Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton forward of the Grand Prix.
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Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton says the game should “do better” to create tighter competitors amid fears that Red Bull’s domination may lead to boredom.
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, winner of the previous two championships, leads the driving force’s standings after splitting the opening 4 races of the season with teammate Sergio Perez.
Arriving for Sunday’s Miami Grand Prix, drivers spoke brazenly about how far forward Red Bull’s automobiles have been of the remainder of the sector with Ferrari.
Hamilton was requested on Wednesday if there was a hazard of American fans shedding curiosity in Formula One given the overall domination of 1 workforce and the Mercedes driver mentioned whereas he nonetheless discovered pleasure, he understood the issues.
“It’s not boring for me,” he mentioned. “I’m challenged every single day trying to get back to the front. So, it’s definitely not boring from my perspective. But as a racing fan watching, I can understand.
“Because there’s not as a lot competitors as they’re maybe used to with NFL and with NBA in the meanwhile. That’s not my doing. I imply, we’d like to do higher, I feel, as a sport.
“They have already tried to bring the teams closer, but it never seems to work. All I can say is that we’re working as hard as we can to close it up and get back to that. Give them some more excitement.”
In three of the 4 races this season, Red Bull have taken the highest two locations on the rostrum, with Hamilton’s second place in Australia the one exception.
Hamilton’s Mercedes teammate George Russell recommended that fans would possibly need to focus not on the race for the winner however on the competition between one of the best of the remaining.
“I think the competition we’ve got at the moment with Ferrari and Aston Martin, every race we go to is really close between us in qualifying and the pace is really close in the race,” he mentioned.
“If that was a fight for the victory, it would probably be one of the most exciting seasons we have seen in a long, long time and it is obviously just a shame that there’s two more cars well out in front So, forget about those two and just watch from (position) P3, it may be a bit more exciting.”
But Russell conceded the issue was actual and a tough one for Formula One to cope with.
“It is challenging,” Russell mentioned. “In no sport do you want to see somebody dominate and you want to have competition and that’s what we all want in an ideal world. You have 20 drivers and 10 teams all capable of winning every single race if you do the right job.”
F1’s new technical guidelines introduced in final season are being blamed by some for the dearth of leisure however Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso mentioned they wanted to be given extra time.
The guidelines have been designed to create a better area and encourage overtaking however whereas there may be little signal of both occurring, the Spanish two-times world champion mentioned endurance was required.
“If Red Bull were not so far ahead, it is a very interesting fight with three or four teams within 0.1-0.2secs and maybe then we would be saying the rules were a success,” he mentioned.
Hamilton, whereas sympathetic to the targets of the rule modifications, mentioned they wanted to be checked out.
“I don’t know what the solution is for the future but I think we are going to have to continue to adapt these regulations moving forward, otherwise it could be the same as it is now for years,” he mentioned.
Alonso mentioned tires overheating on following automobiles pushing was one issue that was impacting competitors, a view that was backed by Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz.
Verstappen, the defending Miami champion, had issues about trendy automobiles limiting the chance to overtake.
“The cars are probably too heavy, they’re too stiff, so you can’t really run a curb to try and find a bit of a different line,” mentioned the Dutchman.
“Everyone is driving more or less the same line nowadays because of just how the cars work.”
