Ecclestone criticizes the boredom in Formula 1

“You should, yes you have to, achieve a certain level of equality between the teams when it comes to engines. The manufacturers have to understand that this is necessary to make the sport more attractive,” said the 87-year-old to the daily newspaper Die Welt Bahrain Grand Prix (Sunday, 17.10:XNUMX p.m./RTL): "The audience shouldn't know before the race who will win or not because one or two engines are hopelessly superior."

The premier class “urgently needs good and exciting sport, i.e. exciting races. I am a big fan of Mercedes and have great respect for their performance, but they win too much,” said Ecclestone about the series winners. In the past four years, Lewis Hamilton won three world championship titles in the Silver Arrow, and Nico Rosberg was crowned world champion in 2016. Mercedes also won the team championship four times in a row.

“Again: They are doing a great job,” said Ecclestone, but “if they had sold or lent their engines or just one engine to a team – for example to Red Bull – when the issue was current a few years ago , we would have experienced better, more exciting races and perhaps other world champions too. We wouldn't have experienced the total dominance of Mercedes. In my opinion that would have been better for Mercedes because it would have been better for the audience."

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Ecclestone criticizes the boredom in Formula 1

Former chief promoter Bernie Ecclestone criticizes the boredom in Formula 1.

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