Seems to me that this was another relatively lacklustre season for Mercedes, who IMO must have been of the opinion that buying the newly-WCC'd Brawn and bringing back seven-time WCC Schumacher would create the perfect storm a la Ferrari days, Schumacher gently mentoring Rosberg while leading from the front. Of course none of this has happened, Merc are at best the fourth quickest team and Rosberg seems to be doing just fine in competition with Schumacher. Makes me wonder if Merc thought that the traditional several years to fully build the team would be required or whether they thought they'd already bought their way to the top, only to find that dream very clearly shattered. Thoughts?