Lauda concerned about Liberty Media's decisions

At the beginning of November, the FIA ​​and Liberty Media communicated about the engine regulations likely to come into force from the 2021 season. Some players in the discipline were cautious about the announcement of the V6 Turbo hybrid engine, such as the Renault and Mercedes teams.

The sports advisor of the brand with the star, Niki Lauda expressed his concern about the decisions taken by the new owners of the F1. “It was a good thing for the Americans at Liberty Media to take their time, to understand what F1 represents, but we are reaching the end of this period”, he explained to the daily La Gazetta dello Sport. “What they think about the future of F1 worries me. »

“The FIA, Chase Carey (president of Formula One Group) and Ross Brawn (sports director of the discipline) repeat that we must increase the level of performance, but the DNA of F1 is quite the opposite. You are naive if you believe that in order to make races more interesting, you need a different winner at each GP. F1 is competition.”, continues the Austrian.

The three-time world champion would like to preserve technical research in sport. “Car development is one of the pillars of F1, without forgetting the courageous side of the drivers. However, we penalize the best teams, and we protect drivers as if they were babies – with the Halo for example. »