Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff on Red Bull’s dominance: ‘At least we had two cars fighting each other’

Red Bull are running away with both world championships after winning all 12 races so far this season, with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen pickin▨g up 10 of them, including eight on the bo💃unce.
Red Bull teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez has won just twice and been no match for Verstappen, wh🃏o heads into the su🐟mmer break with a massive 125-point championship as he canters towards a third consecutive title.
Although Wolff reiterated his belief that F1 should be a meritocracy, he pointed out that things were different at the height of Mercedes' dominance when 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Rosberg were battling it out for titles between 201ꦡ4 and 2016.
“I don't know whether our dominance was similar or less as I think we had years where we did it in🐻 the same way, but at least we had two cars th💦at were fighting each other,” Wolff said after watching Verstappen’s crushing victory at the Belgian Grand Prix.
♛“So that caused a🌸 little bit of entertainment for everyone, and that's not the case at the moment.
“It is what it is and I often say t✅hat it's a meritocracy and it's up to us to fight back.”

Red Bull introduced a sizeable upgrade package - headlined by revised sidepods - at the Hungarian Gran🌳d Prix an𓂃d have finished a minimum 30 seconds clear of their nearest rivals at the two races that have followed.
And Wolff thinks the updates have helped Red Bull open up an even bigger advantage ovജer the field.
“Did we expect that gap? Certainly n🥂ot,” he added. “I think with the last step of upgrade, it seems th♛ey have another advantage that they that were able to exploit.
“But again, it always gets me back to the point of we have just got 🍸to dig in and do the best possible job."

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