Poll: Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2021, Yas Island - Race 22
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Completely agree with Brawn here:
"Ross Brawn didn't know whether to be happy or to be annoyed: "The decision in the last lap is a highlight that cannot be topped. Unfortunately, the protest takes a bit of the shine from this final." The Englishman takes the much criticized race director Masi under protection: "It is not acceptable that the team bosses put Michael under such pressure during the race. Toto Wolff cannot demand that a safety car should not come, and Christian Horner cannot demand that the cars have to lap back. That is at the discretion of the race director. We will stop this contact next year. "
https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de...fia-rennleiter-michael-masi-f1-reagiert-2022/
"Ross Brawn didn't know whether to be happy or to be annoyed: "The decision in the last lap is a highlight that cannot be topped. Unfortunately, the protest takes a bit of the shine from this final." The Englishman takes the much criticized race director Masi under protection: "It is not acceptable that the team bosses put Michael under such pressure during the race. Toto Wolff cannot demand that a safety car should not come, and Christian Horner cannot demand that the cars have to lap back. That is at the discretion of the race director. We will stop this contact next year. "
https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de...fia-rennleiter-michael-masi-f1-reagiert-2022/
It's nothing to do with the drivers.
It was done to manipulate, create drama. Ultimately about viewing figures. Regardless if it was done with good intentions, the optics look terrible.
If it does get more views. Well the director do more of this in the future as he'll have been vindicated.
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Massi soon changed his tune
https://www.motorsportweek.com/2020/10/13/masi-explains-reason-for-late-eifel-gp-safety-car/
https://www.motorsportweek.com/2020/10/13/masi-explains-reason-for-late-eifel-gp-safety-car/
Hoping Norris or Russell can do well next season, hoping the new regs shake it up a bit and we dont have to see this type of thing again.
What a shame for both drivers is all I keep thinking, a superb season like that did not deserve that finish and all of this.
Who knows maybe if they had just left the lapped cars there Max may have won anyway....or binned both of them trying lol. Masi robbed us of finding that out, not because he was bribed but probably because he was put through insane amounts of pressure by both teams all through the GP.
What a shame for both drivers is all I keep thinking, a superb season like that did not deserve that finish and all of this.
Who knows maybe if they had just left the lapped cars there Max may have won anyway....or binned both of them trying lol. Masi robbed us of finding that out, not because he was bribed but probably because he was put through insane amounts of pressure by both teams all through the GP.
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Massi soon changed his tune
https://www.motorsportweek.com/2020/10/13/masi-explains-reason-for-late-eifel-gp-safety-car/
Hasn’t aged well to say the least
Shocking race ending.This sums it up well for me. I have sympathy for Lewis, but had the ball been on the other foot you would have seen identical behaviour (protests/counter-protests) from both teams - just switched around.
- Oliver Brown, Chief Sports Writer, The Telegraph.
Brilliant , sounds like Masi is staying put then
More incompetence and inconsistent from race control in 2022 
The chaperoning of the race director by team bosses needs to stop for sure though , Christian asked for just one lap and got what he wanted
This is absolutely the correct response from Brawn - not surprising from a good leader.
Yep, as irritating as it would have been, and unlucky to Lewis, it would have been within the rules. We know a sfaety car can upend things.
However, Mercedes made the strategy call for Lewis based on the known rules. It was incredibly unlikely that the track could be cleared and all the cars could unlap themselves in time OR that Max had enough time to pass 5 backmarkers in ~1 lap to get close enough to overtake Lewis. THAT is what Merc based their decision on and they were correct.
Suddenly the whole way a safety car works got thrown out of the window though, meaning that Merc had no way of making a reasonable strategy call at the time the safety car was called out.
A lot of that is clear bull **** though. A - he only had more wins due to the ridiculousness of Masi on that last lap yesterday B. It isn't "superlative racecraft" to overtake a fairly equally powered car on 40 lap old hards when you have brand new super softs. The braking and traction differences are massive - any driver on the grid (and possibly in any car) could have done it.
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I think this is why some Lewis fans are annoyed. Lewis would have beaten Max to the title despite all the wins, podiums, poles and laps led... if it wasn't for that decision.
Oh well. The more I think about it, the more ridiculous it seems.
Massi soon changed his tune
https://www.motorsportweek.com/2020/10/13/masi-explains-reason-for-late-eifel-gp-safety-car/
Shows that he was well aware of the rules.
Even more damning.
I don’t think anyone is saying Max didn’t deserve this title!!!
What is really worrying is the manner he won it being influenced by the Race Director not following the rule book.
I don’t want the result to change now but, I hope Mercedes push for a reform of the rules, stewardship and race directorship.
What is really worrying is the manner he won it being influenced by the Race Director not following the rule book.
I don’t want the result to change now but, I hope Mercedes push for a reform of the rules, stewardship and race directorship.
Give it up Jono8, it's over, are you not getting tired of repeating yourself in every post?
Max is the WDC 2021, that decision wont be overturned now.
Yes this is what needs to be addressed, it's just damning and quite shocking that many of the users in this forum seem to think this has happened all of a sudden when in fact this has been status quo for many many years.
No one is forcing you to take part or read the posts.
i imagine you don't like reading the posts, because you don't like the truth.
It hasn't been the 'status quo' for many years though has it? This is a completely disingenuous viewpoint.
What has been the 'status quo' is that they struggle to make consistent decisions between similar incidents from one race to the next and often leave teams feeling bitter about decisions that seemingly went the opposite way only a week or two beforehand. These are subjective decisions, normally from the stewards (but also Masi this year deciding what he will or won't refer to them) that can be argued one way or another and so will naturally suffer from this to some degree.
What absolutely hasn't been the 'status quo' is well established and routinely implemented rules being casually cast aside so the race director can make up his own rules on the spot (especially at such a critical juncture) - unless you can point to other examples of that happening routinely enough to be considered the status quo?
Takes something like this to bring it to the top.
It's why I only watch f1 for entertainment now. I prefer to watch highlights. It's not a fair sport at all. This year was a damn good show!
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