He conceded that Red Bull were ahead “on merit”, stressing it was up to the rest of the field “to do a better job” of closing the gap to them. If Red Bull’s rivals keep sounding off about how ‘boring’ and lacking in entertainment the racing is, it could help to convince Formula One’s rulemakers that regulation change is necessary to rein Red Bull in.īut Wolff did not call for a change in the regulations.
After all, his two drivers, Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, were only able to finish sixth and eighth respectively, miles behind Red Bull’s Sergio Pérez and Max Verstappen, who were effectively in a race of their own at the front.
By Tom Cary, Senior Sports Correspondent, in BakuĪfter all the talk about how chaotic and crazy Azerbaijan would be, with Formula One’s controversial new sprint format being introduced at Baku’s sketchy street circuit, the main event itself, it has to be said, was a complete dud.Įven Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff admitted following Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix that the sport urgently needed to find a way to improve the show, describing the race as “boring”, with Red Bull’s cars “sailing off into the sunset” and the rest of the field largely stuck in one long drawn-out procession behind.
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