Today the FIA award ceremony in Paris at the end of the 2021 racing season. In the Gala scheduled for this evening, the winners of the main automobile championships organized by the Federation will receive the trophies won on the track, but the controversy over the season finale in F1, which crowned Max Verstappen, does not seem to subside. world champion in Abu Dhabi with a race that ended somewhat controversially.
The Federation yesterday issued an official note which certifies the fact that the use of the Safety Car in Yas Marina and, above all, the restart, is a procedure to be analyzed in depth in order not to run into another similar scenario in 2022. Mercedes has time until 20:00. tonight to formalize the appeal against the Commissioners’ Decision, but the house of the three-pointed star seems willing not to pull the trigger which would lead to a confrontation with the Federation. Susie Wolff, wife of Toto, Mercedes team principal, posted a vitriolic comment on the social networks against the epilogue of the championship, her words below.
— Susie Wolff (@Susie_Wolff) December 16, 2021
“On the eve of the last race of the championship I was convinced that I would see a historic race between two teams and two drivers who both deserved to win. This was not the case. What happened is still difficult to understand and left me with a feeling of great bitterness. It’s not because they lost – Max and Red Bull are worthy winners and we knew there was another chance of not winning – but the way Hamilton was robbed leaves me in disbelief. The decision of a person who is part of the organization that sets up the F1 championship has directed the Drivers title, through the use of a rule in a manner never seen before. Rules are rules, they cannot be used according to the whims of an individual at the end of a run. Lewis Hamilton, you have demonstrated incredible integrity and dignity in the face of injustice. You are the greatest of all time. The epilogue of the last laps on Sunday? Everyone knows how things stand, even those who don’t have the courage to admit it. Congratulations to Max and congratulations to all members of the Mercedes F1 team on the record of eight Constructors’ titles won consecutively. I hope that in March next year there will be a governance that puts sporting integrity and fairness at the center so that I can fall in love with F1 again ″.
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