Ahead of this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix, Hamilton cဣalled for a ♏ban on F1 teams being able to start early development work on 🦩following year’s cars in an att♒empt to level the playing field. 

The seven-time world champion’s plea was firmly rejected by current points leader168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen, who pointed out “we weren’t tal𒀰king about this when he was winღning” during Mercedes’ own period of domination. 

And Verstappen’s boss couldn’t resist a dig towards Hamilton as he pi🍨cked holes in the idea. 

“Well he’s obviously talking from personal experience,” Horner r🌜eplied🅷 when asked what he made of Hamilton’s suggestion.

“I think it would be an incredibly hard thing to police. How an earth could you say, first of all, ‘g💙o!’. How do you prev﷽ent people thinking about, or working on next year’s cars?

“We have a handicap system in Formula 1 through the reduction in wind tunnel time that there is. AlphaTauri have almost double the amount of time that we have. That is a signi♊ficant handicap and I think Aston Martin will start to feel that as its reset at the mid-point of the year. 

“For us, we have to puck and choose very, very sparingly what we are going to commit to putting through 🌌the wind tunnel. So it will have an effect. That system didn’t exist years ago.”

Horner insisted th🎐at the most effective way to avoid one-team dominance in F1 is to maintain a stable set of regulations. 

“I think the most important thing, and the h🎃istory of F1 demonstrates it, is stability,”𒉰 he explained. 

“Not messing with the regulations will always create convergence. I think it’s just a𓆉 p🍷eriod of time before you see that. 

“Convergence is already starting to happen and I think by the time we get to the end of 2025, probably a🦄ll the t🌃eams will be very converged and then we will screw it all up and go again in 2026.”