Courtesy of another stumble from Ferrari, Mercedes went from second-best in the morning to world champions in the afternoon at Suzuka on Sunday. As far as the ways Mercedes could've won the 2019 constructor's title, well… they don't get much more fitting than that. In a season that has continually seen Ferrari raise expectations only to disappoint while the Silver Arrows took the spoils, Sunday provided the perfect microcosm of the 2019 F1 season. At just past 11 o'clock local time, it looked for all the world like the Scuderia were the team to beat. They'd locked-out the front row in qualifying, the SF90 being clearly the best car on the grid. Three hours later, the time came to get the...
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