Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says Red Bull have a 'great advantage' via their second team AlphaTauri, albeit a 'very expensive' one. F1 mercedesamgf1 redbullracing
“We had Lewis [Hamilton] and Nico [Rosberg] and both had long-term contracts, Max was clearly an interesting youngster but at that moment we could have offered him a place in GP2 and then maybe a contract.
“It was a great advantage in their case to have the possibility to evaluate Honda before moving to the main team, but it is a very expensive operation,” he said.You have to be able to afford to spend 100 million a season to be able to judge the drivers, and I repeat, it’s the best way to do it, but it’s also very expensive.
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