There is a terrible trend in F1 amongst the fan, at least, to disregard so much. Merc may have had a better engine but that same engine was in other cars too,

There is a terrible trend in F1 amongst the fan, at least, to disregard so much. Merc may have had a better engine but that same engine was in other cars too, their entire package was phenomenal. Same with their driver, if Hamilton isn't literally the very best then the differences are very very very tiny. It takes everything coming together to win championships, they had it, they had the driver, they had the engine, they had the chassis, they had the pit crew, the engineers, the strategies. AN is amazing, he's designed a lot of winning cars and a lot of nearly won cars too. The genius of Christian Horner seems to be that he deflects any and all responsibility from the most potentially fragile elements of his team. AN is one of those, short of him saying a particular design or concept was crap, no one on the team will ever say anything of the sort.