Lewis Hamilton says Method 1 ought to contemplate additional restrictions on automobile growth to cease groups constructing lengthy durations of domination.

“If everybody had a time [to start on the next car], no-one has a head begin after which it is an actual race,” he mentioned.

“Possibly that will assist everybody be nearer the next 12 months.”

F1 has already launched a bundle of guidelines aimed toward closing the sector over time, together with a sliding scale of analysis and growth time which favours the weaker groups over the extra profitable ones.

Purple Bull are this 12 months going through an additional restriction on permitted growth as punishment for exceeding the finances cap in 2021.

Hamilton mentioned such a cycle of dominance was one thing he loved with Mercedes from 2014-2020, and emphasised his feedback have been “not aimed toward one individual”.

He mentioned: “In my 17 years of being right here, even earlier than I obtained right here, you’d see durations of dominance and it continues to occur.

“I used to be very lucky to have a type of durations and Max [Verstappen] is having one now.

“With the best way it is going, it would proceed to occur again and again, and I do not assume we want that within the sport.

“When you’re to date forward, 100 factors forward, you do not actually need to do quite a lot of growth in your automobile so you can begin earlier in your subsequent automobile. And with the finances cap meaning spending that 12 months’s cash on subsequent 12 months’s automobile.

“One thing has obtained to alter as a result of after we have been successful championships, we may begin sooner than everybody else.

“It will be cool to see within the subsequent interval if we do not have big bands of time when one crew is forward as a result of we need to see higher racing.”

Verstappen has gained six of the eight races to date this season and his Purple Bull crew all of them. He leads the championship by 69 factors heading into this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix.

The Dutchman mentioned: “Life is unfair as properly. It isn’t solely in F1. We simply must take care of it.”

He added: “We weren’t speaking about that when he was successful his championships, proper? So I do not assume we must always now.”

Hamilton ‘nonetheless not capable of go to the restrict’

Hamilton mentioned upgrades to his Mercedes in latest races have been “a step in the best course” and that the automobile was “beginning to really feel like an actual racing automobile”.

However he added that its behaviour nonetheless wanted to be improved and that he was nonetheless not capable of drive it on the restrict.

“You need to have faith within the stability of a automobile,” Hamilton mentioned.

“You need to have faith that if you carry 150-180mph right into a nook, the automobile can be with you and help you thru that.

“The previous 12 months’s automobile has been so spiteful in that area. So you actually then have to tug again – you’ll be able to’t get close to the restrict.

“The modifications and course we’re going has enabled me to begin to discover that extra and have extra confidence in pushing nearer to the restrict, however I’m nonetheless not capable of get to the restrict so we nonetheless must make some extra modifications.

“Finally, there are basic modifications which have to alter for subsequent 12 months, and I’ve been asking for it for over a 12 months, and I count on to have that sooner or later which will certainly assist.”

An enormous improve for McLaren

Mercedes have extra new elements coming for the British Grand Prix subsequent weekend, however on the Purple Bull Ring this weekend quite a lot of consideration can be on McLaren, who’re introducing what their crew boss Andrea Stella has known as a “milestone” growth.

McLaren mentioned earlier than the season even began they’d missed their growth targets with this 12 months’s automobile and would have a tough begin to the marketing campaign.

Their first improve was on the fourth race of the season, and Austria marks the beginning of a three-step growth to be launched over the subsequent three.

The brand new elements can be fitted solely to Lando Norris’ automobile in Austria, earlier than team-mate Oscar Piastri receives them at Silverstone.

Norris mentioned that the dash race format being utilized in Austria, which supplies groups just one observe session earlier than they must lock down their automobile specification for the weekend, made life harder for McLaren.

“Received some new bits on my automobile and so forth, however it’s a dash race weekend so not the simplest days developing,” he mentioned.

“After all thrilling ones as properly, however not quite a lot of time to look into issues and assess them and preserve every part below management. It’s going to be robust, however we nonetheless assume it is the perfect factor to do. I’m wanting ahead to it.

“This was all meant to come back for Silverstone, so the actual fact we’ve a few of it, not even all of it, is already going to be a great step ahead.

“It is our first improve of the season, actually, for efficiency. The improve in Baku was not a efficiency deliverer. That is the up to date model of what we had there. I’ve confidence it is a respectable step.”