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Liberty: Mercedes dominance stunting growth

Formula 1 CEO, Chase Carey, is not expecting any big growth spurts with TV audiences given Mercedes' dominance so far in the 2019 campaign. Mercedes have won all seven races with Lewis Hamilton recording five victories and Valtteri Bottas picking up the other two in Australia and Azerbaijan. Reliability issues in Bahrain for Charles Leclerc and a controversial five-second penalty for Sebastian Vettel in Canada has taken two victories away from the Scuderia, leaving Mercedes already well on course for yet another World Championship double. TV audience figures are dropping in some regions, with the likes of German free-to-air broadcaster RTL reportedly seeing a 1,000,000 drop compared to...
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