DECRYPTION – The controversy over the safety car in Abu Dhabi, which allowed Max Verstappen to triumph, highlights the limits of the current regulations.
“No, Michael, that’s not fair!” In a sequence worthy of the best thrillers, a raging Toto Wolff vociferates on the radio against Michael Masi, the race director of Formula 1. In the electric night of Abu Dhabi, the boss of Mercedes lives a waking nightmare. The title of world driver’s champion, a goal for which its star, Lewis Hamilton, and his team, have been sweating blood and water for ten months, has undoubtedly just flown away.
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By deciding to call the safety car back to the garage just before the last lap of the final Grand Prix of the season, Masi sets the scene for the explanation at the top between Hamilton and Max Verstappen. A last explosive round, like the Homeric fight that the two pilots fought during 22 races in 2021. But the duel is no longer played on equal terms. When the safety car regime was announced by the crash of the Canadian Nicholas Latifi, the “hunter” Verstappen dived into the pits to put on new tires which will allow him to wear …
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