WOLFF: FERRARI is humiliated by the ENGINE EQUALIZATION proposal

Engine manufacturers in Formulas 1 they are currently considering the introduction of engine freezing from 2022 forward, which would open the way Red Bullto take over the engines Honda, who is leaving the royal motorsport class after the end of the 2021 season, and is using them on his own.

Mercedes advocates this step, especially if it means that both teams will Red Bull in Alpha Tauri, the rest in Formula 1. Also Ferrari has now expressed support for the freeze, however Italians they want to set up a system that would make manufacturers who are in view engine performance on the downside, which also includes Ferrari, allowed the gap to be filled before freezing. Toto wolff mocks this proposal of the team from Maranello. “I think this would be the beginning of the end of Formula 1,”So the team boss Mercedes. "The drive unit is not only measured by power, but also depends on driving, weight, cooling, so the introduction of a simple formula that suits everyone is not possible and Mercedes will not support it."

Wolff he says the idea he has Mattia binotto, the head of the Ferrari team, named engine convergence, not only contradicts the principle, but should Ferrari, which needs help catching up with competitors, be understood as humiliation. "In the past, we had a token system when the new rules came in, but because some of our colleagues wanted the tokens to be abolished so they could catch up, we agreed to remove them,He added Austrian. "Now some of our colleagues are coming back with a system of convergence, which, as I said, is an insult."

Wolff continues: “Looking back over the last few years and the development of engine performance, Ferrari had clearly the most powerful engine in 2018 and by far the best in 2019. And we developed our engine, all the way to pushing the boundaries, to be able to bring something to the track this year. hoping it would be enough to catch up with them. Therefore, I do not understand that any car manufacturer who has confidence in its ability to develop a powertrain and chassis would want some kind of mechanism to equalize the powertrains. I don’t think anyone would accept such humiliation in public."