Lewis🌊 Hamilton insists he is “at peace” with the controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - b♊ut insists he was “robbed”.

The end of Hamilton’s and Mercedes’ glory era and the beginning of Red Bull’s dom🎃inant spell was the final round of th🐽e 2021 F1 season.

Hamilton, aiming for an all-time record eighth championshꦦip, was overtaken on the final lap in Abu Dha🍨bi by Verstappen who hadn’t yet won a title.

The Race Director Michael Masi’s aꦡpplication of the Safety Car rule ultimately allowed Verstappen to nip past Hamilton, and claim the race victory and h🧔is first title.

It remains 🐎one of the most controversial-ever F1 moments.

Masi lost his job at the FIA afterwards, and Red Bull an𝓰d Mercedes’ rivalry stepped up a notch.

“Was I robbed? Obviously,” Hamilton has told .

“I mean, you know the story.

“But I think what was really beautif♐ul in that moment, which I take away from it, was my dad 🌞was with me.

“And we’d gone through this huge roller🐎 coaster of life together, ups and downs.

“And the day that it hurt the most, he was there, and the way he raised me was to always stand up, k✨eep your head high.

“And I obviously went to congratulate Max, and not realising the impact that that would have, but also I was rea🐓lly conscious of, like, there’s a mini-me watching.

“This is the defining moment of my life.

“And I think it really wa❀s. I felt it. I didn’t know how it was going to be ဣperceived.

“I hadn’t, like, visualised it. But I was definitely conscious of: these next 50 metres that I walk is where I fall to th🍌e ground and die – or I rise up.”

Hamilton was asked if he still fixates on that grand pr🌃ix, and he replied: “If I see a clip of it, I still feel it.

“But I’m at peace with it.”

Hamilton has not won an F1 grand prix since then.

Verstappen, meanwhile, is on course for his fourth championship in ꦉa row.

Each driver is at the heart of the driver market ♔which could shake up the 2025 season.

Hamilton will go to Ferrari in hope of finally securin🌌g his eighth title.

Verstappen is being mentio✱ned as his replacement at Mercedes, amid the internal controversy at Red Bull.

Nearly three y🎉ears on from their notorious moment, more chapters are still to be written about the Verstappen-Hamilton rivalry.