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Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says he doesn’t “want to fall in the trap of my fellow team principal from next door”.
Red Bull has been completely dominating Formula 1 since 2022, and many are starting to doubt that their rivals will be able to catch up before the next rule change in 2026.
While some observers believe the FIA should step in to artificially slow down the Austrian team before 2026, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says he will not go down that path.
“I don’t want to fall in the trap of my fellow team principal from next door [Red Bull team boss Christian Horner] in 2014 or ’15,” Wolff said.
“He said we should change the regs because [Mercedes is] too dominant.
“I think they’ve [Red Bull] done by far the best job of all the teams over the last two years and credit where credit is due.
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“I mean they are literally disappearing in the distance as they want, and there’s nobody else close.
“They had Ferrari today, Leclerc a little bit and if Sainz would have been here, they would have been second best on the road.
“But there is not this huge performance differential between everybody that follows up and down.
“Depending on the track, it’s just that they are in a different league,” the Austrian concluded.
