Brown: A big control on the podium in Formula 1 is unacceptable

LONDON (Reuters) – The dominance of the top three teams on the championship podium over the past two seasons is not acceptable, said Ross Brown, director of engine management at the Formula One World Championship.

Sergio Perez, the Force India rider, was the only outside rider ahead of Mercedes and Ward Ball, on the 21-race podium this season, after finishing third in Azerbaijan in April.

Canadian Lance Stroll also took the same position on the Baku circuit in 2017 during a 20-race season.

"Going up twice on 123 is unacceptable, especially with the development of technology and the distribution of money," said Brown in a show for the season after the Abu Dhabi final on Sunday.

"This is a problem we are following with the FIA ​​and the teams because the future of Formula 1 depends on it," said Ferrari's former technical director and former president of FIA. Mercedes.

Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull have only won the Formula 1 since the launch of a six-cylinder turbo engine and two energy recovery systems in 2014.

Sunday's race was number 100 from that time and won world champion Lewis Hamilton five times in 51 races with Mercedes.

Renault's Nikko Holkenberg is in seventh place overall, "the best of the others" and has now won 156 races without ever getting on the podium.

Brown noted that seven of the 10 teams participated in their own championship.

"We have a lot of solutions and we have to accept that things can not stay the same longer.

"I do not want to say insult in talking about the championship" others ", it's a way of describing the situation and the competition between them was exciting, but it's hard for the fans to get excited for a fight for eighth place. "

The first three finished in the men's championship before the end of the season, Mercedes winning the title for the fifth consecutive year.

Some regulations will change in 2019 with changes to the genealogy to make it easier to get the pilots together and compete on the right track before major changes are planned from 2021.