F1 has gone 'too far' with tyre design - Wolff

Formula 1 and Pirelli went "too far" with trying to specifically design tyres to spice up the racing.

Mercedes has had a particularly up-and-down season with its 2023 car, but boss Toto Wolff pointed the finger at the tyres' characteristics on the new Las Vegas layout after Lewis Hamilton failed even to make Q3 late on Friday.

George Russell in the sister car, meanwhile, qualified P4 - just behind Red Bull's dominant Max Verstappen.

"The conclusion is that you see such big differences here between two identical cars," Wolff told Sky Deutschland. "We have to look at what we're doing.

"The tyre goes up and down by a few degrees and that makes the difference between grip and no grip."

So when told that F1 had specifically asked . . .