This week, Mercedes executive director Toto Wolff shared his perspective on the awarding of the world champion title. The Austrian believes that the crown will be given following a collision a la Prost\/Senna (the two drivers collided in Japan in 1989 and 1990, which led to Prost and then Senna winning the title).<\/p>\n
This Friday, during the press conference, Christian Horner was invited to respond to comments made by his counterpart at Mercedes. “I was disappointed to read the comments suggesting that [a collision] would be tolerated,” said the British director.<\/p>\n
But I think we want a really fair fight by the end of the championship and any driver would want to win the championship on the track. We are a team of competitors and if we can achieve this feat – and it’s a huge task – then we wouldn’t want to win a championship through a collision between drivers. There have already been enough of them [Silverstone and Monza].<\/p>\n
\u00ab I think what we saw in Austin was a great battle between two very talented drivers, and with a few more races like Austin before the end of the year, I think the biggest winner will be Formula 1. No one wants to see a championship decided in the gravel trap,” he concluded.<\/p>\n
On the eve of the race in Mexico, Max Verstappen is leading his championship rival, Lewis Hamilton, by 12 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Red Bull team principal hopes that the title will be decided fairly and not awarded following a collision as Toto Wolff believes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":35995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[152,215,1334],"class_list":["post-7714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-christian-horner","tag-declaration","tag-red-bull"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n