Has anyone crunched the numbers on the time difference between pole and the best competing team, ie 1st and 3rd if the front row is only one team. 1st and 2nd if not.
The last years of the V8 was really close and since that is in fresh memory maybe we tend to think of Mercs superior speed as something unheard of. I've actually followed F1 since the early 90's and think that 0.5s or more was common back then. But i'm not sure if I can trust my memory