After an exhilarating race in Russia, it doesn't overall appear to be have been a very important weekend. Lewis Hamilton wins, Red Bull struggle and Ferrari come close but aren't quite there. It's the story of the season. Looking deeper into the race however, there is a goldmine of information.
Sergio Perez is extremely under-rated
He may often be found in the shadow of his team-mate, Nico Hulkenberg, but with Hulkenberg retiring, Perez well and truly took his chance and shined with the focus all on him. Despite pitting extremely early, he managed his tyres well to make sure he had good pace all the way till the end and was duly rewarded with a podium.
He may have benefitted from some good fortune after Kimi Raikkonen ruined Valtteri Bottas' chances to take the podium, but it was no less than the Mexican deserved really.
Carlos Sainz has a very bright future
The young Spaniard had been having a terrible weekend until today. Despite a horror crash during practice that ruined his race preparation it put into doubt the chances of him even being able to take part in the race.
Despite all these setbacks he had a truly great race, he looked perfectly set to take good points, until at the very end he suffered a brake failure that caused him to retire. What a future the Toro Rosso youngster has ahead of him.
Simply nothing works for Red Bull
It's a known fact that Red Bull and Toro Rosso have had major issues with reliability and drivability on their cars. Although until today their problems have been majorly to do with their Renault power unit. Today though it was a cocktail of bad luck, mechanical faults but it was sweetened with some Russian joy.
Max Verstappen may have finished the race but struggled to do anything meaningful after an early puncture. As mentioned before Sainz had recovered well before his brakes failed. Daniel Ricciardo was doing well and was within sight of a podium until a suspension problem caused him to retire. There was some joy however as Daniil Kvyat finished well inside the points in his home Grand Prix.
New tracks can be exciting
The contrast of having the brand new Sochi track straight after the historic Suzuka track is a stark one. Many in the paddock believe that these new tracks don't have the same feel and can't produce the exciting racing the historic tracks have.
Today however that myth was totally dispelled. There were exciting battles throughout the grid today, while robbed of an excting inter-Mercedes battle, Formula One made up for it with the a great battle for the final podium spot, some great battles in the points including a great drive from Felipe Massa of Williams.
Lewis Hamilton is all but World Champion
It's been well known for the majority of the season so far that there was only really one driver who was ever going to win the Championship this season. These past two seasons Hamilton has been driving like a man possessed, and no-one has really come close.
Of course his car has ensured that he always had an advantage over everyone else, but his sheer dominance over his team-mate shows just how well he has driven. Breaking Ayrton Senna's and other legend's record on the way he looks a dead cert to secure his 3rd Driver's Championship at the US Grand Prix in Austin next time out.
After Raikkonen was dropped from fifth to eight it ensured Mercedes had a big enough points gap to ensure that no other constructor can catch them and means they won the 2015 Constructor's Championship. Hamilton also only needs two points in his next race to guarantee yet another double Championship season for the Brackley based team.