Four-time world champion and Renault Sport ambassador Alain Prost says dominance from one team is nothing new following calls from Renault’s customer team, Red Bull, to bring about equalisation measures.
The Milton Keynes outfit has threatened to quit the sport if the FIA fails to rein Mercedes dominance in, claiming it is killing the sport and turning fans away.
Prost however doesn’t believe this is the case and says it’s not unusual for one team to dominate because they have simply done a better job – but he insists domination never lasts forever.
“Somehow it feels like people no longer accept it when one team dominates, when someone does a good job,” he told F1i. “But that is not Formula One. Formula One is about competing. Mercedes has been preparing for three or four years to reach the top.
“Unfortunately, this might take two or three years before someone reels them in, but it’s part of the game,” he added.
The Frenchman also claimed that smaller teams struggling for sponsorship is normal, but things have gotten worse because of the current financial climate which is only recently begun to recover.
“Then, what is happening at the back of the field with the smaller teams, their issues, this has always existed. Now, these problems have been made even more acute because we are in times of economic crisis and it has become harder to find sponsors.”
