It's strange to think that the 2020 Belgian Grand Prix produced only the second Mercedes 1-2 of the Formula 1 season so far, given just how fast its W11 challenger is and how dominant the team's position has looked at times.
In previous events, Mercedes has lost the maximum result to poor starts (for Valtteri Bottas), to penalties (for Lewis Hamilton) and of course to the famous rubber-strewn ending to the first race at Silverstone.
This time, though, nothing got in its way, and in the intra-team battle of the Black Arrows it was Hamilton who again emerged triumphant. But there was something familiar about this weekend, which perhaps explained why Hamilton was so noticeably downbeat to have lost pole to Bottas at the 70th Anniversary GP in early August.