It’s like that with the comparisons. They often limp, here or there. So be it: Formula 1 is reminiscent of the Bundesliga in recent years. Red Bull rushes ahead, like FC Bayern. Because there is no imagination as to how the table leaders should stumble and give away the title, you can already look at what is happening behind them at the end of the first half of the season. Because it’s more exciting. You ask yourself: How entertaining would it be if the pursuers who were fighting so hard, Mercedes, Aston-Martin and Ferrari, were fighting for more than just second place? If you don’t win, you lose in the end. At least from the point of view of the industry.
Sonke Sievers
Deputy Head of Department for Sport Online.
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Before the British Grand Prix this Sunday (4 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for Formula 1 and on Sky), the fight for second place in Formula 1 lives from the fact that the hunters’ cars on the various racetracks are sometimes better, sometimes worse function. Recently in Austria, the many slow corners slowed down Mercedes. The long straights, however, hurt Aston Martin, the lack of speed is the biggest weakness of the AMR-23.