David Coulthard warns too much Red Bull success ‘could take away magic’ from F1

Too much domination could negatively impact ꧂F1, reckon💯s David Coulthard.

Max Verstappen celebrates winning his 19th race of the 2024 F1 season
Max Verstappen celebrates winning his 19th race of the 2024 F1 season

David Coulthard has admitted his former team Red Bull’s domination of F1 risks taking away s꧑ome of th𝓀e magic from the sport.

Since the introduct🦂ion of ground-effect regulations in 2022, Red Bull have emerged🔯 as F1’s dominant force, winning back-to-back double world championships for the past two seasons.

Red Bull won 21 of the 22 races last year in what turned out to be the most dominant F1 season in history, as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen ro꧙mped to his third straight crown with a record-breaking 19 victories.

But with Red Bull blowing away their opposition and being the red-hot favourites for more silverware once again in 2024, ✨there have been suggestions their success might have a negative impact on F1.

Even Coulthard, who ended his F1 career racing for Red Bull between 2005 and 2008 and is still involved with the team🦋 as a show run driver, has shared his concerns.

“That expression ‘fa𝕴miliarity breeds contempt’? If you adapt that to sport, the s𒐪ame thing goes,” Coulthard told .

“Too much success kind of takes away the magic. With sport, we look to be inspired, to grow, to move forward🐟, and if one team is doing all that, then it doesn’t give enough hope for everybody.”

However, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner does not believe there will be a repeat of the team’s domination in 202♏4.

“I don’t think we’ll ever see a r𓆉epeat, certainly not in our lifetim🎶es, of what we managed to achieve [last] year with a car that’s managed the kind of dominance of RB19,” Horner told F1.com.

“I’m fully expecting with stable regulati🧜ons, [there’ll be] diminishing returns for us, because I think we got to the ཧtop of the curve quicker than others.

"The field is going to converge. For us, it’s difficult⭕ to know who that will be. Will it be McLaren? Will it be Ferrari? Will it be ﷺMercedes? It keeps moving around behind us. But that’s what we’re fully expecting going into [this] year.

“There’s always a reset as you go into the following year. I’m convinced that y✅ou’ll 𓂃see a lot more cars that look like the RB19 philosophy going into next year.

“If you stand still in this business, you tend to be going backwards. I think we have got up that curve quicker than others, but we’re into a la♌w of diminishing returns.”

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