It's a feat of utter brilliance, and yet utter domination, and it has not really allowed any other team a look-in.
Just when we thought Michael would ease up a bit, having sealed the title as long ago as Hungary, up pops Rubens Barrichello, who has been there or thereabouts all season and he starts doing the winning.
If he had won in Japan it would have been three on the trot for him.
It's just part of a phenomenon that we won't see again. The success of Ferrari is extraordinary.
If you look back it was actually here in Suzuka in the year 2000 where they broke through and won their first World Championship race for 21 years.
Since that time they have absolutely dominated the constructors' championship and the drivers' championship.
No-one has really had a look-in - except last year, of course, when we had a great battle throughout the season between Kimi Raikkonen and Michael Schumacher, which ended here with just two points between them.
There were eight different winners last year, unlike this year, when we've had far fewer and we've suffered from far more dominance from the red team of Ferrari.
It's good for the image of the sport in terms of excellence, it's good in terms of record-breaking, but it's not good for the audience, in terms of them wanting to come back for more, in terms of them wanting to get to the edge of their seats.
You have to look, like we did in the Japanese Grand Prix, at these battles for tenth position and ninth position, experienced drivers like Montoya and Barrichello and Villeneuve at one point three abreast down the straight.
There have been some very exciting races this year, and included in that is Monte Carlo. But that is what Formula One is working towards, it's trying to lower its costs, it's trying to detune the cars technically, so they are simpler and more cost-effective, it's trying to close up the competition.
It's also trying to allow in more private teams, especially as we have one major manufacturer in the form of Ford, who own Jaguar, pulling out this year.
I think in terms of the technical regulations, and getting the costs down, the Formula One authorities intend to make the sport more competitive in the future.
That's not by detuning Ferrari, or trying to knock them off their perch by hobbling them technically, what they're trying to do is help people close the gap ecomomically and encourage more team growth within the sport.
I would personally like to see then more contact with the fans, more entertainment and better value, certainly through ticket prices at the circuit, and that won't happen until Bernie Ecclestone drops some of the costs that he's charging to the grand prix circuits around the world.
He sets the costs, and they can only try and get their return from the ticket sales and nothing else. It's very difficult when you're paying a lot of money up front to bring the circus to town.
The bigger teams with the bigger resources can always do more research and can make the best car to conform to the latest set of regulations. That always hinders the smaller teams.
But ultimately, if you do simplify things, and you do away with some of the electronic enhancements, like traction control, and launch control off the line, and electronic diffs and so on by having a standard ECU box, one electronic box for all, that is one of the aims.
That will help to close the gap. But at the same time, you are making it more affordable so other teams can participate, new teams can come into the sport, and they can close the gap and get a little bit closer to the Ferraris and the Williamses and the McLarens.
Tony Jardine was talking to Andy Schooler.
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