On the one hand, we got exactly the winner we expected in Barcelona but, on the other, the track changes at the end of the lap made for more action and the revised Mercedes W14 suddenly came alive last Sunday.
As Alex Kalinauckas explains in his weekly column and our in-depth report, there were several reasons why Mercedes jumped Aston Martin and Ferrari in Spain. Some of them were situation-specific, but there is also now a real hope that the multiple championship-winning team is finally on the right path.
