As Lewis Hamilton will most certainly cruise to his seventh world championship driver's title this weekend – to complement the constructor's crown earned for Mercedes at Imola two weekends ago – there's no doubt that such devastating dominance is as unprecedented as it has been unstoppable.
From changes in aerodynamics regulations, car width and tyre sizes to a ban on engine modes, nothing thrown by the rulebook or any of its rivals since 2014 has been able to derail the Mercedes steamroller – seemingly with zero prospect of that changing any time soon.