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Wolff 'not a fan' of regular F1 rule shake-ups

Mercedes Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff has stressed the importance of regulation stability in order to create closer competition in the sport and aid performance convergence between teams.

F1 embarked on its biggest technical regulation shake-up in two decades for 2017, with the cars being redesigned so they looked more aggressive and were multiple seconds per lap faster due to added levels of downforce.

Mercedes is aiming to become the first team to win consecutive titles across regulation changes in 2017, and while it has faced a greater challenge at the front of the field due to the shake-up, Wolff thinks this would have occurred naturally had the rules been kept stable.

"I think that if you keep the regulations stable, you will have more cars being competitive because the development curve by sheer nature flattens and it pushes the teams more together in terms of performance," Wolff said.

"Some of our competitors have campaigned for a complete shake-up, a massive complete shake-up of the regulations.

"What we have today is that it looks like two teams are far ahead of everybody else, although we do not feel satisfied with where we are. There is a huge gap, 1.6 or 1.7 seconds to Red Bull, and then another gap.

"I'm not such a fan of shaking up the regulations every two or three years just because someone wants to roll the dice, but it was a majority decision and once it was done, we've kind of switched into competition mode and tried to do the best of it." 

Zdroj: crash.net