Before the RB domination, it was Schumey's Ferrari mascaraing the field, or Williams or Senna/Prost's McLaren total season domination. I'm just saying that it is possible that we are looking back at the sport with rose-tinted glasses on. F1, at least from a generalized view is relatively predictable.
During the 3 of the 4 years RB won...it was still a question of whether RB would screw up enough to lose rather than having a real challenge by Ferrari/McLaren. I distinctly watching Vettel run off in front while everyone chased behind pretty much every race and this forum was like "OMG, another Vettel snooze fest." It is now changing to "OMG, another MB snooze fest" lol...
The only exception is 2010, that was a great year where RB didn't start to pull away until the last half of the season and everyone started off on pretty much equal footing.
In other news, holy shit that was 6 years ago...!
Ongoing discussion with Redliner on why the last 2 seasons of F1 has sucked so much, lets look at the win pct for the winning constructor each year. I can't seem to find two seasons back-to-back where a single constructor won 70%+ of the races except the last 2 years.
1987: 56% (Williams)
1988: 94% (McLaren)
1989: 63% (McLaren)
1990: 38% (McLaren)
1991: 50% (McLaren)
1992: 63% (Williams)
1993: 69% (Williams)
1994: 44% (Williams)
1995: 63% (Benetton)
1996: 81% (Williams)
1997: 47% (Williams)
1998: 56% (McLaren)
1999: 38% (Ferrari)
2000: 59% (Ferrari)
2001: 53% (Ferrari)
2002: 88% (Ferrari)
2003: 50% (Ferrari)
2004: 83% (Ferrari)
2005: 42% (Renault)
2006: 44% (Renault)
2007: 53% (Ferrari)
2008: 44% (Ferrari)
2009: 47% (Brawn)
2010: 42% (RBR)
2011: 58% (RBR)
2012: 37% (RBR)
2013: 68% (RBR)
2014: 84% (Mercedes)
2015: 84% (Mercedes)
numbers don't lie. RBR was nowhere as dominant by stats as we recall. Ferrari was on and off during their years of 'dominance' as well.
We're well on target to make it 3 years in a row of 80+% win rate from a single team, currently half way through the season and at 90%.