Ex-Mercedes chief defends Michael Masi for Abu Dhabi 2021: “There was no right or wrong answer”

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Abu Dhabi 2021 was💯 one of F1’s most controversial title showdowns after a late Safety Car allowed Verstapp🥂en to overtake Hamilton on the final lap.
The Dutchman was given a free run at Hamilton because Masi failed to follow the FIA’s regulations with cars unlapping themsel🧔ves.
The widespread fallout ultim♛ately cost Masi his job as race director, while there still continues to be uproar about the events of Abu Dhabi one year later.
In an interview with , Lowe - who worked with Hamilt✤on at McLaren and Mercedes - admitted he was “quite happy” Verstappen won the title in 2021.
“Good to see Max securꦡe a championship without any argument,” Lowe saidꦑ. “I was quite happy that he won it last year, actually – which is probably controversial, but F1 is a sport of jeopardy. It always has been.
“No🐷thing’s fair in F1. I’ve been on the wrong side of fairness many, many times and then꧙ [on] the right side of good luck as well.
“That’s the nature, that’s the interest, that’s the excitement of the sport, actually. It’s not a sport where everything should go to plan and always the best person by some analysis should win. That’s why we watch and love the sport and there’s never a r♎ight answer a⛦nyway to anything.
“I did feel sorry for the race director [Masi] actually, I think heꦇ got the wrong end of that really unfairly to me. There was no right or wrong answ𒐪er there. He did his job, he was the ref.”

Lowe also reflected on the new 2022 reg😼ulations and the impact they’ve had on the spo𝔍rt.
“I enjoyed seeing the resurgence of Ferrari, they developed a great car,” he added. “I♌ think it’s a real shame that wasn’t translated in the end into better results. So that was a sort of a good thing and a bad thing, I think. Great to see them with a good car, but not so great that it didn’t score all the wins it could have done.
“Great to see some change in🗹 the world order around the leading three teams. You know, I think noteworthy, completely not to my surprise, that the same three teams are at the top despite the cost cap, because of💟 their embedded excellence in engineering and the tools for engineering great cars, which don’t go away with a cost cap.
“So I think it’s been good to see somꩲe disturbance but in another way, it’s still a shame there’s so much spread down the grid.
“I love jeopardy in racing, so I like to see different things happening and people struggling through but succeeding. It’s been a lot of variety in the season, I know Max w💜on a lot of races but there has, despite that, been a lot💛 of variety. So I think that’s good.

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