Weeks After Slamming the FIA for Persistent Changes, Max Verstappen Offers a Potential Solution to Avoid Dominance Like Red Bull

Every era in F1 has at least one team that’s the fastest of all. But it’s up to the other teams on the grid to rise to that level and bring the fight to them. This year, Red Bull Racing is once again head and shoulders above the rest. However, this time, the underperforming rivals, Ferrari and Mercedes failed to mount a challenge to the dominant Red Bull. So, it’s no surprise arguments are being made to bring in tweaks for a level playing field. Responding to those claims, Max Verstappen, however, gave a contradictory solution to the so-called problem.

Evidently, Verstappen is one the youngest old-school drivers the F1 sport has. While every driver on the grid came forward to support FIA’s tweaks to cater to the new generation of audience, the Dutchman remained their biggest critic. “Scrap the whole thing,” said Verstappen about the Azerbaijan sprint weekend, branding Formula 1’s plans to change the traditional format against ‘the DNA of the sport’. And recently, he argued how ‘unsteady’ formats could make the weekends more chaotic, further decreasing the competition in the front. 

Max Verstappen points out that there have always been dominant periods of teams and has a solution to bring the field closer together. “We have always seen situations like this in Formula 1. If the rules remain stable for a longer period of time, the field will also move closer together. Maybe this is something we should look into. There are always teams that find new loopholes and build an edge over the rest of the field,” the Dutchman said, as quoted by Motorsport.com

Explaining how if the rules were to remain stable for a little longer, the competition at the front would automatically increase, the 2x champ said, “If everyone has to look for small updates at the front, the rest can more easily get to the same level. At a certain point, it becomes a competition in which all the details can make the difference.’ The coming years could prove this. In addition to the largely stable rules in the coming years, Formula 1 has also taken some other measures to bring the field closer together.”

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So far, with a dominant pace advantage of RB19, Red Bull clean-sweep the field, winning all six races of the season. This left everyone wondering if Red Bull can win every race of the season.

Max Verstappen’s ‘unlikely’ response to Red Bull’s possibilities 

Looking at the Austrian team’s unprecedented success rate and pace advantage in the season, one would say ‘Obviously, Red Bull can win every race of the season’. So far, Red Bull has won all six races, with four 1-2 finishes. And in terms of pace, there’s no one else to challenge them as the RB19 is almost a 30s clear from the rest. So, although it will take an extraordinary amount of luck to win every Grand Prix, now is Red Bull’s best chance to do it. 

When asked if Red Bull could become the first team to win every race in 2023, Verstappen said, “How it looks at the moment, I think we can.” However, assuming a diplomatic tone, he later added, “But that is very unlikely to happen, there are always things that can go wrong or a retirement or whatever but purely on pace at the moment it looks like [it’s possible]. But we will always get to tracks where it doesn’t work out, or bad luck in qualifying and you make your own mistakes.”

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McLaren came close to winning every race in 1988, winning 15 out of 16 rounds. But no team has gone undefeated in the history of F1.