F1 News: Toto Wolff distances himself from Christian Horner 'trap' after STUNNING suggestion

Toto Wolff and Christian Horner at F1 Testing — Photo: © IMAGO

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Wolff distances himself from Horner 'trap' after STUNNING suggestion

The Austrian has been speaking about Red Bull's dominance

Sam Cook Digital Journalist

Sports Journalist who has been covering motorsport since 2023

Tuesday 19 March 2024 19:57

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has said that he doesn't want to fall into the same 'trap' that Christian Horner fell into with comments he made about Mercedes.

Wolff's team are currently enduring a barren spell on-track, with just one race win coming since the start of the 2022 season.

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Their 2024 has got off to a poor start once again, with Lewis Hamilton and George Russell seemingly not able to put up a serious fight for the podium positions in both Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

Red Bull, meanwhile, have continued their dominance over the rest of the teams on the Formula 1 grid, with Max Verstappen now having won 19 of the last 20 races, stretching back into 2023.

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Red Bull have won back-to-back championship doubles, while Verstappen has now won three consecutive drivers' world championships.

Seven-time world champion Hamilton is without a win since the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, and has had to watch Verstappen and Red Bull run away with several championships since then.

Now, Wolff has batted away a question about asking F1 to change regulations to stop one team from dominating quite so much, citing his own team's period of dominance between 2014-2021.

“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,” Wolff told media, speaking about Horner.

“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 an honest sport. The best performance is being rewarded from car, from machine and man.”

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