Max Verstappen: Toto Wolff says Red Bull driver's new record for consecutive wins is 'completely irrelevant'

Max Verstappen broke a Formula 1 grounds with his 10th consecutive triumph astatine the Italian Grand Prix

Mercedes squad main Toto Wolff says Red Bull operator Max Verstappen's all-time grounds of 10 consecutive wins is "completely irrelevant".

Wolff said: "For me, these kinds of records are wholly irrelevant. They were irrelevant successful our bully days astatine Mercedes.

"I don't cognize however galore races we won successful a row. [I] didn't adjacent cognize determination was a count."

However, Wolff did admit that Verstappen's occurrence "shows a large operator successful a large car competing astatine an highly precocious level".

In a 2nd reply connected Verstappen helium added: "By the way, that record, I would deliberation it's a bully one, due to the fact that it's perfection."

And helium said that helium expected Red Bull to spell connected to triumph each contention this season, barring an error.

"I deliberation they request to screw it up themselves successful bid not to triumph [every race] this season," Wolff said.

Ferrari squad main Frederic Vasseur said: "They ever had mega gait - from Monza to Monaco, they were performing and this is impressive. But the astir awesome for maine is that Max - it's not conscionable astir the past 10 races, it's astir the past 2 years - I would accidental helium didn't marque a azygous mistake successful the races.

"It's easier to not marque mistakes erstwhile you person a borderline connected the others, but adjacent successful these benignant of circumstances helium is capable to negociate a concern precise well.

"To not bash a azygous mistake implicit 2 seasons is conscionable mega."

Red Bull squad main Christian Horner said: "You person to recognise and applaud what Max is doing astatine the moment. It's precise special. We shouldn't detract from that successful immoderate way.

"In sport, precise seldom things similar this hap and it's a aureate infinitesimal for him and surely a aureate infinitesimal for the team."

There person been questions wrong F1 arsenic to whether governing assemblage the FIA should legislate to effort to halt Red Bull's domination, arsenic they did astatine the extremity of 2020 erstwhile a regularisation alteration for the 2021 play affected Mercedes much than different teams and led to a ferocious rubric conflict betwixt Verstappen and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton, with the Dutchman yet coming retired connected apical aft winning the arguable play finale astatine Abu Dhabi.

But Wolf said: "If a squad dominates successful the mode Max has done with Red Bull, past just dues. This is simply a meritocracy.

"As agelong arsenic you comply with the regulations - technical, sporting and fiscal - we conscionable request to say, good done. And if it takes a agelong clip [to drawback up], past it takes a agelong time.

"I retrieve radical crying foul erstwhile it was us. Entertainment follows sport, not the different mode around. You can't beryllium WWE [wrestling] - we don't privation to beryllium scripted content."

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