Perez: Formula 1 is far too boring

Ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix weekend, Perez told Sportsmail, "Formula 1 is far too boring, you turn on the TV and you know who is going to win the race.

"We want the best possible cars we can drive but we also want everyone to be able to be in with a chance so it becomes more competitive. Right now F1 is far too predictable.

"You don't have to be a genius, you just have to be able to create the F1 that you have in the midfield and if you can provide that, you will have a better show right to the last race and to the last lap. That's what F1 should be about.

"Now, you turn on the TV and you know that Mercedes will be the winners, Ferrari will be second and Red Bull will finish third. If there is one thing I would change about F1 it would be providing the equality.

Perez added during the F1 drivers' press conference at red Bull Ring on Thursday, "I wouldn’t say the sport is in crisis but it’s certainly losing interest from a lot of people. You have some races that are incredibly boring at the front of field but when you look at the midfield.

"I mean when you look at the last race, what happened at the midfield until the last lap, they decided who won the battle, so I think that was incredible. I think the problem is more with the top teams, the difference that there is.

"I think the whole pack has to be a lot closer together, give equal opportunity to everyone and have more teams capable of winning. The way you do that is by making the rules a bit more complex and not so much gap between teams. That will be the best way to create interesting races," ventured Perez.

The Mexican is not alone, even the man doing the bulk of the winning - Lewis Hamilton - acknowledged after he romped unchallenged to victory in France last week, “If you say that it’s boring… I totally understand it.”

Meanwhile, there are many who believe the sport at the highest level is over-regulated to the detriment of racing, the seasonal complaints fired up again recently in the wake of Sebastian Vettel's controversial penalty during the Canadian Grand Prix which denied fans what was panning out to be a cracking final 20 laps.

Perez himself was a victim of a marginal call on Sunday in France when the FIA race stewards who gave him a penalty for gaining an advantage when he went wide in the opening lap melee on the eye-sore Circuit Paul Ricard.

The Racing Point driver explained, "I looked back at the video and saw I gained an advantage, but at the time during the race you do not know where you are, so they could have told me to drop places. I stuck to the rules."

'We have far too big run-offs and there is too much advantage in going off the track. I think a solution for that would be to put in grass instead of run-off," added the veteran of 163 grand prix starts.

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