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Former F1 driver Johnny Herbert says people can say that domination has “always been a part of F1”, but it was never to “the extent that Red Bull is doing now”.
Lewis Hamilton recently said that Formula 1 should do something to make sure that one team does not dominate the sport for several years.
This caused some, including Red Bull’s Christian Horner, Helmut Marko and Max Verstappen, to says he was being ‘hypocritical’, because he wasn’t saying that while Mercedes was on top.
Those same people ignore the fact that the budget cap is making it very difficult for other teams to catch up to the dominant team, which was not the case during Mercedes’ run of success.
Former F1 driver Johnny Herbert agrees that such a domination is not good for the sport, and Formula 1 and the FIA should do something to stop it.
“Christian Horner has made it clear that Red Bull have no intention of letting up and not dominating the sport,” Herbert told casinosite.hl.
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“That worries me. That is a mentality I understand, but from the racing point of view it is not a good thing if all they want to do is dominate.
“We want to make the sport better. I would have thought Max is probably bored out of his skull. It is lovely winning and dominating but it is not challenging.
“And Max is the type of character that wants to be challenged. No-one is able to do that.
“You can say it’s up to everyone else to raise their game to create what Red Bull have created.
“As an ex-racer I’d want to be pushed and tested and challenged, I’d want to race. I wouldn’t want to just disappear into the distance. It is nice every now and again.
“The team’s whole ethos is to dominate but we don’t want domination. That was the whole concept of what the ground effect car was supposed to have improved.
“It concerns me. How do you change that to create more competition? After all, it is a competition. Or supposed to be.
“You can always throw at me that it’s always been a part of F1. It has but not for the extent that Red Bull is doing now, for four or more years.
“I still feel that the teams have too much control in terms of where that development should go for the future of F1.
“That is where I think it needs to be taken back by the FIA to work out what needs to be done to make racing better without teams opposing everything,” the Briton concluded.
