Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton’s Abu Dhabi 2021 drama recalled by Sky Sports a year later: “Mitigating circumstances, no cheats”
A year later at the same location for the 2022 season finale, memories were evoked of the controversial finish where 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen was able to 🦹overtake Hamiltꦡon due to incorrectly applied rules by race director Michael Masi, and pip him to the championship.
Sky’s Brundle reflected: “If the rules played out in full, the race would have finished under the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Safety Car and Lewis would hav🅷e been champion for the eighth time.
“There were mitigating circumstances - but no excuses. We had 39 races in 17 m✃onths. The system was under pressure. There were chances for Mercedes to put fresh tyres on. Max still had to get the overtake done.
“The championship w🌊as won over all of the 2021 races.
“There have been conversations behind the scenes - an urgency to not finish under a Safe💖ty Car or a red flag. It was one of the biggest events in F1 history.
“The bottom line is - it should have fini🤡shed under a Safety Car.
“That championship is not going to change. There🐽 are no asterisks. Lessons can be learned and we can talk about it forever. We will never unravel it.”
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Damon Hill said: “There were no cheats. But we could be excused for feeling cheated w🌃ith an ambiguous finish. Everyone was scratching their heads at what happened. Nothing will change the result.
“ꦿYou can understand people’s anger and Lewis feeling deprived of a title.”
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jenson Button said: “Until the last three minutes of the race Lewis thought he would be 2021 champion.𒈔 That is mentally tough for a dr✨iver. I feel that he has grown as a person - he is a better driver and a better person for it.”
Brundle added: “As I said on the night, ther💞e was no remedy to the problem. The ‘referee’ made a mistake, not Red Bull🥂.
“What has changed? They hꦡave stopped team principals lobbying race control. That has gone. You can’t pull up behind a driver during a Safety Car🍌 restart. That has gone.”
Hill: “If you go through th📖e difficuꦆlt mental adjustment, it takes enormous mental strength.”
Verstappen won the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as well, completing back-to-back championships. Hamilton finished sixth in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 standings, his worst-ever result.
