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Ferrari: F1 missed a great opportunity to improve racing

Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto feels "ashamed" Formula One did not agree on a change to the specification of this year's tyres in an attempt to curb Mercedes' dominance this season.

Mercedes is the only team that has consistently got this year's Pirelli tyres to work, while Ferrari and Red Bull have struggled to keep them in the right temperature range. That contributed to Mercedes winning the first eight races of the 2019 season before Max Verstappen took the first non-Mercedes victory since the 2018 Mexican Grand Prix at Sunday's Austrian Grand Prix.

A particularly dominant Mercedes victory two weeks ago at the French Grand Prix fuelled concerns that the sport had become too one-sided and led to a proposal from Ferrari and Red Bull to change the tyre specification in an attempt to slow Mercedes down.