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Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says only Red Bull has gotten current F1 rules “right”, and “none of us has another choice than to catch up”.
Ahead of the British Grand Prix, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff discussed the advantage Red Bull has over all the other teams on the grid.
“I think these cars are just very different in the way you develop them and you look at them, than any previous regulations,” the Austrian said.
“It’s not trivial at all to develop the tools and assess them in the right way, to have the quickest car.
“And I believe that only one team has gotten that right so far, and obviously they carry that advantage with them. They are not stopping.
“And all of us behind: Ferrari, Aston Martin, and us – and you can see sometimes Alpine – we are all in a very tight bunch.
“I believe, if everybody runs the same tyre in that previous session, we’re all within tenth or two. So it shows they’re tricky. And it continues to be an interesting journey.
“But at the end of the day, it’s mega: we need to break the run of a team that is the benchmark at the moment on merit, good engineering and a very good driver.
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“Then we just got to go there. None of us has another choice than to catch up.”
When asked if he is worried that Formula 1 is becoming boring, and “people will start to turn off”, Toto said:
“From a fan’s perspective, I look at it and say, yeah, the risk is there. But the risk was there over the eight years that we were winning, and I would have said the same thing back then.
“You have the same team, the same driver winning all over, it becomes less variable.
“But, you know, as I said then, being in the positive situation, I would also say today that this is a meritocracy. And it’s honest.
“And when a team and the driver are just so far ahead, it’s because they’re simply doing a better job than everybody else, within the regulatory framework.
“And there is no way around it,” he concluded.
