W09 joins the Silver Arrows club of world champions

It will be a few more weeks before Mercedes' championship-winning W09 retires from active duty.

In the interim, title festivities at Brackley this week offered an opportunity for a get-together between the celebrated machine and its fellow world championship-winning Silver Arrows siblings born since 2014.

Mercedes' engineering excellence in the hybrid era of F1 has been outstanding, and unrivaled, in terms of both performance and reliability.

Hence the 73 wins and five double Drivers and Constructors' titles...