Spare a thought for Sebastian Vettel this weekend as he and Ferrari hope to push Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes out of the spotlight and off the top of the podium at their home German Grand Prix.
Four-time champion Vettel will be seeking to end a miserable "nightmare" year since he crashed out of the lead at last year's German contest and, in the process, handed a remarkable victory and the impetus in the title race to his British rival.
Vettel has won only once, in Belgium last year, since that embarrassment.
Five-time world champion and current series leader Hamilton has not looked back since and leads this year's championship by 39 points, ahead of Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas.
Vettel, who was born at nearby Heppenheim, has endured a run of mistakes and disappointments that have thrown his future into doubt and left him languishing in pursuit.
On top of that, Hamilton is seeking his fifth German triumph this weekend as Mercedes celebrate their 200th start as a constructor and his fourth at Hockenheim, where the luckless Vettel has never won.
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His sole German victory came at the Nurburgring in 2013, a year after Ferrari's last triumph on German soil when Fernando Alonso won at Hockenheim in 2012 -- statistics that Vettel, a keen student of his sport, will not enjoy being reminded of as he bids to claim Ferrari's first win since last year's United States Grand Prix.
"I know how it is and I know that we have to make up for last year," conceded Vettel.
"I am looking forward to racing at Hockenheim -- the atmosphere is phenomenal there always and the crowd is great too. I hope we can do something good for them."
-- 'Mercedes stay humble' --
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"We must stay humble and work hard to achieve the best possible result."
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