Toto Wolff believes that any artificial attempt to deprive Red Bull Racing of an advantage is against the basic principles of Formula 1 – this cannot be done, and the task of the rest of the teams is to challenge the championship leaders to catch up.
We have already quoted the views of the Ferrari and McLaren leaders, and Wolff fully agrees.
“As a team leader, I don’t want to do what others have done in the past and say, ‘We have to change the rules, because we can’t go on with such a lead over one team.'” But if the team dominates like Red Bull with Max Verstappen, then that is well deserved. This is the principle of meritocracy.
If they meet all the rules – technically, sportingly and financially, then you just have to admit that they are great. Our job is to catch up with them, and if it takes a long time, it takes so much time.
I remember how people were outraged when we dominated the championship. But sport should come first, not entertainment. We shouldn’t be like wrestling where scripts are written in advance. We don’t want that.”
It has indeed happened in the past that there have been some adjustments to the regulations – this was precisely the case in 2021, when the FIA changed the rules related to the underside of the car, under the pretext that it was necessary to reduce the rules for the underside of the car. the load on Pirelli tires. However, it is believed that this allowed Red Bull to overtake Mercedes in speed, and that season ended in an ambiguous end, leaving Max Verstappen ahead of Lewis Hamilton to become world champion.
“I think we missed the 2021 championship for many reasons,” the head of the Mercedes team referred to this example. – Firstly, it was the last race of the season. But we also lost because the rules were set up to narrow our lead.
We dominated in the 2020 season. I think we had the best car we ever made back then. But towards the end of the season the rules were changed, the bottom had to be redone, and this was done precisely to hold us back.
Look at the results in 2021: we were no longer as competitive as Red Bull, but we still managed to come back and start claiming victory in the championship again. But at the time, regulatory changes were clearly aimed at changing the balance of power.”
Source: F1 News
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