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F1 mid-season report: Teams

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F1i looks at how each team has performed in the first half of the year and gives them all a mark out of ten as F1 embarks on a mandatory two-week factory shutdown

Mercedes: 9/10

It has been an almost faultless first half of the season for Mercedes. It’s hard to believe the defending constructors’ champions could better the levels of dominance seen last year, but it has scored more points this year than at the same stage in 2014. Ferrari looks to be a genuine threat at certain circuits, but improved reliability has seen Mercedes score an incredible six one-twos from ten races.

The only real black marks on the team’s season so far comes in the form of some poor starts - which proved very costly in Hungary - and a major strategic error in the Monaco Grand Prix which dropped Lewis Hamilton from a comfortable victory down to third place behind Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel.

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.