Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff admitted that Red Bull has done an incredible job lately, and won’t ask for changes in the regulations like Christian Horner did a few years ago when the Brackley-based outfit was so dominant.
Back in 2014-2015, Mercedes was in a league of its own compared to other teams. This caused many rivals to ask for a change in the rule book to equalize the performance and make F1 more entertaining.
One team principal to advance this idea was Horner, who said: “Mercedes have done a super job. They have a good car, a fantastic engine and they have two very good drivers.
“The problem is that the gap is so big that you end up with three-tier racing. That is not healthy for F1.
“They [the FIA] have a power output so they can see what every power unit is producing. They have the facts. They could quite easily come up with a way of some form of equalization.”
Fast-forward to 2024, and it is now Red Bull which is dominating in F1, and it has been doing it for three years already. Despite that, Wolff praised the Milton Keynes-based squad work like Horner did in the past, but also added that he won’t ask for a change in order to make things more equal.
“I don’t want to fall in the trap of a fellow team principal from next door in 2014/15 who said we should change the regs because it’s too dominant,” said Wolff.
“I think they [Red Bull] have done, by far, the best job of all the teams over the last two years, and credit where credit is due. I mean, they are literally disappearing in the distance as they want and there’s nobody else close.
“It’s just that they are in a different league. And our sport is honest. The best performance is being rewarded from car, from machine and man.”