Toto Wolff: Max Verstappen’s dominance in Hungary made the rest of the grid look ‘like a field of F2 cars’
- Toto Wolff thinks Max Verstappen is making the F1 field look like F2 cars
- This came after the Dutch rider claimed his ninth win of the season in Hungary
- The Mercedes team boss also admitted that “Red Bull had done a better job”
Toto Wolff believes Max Verstappen’s Red Bull is so dominant that the rest of the field looks like Formula 2 cars.
The Mercedes boss was speaking after Verstappen clinched his team’s record 12th consecutive win in Hungary on Sunday, eclipsing the previous best of McLaren’s Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost 35 years ago.
Verstappen beat Lando Norris into second place by more than half a minute and built up a 110-point lead at mid-season.
“It was like a bunch of Formula 2 cars against a Formula 1 car,” Wolff said after seeing Lewis Hamilton and George Russell in fourth and sixth. “In Formula 2, our car was fast. The F1 car won by 33 seconds.
“We had the second fastest car and we could talk about that, but that’s irrelevant because another car finished 39 seconds ahead of Lewis and was probably on the road most of the time.”
Toto Wolff (pictured) has claimed Max Verstappen’s dominance over the weekend is making the rest of the Formula 1 field look like F2 cars
The Dutch rider took his seventh straight win and his ninth of the season
Verstappen zoomed past the field to win by 33 seconds and claim a landslide victory in Hungary
“We’ll fight back and win races and championships, but we saw the pace Max had and that’s the grim reality.”
Hamilton has not won for 34 races – by far the longest losing streak of his career.
While Verstappen has won all but ten of them, the story goes back to Abu Dhabi 2021.
There are legitimate rumors that Red Bull will become Formula 1’s first “invincibles”.
But ahead of this Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix, boss Christian Horner was concerned about that prospect.
“How long can we continue this winning streak?” he said. ‘Who knows?
“We have another challenge ahead of us: a sprint race with the changeable conditions of Spa.”
“Anything can happen, so we pretty much tackle each event individually.”
Wolff, whose team is second in the Constructors’ Championship, admitted: “Red Bull did a better job”
Lewis Hamilton (left) was their fastest driver, finishing fourth, 39 seconds behind Verstappen
Red Bull director Christian Horner (left) admitted he doesn’t know how long his team can sustain their winning streak