For the first time in more than five years, the Mercedes team on Monday flew home without a finisher, and pointless, following Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg's opening-lap collision in Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix. The team also had to cope with an unwanted collective headache, one that felt familiar after the acrimony of 2014, and had to face a new challenge as Formula One hailed a new youngest race winner in Dutch teenager Max Verstappen. The crash ended championship leader Rosberg's winning streak -– four races this year and seven in all -– and delivered Mercedes' first non-finish since the 2011 Australian Grand Prix, but, worse than that, it reopened a divide between the drivers....
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