Former Haas boss Guenther Steiner believes 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton would be an eight-time F1 world cham🔯pion had the late Charlieꦐ Whiting still been the FIA’s race director.

Hamilton had been leading the season-ending and title-deciding 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and was on course to claim a record eighth world championship before then FIA race dir✤ector Michael Masi inc🐻orrectly handled a Safety Car restart to force a final lap shootout.

That opened the door for Red Bull’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen, who had 𒀰pitted for fresh soft tyres, to dramatically overtake Hamilton, on aged hards, on the last lap to snatch both the race victory and his maiden drivers’ crown.

In his second book ‘Unfiltere𒁃d’, which will be released later this month, Steiner described the Abu Dhabi finale as a “s*** show of bibli🍌cal proportions”, adding F1 would have avoided controversy had Whiting, who died in 2019, still been alive. 

“Wherever your loyalties lie with that one (and 🐟yes, I agree, i🃏t was amazing entertainment), from a regulations point of view it was a shit show of biblical proportions,” he wrote.

“Regardles𒅌s of what decision Charlie Whiting migh🐻t have made in Michael Masi’s position, there would have been far less controversy and embarrassment.

“Oh, fok it. We all know what Charliꦜe would have done. Had he been at the helm Lewis would now be an eight-time world champion.”

Masi was removed as F1’s ra🐷ce director after an inquiry by the FIA found “human error” to be responsible for the failure to apply the correct rules in the 202ও1 title decider.

Earlier 💦this ye♏ar, Hamilton opened up about the controversy in an interview with GQ Magazine, insisting he is now “at peace” with the outcome.

“Was I robbed? Obviously," Hamilton said. "I mean, y♌ou know the story.”

Asked if he stil🐠l thinks about the race, the 39-year-old Briton said: "If I 𝓡see a clip of it, I still feel it, but I'm at peace with it."