Speaking during the Austrian Grand Prix weekend, seven-time world champion Hamilton acknowledged that the championship was now in another period of one-team dominance given the run of ground-effects form currently enjoyed by Max Verstappen and Red Bull.
The Mercedes driver accepted that he had been the beneficiary of such levels of command previously, but reckons this pattern of ‘superteams’ will happen “over and over again”.
To allow the field to converge, he, therefore, recommended that teams should not be allowed to begin work on their car for the following season until a defined date.
He pitched: “When you're 100 points ahead, you don't really need to do a lot more development on your car. You can start earlier on your next car. With a budget cap that means spending that year's money on the next year's car.
“But if everyone had a time for example, if everyone knew when we can really start, whatever date it is, then no one has a head start. Then it's a real race in that short space of time for the future car.
“Maybe that would help everyone be closer the following year, maybe. I might be wrong. But something's got to change. When we were winning world championships, we could start earlier than everybody else.”
Source: Autosport