An empty Silverstone circuit might take some getting used to, but what happened on track looked no different to recent years -- Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes on top in qualifying.
Hamilton appears to have only teammate Valtteri Bottas as a rival for victory on Sunday afternoon.
So how is it we're already writing off any notion of a competitive season? How did this season so quickly become this one-sided?
The real reason behind Mercedes' dominance
The Mercedes W11 and Silverstone were made for each other.