Lewis Hamilton to get his wish as FIA tipped to 'screw over' Christian Horner and Red Bull..

Lewis Hamilton looks set to get his wish for intervention on Red Bull with former Le Mans winner Richard Bradley suggesting that the FIA will try to ‘screw over’ the reigning constructor champions. The 2026 technical regulation changes will attempt to improve the on-screen product for F1 fans.

Thanks to the dramatic extent of Red Bull’s advantage over Mercedes, Ferrari and the rest of the field, the team have already been able to commence work on the RB19’s successor, making it highly likely that the Milton Keynes-based team will extend their dominance into the 2024 and hold their momentum until the new technical regulations in 2026.

Bradley, however, believes that the FIA will eventually intervene to put an end to Red Bull’s stint at the top. “The way of FOM and the FIA, they always design rule cycles specifically to screw the team that’s leading at the time, because they will literally want to put that team down,” he explained to the On Track GP podcast.

“You can tell that they’re going to target Red Bull,” he continued. “Then we’re going to find what makes Red Bull weak and try and exploit that. So there will come a time in the cycle that Red Bull will lose out and another manufacturer may come to the top. I think then that’s when you’re going to have to seriously reevaluate the situation.”

Hamilton had previously suggested that the FIA should implement a development start date in the near future, only after which would teams be allowed to begin work on the following season’s machinery. This would theoretically serve to curb the momentum that comes from dominating the championship.

Speaking to Sky Sports F1 about the matter earlier this summer, Hamilton explained: “Say for example you start the season and you know you have a bad car you could just say actually I’m not going to bother with developing this car, I’ll put all this money into next year’s car and have an advantage.”

While Hamilton’s calls for intervention on Red Bull’s domination come from the biased view of their biggest rivals, there is an appetite in the wider F1 community for the FIA to attempt to reel Max Verstappen and the team in.

A clean sweep of Grand Prix victories would be a phenomenal and unprecedented achievement from Red Bull, but if F1 and Liberty Media want to keep hold of their rapidly-expanding casual fanbase, the current predictable spectacle will soon threaten to undo some of the sport’s impressive growth.

Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc's teams dug out by Red Bull chief with more pain due

Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has claimed that Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc’s teams “haven't taken a single step forward” in the development race this season as the Milton Keynes-based team continue to dominate at the front of the field.

Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez have combined to take victory in all 12 races during the first half of the season with the Dutch driver all but mathematically confirming his third successive Drivers’ Championship title with a staggering ten individual victories.

Unfortunately for the rest of the field, and any fans whose allegiances don’t lie with Red Bull, the rest of the grid have struggled to catch up to the reigning constructor champions with the performance gap to the rest of the field remaining unassailable.

"I never expected to have such an advantage over Ferrari and Mercedes,” Marko explained during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend. “We just developed our car and we're honestly surprised that the others haven't done a good job.

"Both Mercedes and Ferrari haven't taken a single step forward. That's why we're so far ahead of them right now. Behind us, our first rival is constantly changing. One time it's Ferrari, another it's McLaren and yet another is Aston Martin or Mercedes.”