The Hilton
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What is it with the rewriting history in this thread?Mercedes have taken pole and won almost every race for 7 years straight, just because it's only one year until the big rule change doesn't make these changes unnecessary, it only makes them late imo.
As for robbing us of a title fight, there's no way FIA can know how much the teams will gain/lose with rules X or Y, it's only a coincidence that RB made such a big leap the same year FIA introduced rules to slow down the Merc. You could argue however that FIA has robbed us of a proper title fight for the past 4-5 years since it took them forever to do anything about Merc's dominance, but I'm guessing that one is a bit easier to look past if you want Lewis to win.
Mercedes have had the best car for the previous 2 seasons, but before that they were behind Ferrari and won thanks to Hamilton handling pressure better than Vettel.
The rule change to neuter the Merc is a strange one, as after the 2 previous seasons it seemed necessary, but in hindsight it does look like a poor decision, as RB have improved their car much more than expected, so rather than seeing 2 heavyweight cars fight it out, it's a formality but just with RB instead of Merc.