F1 News: Toto Wolff Slams Current State Of Formula One With Snide Comment

Despite Mercedes' dominance from 2014 to 2020, F1 wasn't as unexciting as it is now with only a single driver winning most of the races.

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has revealed his thoughts about the current state of F1 to the media and we're pretty sure that most Formula 1 fans would side with him. In fact, he told the media everything that fans must be itching to say to the FIA, if they got a chance.

Wolff claims that his drivers won every championship from 2014 to 2020, with most except one being won by Lewis Hamilton. Despite the consistency, 2014 and 2016 saw close competition between Nico Rosberg and Hamilton. And that is precisely what Toto Wolff is trying to say. 

Wolff explains that regardless of Mercedes' dominance, a sense of competition existed between the drivers that added more to the sport. Look at today's scene and what do you see?

The season is at its halfway mark and Max Verstappen has won 10 out of 12 Grand Prix. At 314 points, there is nobody near him and teammate Sergio Perez lags behind by more than a hundred points. Coming to the Constructor's Standings- Red Bull has earned twice as many points as its nearest rival. 

This has made the sport all the more predictable and unexciting as per Wolff when compared to the era of Mercedes dominance that saw its drivers entertain F1 fans. Speaking to the media, he said:

“I don’t know whether our dominance was similar or less (than Red Bull’s). I think we had years where we did it in the same way.

“But at least we had two cars that were fighting each other so that caused a little bit of entertainment for everyone. And that’s not the case at the moment.”

Apart from Red Bull, Mercedes is the only team to have won a race in the last year. But after George Russell's victory at Interlagos toward the end of the previous season, Red Bull pulled away and created a gap so wide that even Mercedes hadn't predicted. Wolff revealed: 

“I often say that it’s a meritocracy and it’s up to us to fight back. Did we expect that gap? Certainly not.

"I think with the last step of upgrade it seem they have another advantage that they were able to exploit. But again it always gets me back to the point of we’ve just got to dig in and and do the best possible job.”

Last weekend, Red Bull won their 12th consecutive race in Hungary, breaking McLaren's record from 1988 during the Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna days.