![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/lewis-hamilton-showed-true-feelings-on-mercedes-situation-in-fia-plea-to-slow-red-bull/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0_Lewis-Hamilton-exclusive-social-PA.png&description=After Lewis Hamilton asked the FIA to step in to stop Red Bull carrying over their car advantage into next season, David Coulthard believes the Brit's frustration with his own situation is showing Lewis Hamilton only asked the FIA to step in to stop Red Bull because he's not the one in the dominant car, according to David Coulthard. Hamilton's Mercedes team has struggled to compete at the very front over the last two seasons. As a result, the seven-time world champion is without a win since December 2021 in Jeddah. Red Bull are the ones ruling the roost now. Max Verstappen looks destined to secure his third world title this season. And, with both championships firmly in their grasp, Red Bull have already switched development focus to their 2024 car. That is an advantage which Hamilton recently decried as unfair. He called for the FIA to change the rules to stop teams from doing that until a certain date is set in stone. But Red Bull chief Christian Horner laughed off by that suggestion by asserting such a rule would be "incredibly hard to police". Speaking to Mirror Sport ahead of this weekend's British Grand Prix, Coulthard said Hamilton's motivations are clear. "Clearly, Lewis is going to try to get some kind of restriction", he said. "He wouldn't be asking for it if he was the guy in that car – and he wasn't when he was the guy in that car. "Lewis is a brilliant driver. He's won seven world championships and, in my mind, will go down as one of the best drivers in the history of the sport. The guy is phenomenal – naturally a hard but clean racer. I've got so much respect for him. "But I don't remember him ever saying, when he was in the dominant era, 'I really feel everybody should step forward and that we should slow down our rate of development because currently Nico Rosberg and I are quicker than anyone else and it's getting embarrassing'. "The weird thing about our sport is that it's too much of a business to be a pure sport, and too much of a sport to be an o){kind=link}
After Lewis Hamilton asked the FIA to step in to stop Red Bull carrying over their car advantage into next season, David Coulthard believes the Brit’s frustration with his own situation is showing
Lewis Hamilton only asked the FIA to step in to stop Red Bull because he’s not the one in the dominant car, according to David Coulthard.
Hamilton’s Mercedes team has struggled to compete at the very front over the last two seasons. As a result, the seven-time world champion is without a win since December 2021 in Jeddah.
Red Bull are the ones ruling the roost now. Max Verstappen looks destined to secure his third world title this season.
And, with both championships firmly in their grasp, Red Bull have already switched development focus to their 2024 car. That is an advantage which Hamilton recently decried as unfair.