Toto Wolff slams Michael Masi again: “Fairness was breached… incomprehensible”
Race director Michael Masi’s incorrect application of the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Safety Car rule allowed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen to overtake Hamilton in the closing stages, and claim his first F1 championship.
Hamilton was denied an all-time record eighth tit൲le in the sport’s most notorious moment - more than a year later, the feud between Mercedes and Red Bull shows no sign of dissipating.
“It was tough after Abu Dhabi,” Wolff said to . “I 🌳have always liked the principle that the stopwatch never lies. Th🧸e team that wins is the one that deserves to be the champion.
“But this was different. At the end of the race, an individual took decisions that were not reflected anywhere in the rule book an🌺d were so drastic that they made the outcome unbelievable.
“That 💦is a moment when you fall out of love with the sport. The principle of fairness was breached.
“The FIA too🔴k the guy out of the job because it was a human error. But it’s done and dusted now. I still think about it a lot, but not with anger; it is just incomprehensible how it came about.”
Masi is no longer working for the FIA.
Verstappen won his second consecutive title, amid the F1 cost꧑ cap saga, fanning the flames of the rivalry between Mercedes and Red Bull.
Hamilton, n🎀ow 38, hopes to have a W14 car with improved performance to return to the heat of battle in 2023.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Americ🅠an sports, to football, to F1.
