For the past 18 months or so Formula 1 has obsessed over Ferrari's revival and whether it is going to be the team to finally break Mercedes' hegemony in the V6 hybrid turbo era.
But the more time passes the more it actually looks as though Red Bull may be the team that takes the fight properly to Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in F1.
Of course Red Bull won in Spain, and then took pole in Monaco. Without a pitstop blunder on Daniel Ricciardo's car, Red Bull would have won that race too.
Ben Anderson is GP Racing's Editor, Autosport track tester and tame racing driver. He holds an undergraduate degree in journalism studies from the University of Sheffield and joined the title in March 2008, after eight months working in local newspaper journalism for award-winning weekly the Surrey Mirror. He worked on Autosport's national desk before moving up to F1 in '14. He has raced karts and cars since the age of 11 and has tested or raced more than 100 different examples during his career so far.
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