All For Mercedes To Lose

Six races to go before the end of the 2014 Formula 1 season, and it’s all Mercedes at the top of the Constructors’ Championship.

Following the utterly dominant season that Sebastian Vettel and his Red Bull team had last season, one would figure that they would carry their dominance into the sequential season. If you told me that Mercedes GP would be 182 points clear of Red bull six races from the end of the season, I wouldn’t argue. However, if you debated that Sebastian Vettel would be lying sixth and Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton occupying first and second respectively. Well, I would outright protest that.

Mercedes have been simply resolute in 2014. The mellow dramatic relationship between Nico and Lewis seems to bring out the best in each other on the track. Mercedes won’t be complaining too much though.

The latest news to come out of the International Motoring Federation (FIA) is the ‘performance-related’ radio communications. Basically this law states that drivers no longer have unrestricted radio contact with their teams. A rather peculiar time to enforce a law considering how close the title championship is at the top.

Many drivers and industry members have raised concern over the new legislation around safety issues etc. but Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg on Thursday welcomed the “sound of radio silence” for the final few races of their dramatic duel for the drivers’ world championship. Fernando Alonso compared the ruling to the practices in other sports:

“I think this rule has no benefit. It is like basketball or football, you don’t allow the coach to say anything,”

The purpose of the new law is to recover the “pureness” and rawness of Formula 1 racing. Which sounds like a promising prospect; the sport’s ruling body clarified the ban on technical information, saying that any “information concerning damage to the car” is allowed.

Singapore qualifying is on Saturday, while race-day is on Sunday.