Reigning Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hami🌃lton believes his Mercedes team cannot be blamed for its current domination of the sport.

M�🍌�ercedes has made its best-ever start to an F1 season after taking five consecutive one-two finishes at the start of the 2019 season as it bids to seal a sixth straight world championship double, a feat which would see it surpass Ferrari’s previous record.

The Germ🍨an manufacturer already holds a 96-point lead over Ferrari in the constructors’ championship, while Hamilton is 46 points clear of the nearest non-Mercedes driver, Max Verstappen, who sits third for Red Bull.

"Staying focused is pretty eꦆasy but it is not as much fun as when you are competing against another team - that is was F1 is about,” Hamilton said.

“When you arrive 🦄and you are competing against other teams who are bringing their A game and you have another two drivers and that puts a spanner in the mix.

“When that is not there it is definitely a lot less exciting from a competition point of view, racing within a team...it is not how F1 should be, but it is what it is right now and it🐷 has been like that in the past. But it is not our fault these guys are good at their jobs."

Asked if he fee💜ls Mercedes can win all 21 races in 2019, Hamilton replied: “Who knows? We definitely did not expect to come into the season winning the first five races, which is incredibly encouraging for everyone.

"Everyone is still pus👍hing incredibly hard, which is still so great to see. It really is a phenomenal group of people. In th♎e engineers' room, nobody is overconfident.

“We were just discussing improvem🗹ents we could ma🔜ke and talking about how we could improve the car. They don't mind constructive criticism. They don't take it personally.

“I think this is the strongest 💫team there is and has ever bee⛄n and it would be hard to break that."

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff concurred with his driver, adding: “We’re really trying to perform as well as we can. We pushed the benchmark and we push the needle and we try to be better as a group every 💛single day and every single year.

“This team coming together with the struggles that we had i🌼n the winter is just 𒁏a super satisfaction for the team and the group and this is what my personal feeling is.

“T💙hen on the other side if I take myself out from my Mercedes standpoint and all of the group, of course as a fan you want variability and unpredictability,” he continued.

“We all enjoyed Liverpool coming back as strong as they did and Spurs making it against all odds. I💎 had the laptop on my knees watching the game when we saw Liverpool beating Barcelona.

“As a fan and as a spectator, I can relate to the sport needing to have a certain variability. But where we are, it ▨can't be an objective for us.

“I also feel that it's bad karma if we were to really think that we are walking on water - then next weekend you're g༺oing to get one in the face for sure.”