Red Bull have never had it so good in Formula 1. They are leading both the drivers' and the constructors' championships for the first time.
Certainly Mark Webber, the championship leader, has never enjoyed such success in motorsport's pinnacle category.
And if you've read my colleague Andrew Benson's blog this week, you'll appreciate the reasons why the 33-year-old is in the form of his F1 life, winning from pole in both Spain and Monaco, two markedly different circuits with hugely contrasting demands.
But the manner of those victories - particularly in Monaco, where Webber never looked like being threatened by his pursuers - has set plenty of curious minds racing about the most recent performances of his Red Bull team-mate, Sebastian Vettel.
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Vitaly Petrov is making an increasingly impressive entry into Formula 1 with Renault this year but Russia's first grand prix driver sounded startlingly out of step with his surroundings this weekend.
"Driving at Monaco means nothing to me", said F1's top rookie after 2010's opening races.
What about the history and the tradition of one of the most famous races in the world?
"I don't feel anything about the history," he said.
I have to admit his answers left me lost for words. I have never come across anybody - driver, engineer, mechanic, journalist or fan - who was so dismissive and so detached about racing on the most renowned street circuit on the globe.
The Monaco Grand Prix was the first race which grabbed my attention and switched me on to F1. It was the one track, above all others, that I wanted to visit.
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"Judge me after four races" was how Michael Schumacher courted the world on his Formula 1 comeback.
The verdict after his latest 10th-place finish in China left him 40 points shy of team-mate Nico Rosberg was inevitably and hugely critical.
Even the seven-time champion admitted immense disappointment at his inability to make progress in the type of changeable, wet conditions where he had once reigned supreme.
Little wonder, then, that one of the jokes doing the rounds in Shanghai was that the Mercedes upgrade for this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix should be Nick Heidfeld - the promotion of the reserve driver to a race seat.
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Jonathan Legard commentated on Formula 1 for the BBC in 2009 and 2010. He wrote regular blogs during that period, giving a behind-the-scenes insight into the grand prix weekends. Jonathan, previously 5 live's football correspondent and before that the radio station's F1 correspondent, is no longer part of the BBC's F1 team.
