some small changes. For example in 1999 Jordan and Frentzen, despite being slower than McLaren-Ferrari again, went on to have a remote shot at the championship. That's a pretty big shock and vastly different to 1998! And Stewart was very good in 1999 as well.

If I am trying to recall two truly very similar years, 1994-1995 come to mind. It was almost a carbon copy. Benetton-Williams at the front, then Ferrari, then McLaren with unreliable car/engines, then Jordan-Ligier-Sauber, then others. The difference was that in 1995 #2 drivers of Williams and Benetton stayed the same all year, so finished 3rd and 4th WDC. While in 1994 they were changed all the time, so Berger in the Ferrari was comfortably third.

But other than that I am struggling to remember two truly almost identical successive years. So what about 2015? At least something has got to change, even if not regarding Mercedes, then somewhere behind them.