24/06/2015
NEWS STORY
As Red Bull continues to complain about the current advantage enjoyed by Mercedes, and its customer teams, many are only too keen to point out that the Austrian team wasn't quite so vocal about performance differential during its own period of domination.
Likewise, Ferrari, which, though it has quietly got on with the job of improving its power unit over the last twelve months, made no secret of its unhappiness with 'the system' once its own 'reign' came to an end in the mid-2000s.
As his team heads towards a certain back-to-back Constructors' Championship, and its drivers remain the only realistic contenders for the drivers' title, Mercedes Toto Wolff cedes that periods of total domination are not good for F1.
"In terms of the spectacle, a team winning over a long period is definitely detrimental," he told City AM. "We have seen that with the six years at Ferrari in the early 2000s. We have seen that with Red Bull four years in a row. So it is the second year for us. It doesn't help the show, that's clear."