The consequences of Mercedes' total supremacy at the start of F1's new era for the championship leaders' increasingly distant rivals, and Formula 1 as a whole, have been put under the spotlight by the British press in the wake of the Spanish GP.Having made the joint-best winning start to a season since McLaren's crushing 1988 campaign, when the Woking outfit failed to win just one of that campaign's 16 races, Mercedes are already 113 points clear in the Constructors' Championship and their two drivers a long way ahead in the drivers' standings. In contrast, while Red Bull have seen their winning run come to a juddering halt, the Spanish GP brought up uncomfortable milestones for F1's two...
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