Toto Wolff wanted Jean Todt's intervention during Abu Dhabi 2021: “To tell the stewards…”

Toto Wolff wished ex-FIA president Jean Todt “got involved” during the climax of the controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Wolff wanted Todt's intervention during Abu Dhabi 2021: “To tell the stewards…”

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen defeated 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton to the title on the final lap of the 2021, benefitting from a timely 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Safety Car period.

Verstappen’s chances were aided by race director Michael Masi’s ♋incꦰorrect application of the Safety Car rules.

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What happened led to widespread fallout, with Mercedes protesting the d💃ecision after the race.

Nothing came of it with Mercedes withdraw🌸ing their appeal and Verstappen securing his fi♕rst world title.

Todt, who was FIA president at the time, refওused to 🐲interfere, leaving it down to the stewards to make a decision.

Todt said earlier this year: "I didn🌳't do an🌠ything, it's not the role of the president of the FIA.

“Referee💧s must be autonomous. Have you ever heard [FIFA president Gianni] Infantino say ‘Here there was a penalty, a🍸nd here there was not’.

“In the documentary [‘The Method’ on French TV] yo🌱u can see that I'm watching that race in the country h🧜ouse with the crew. 

“Horner and Wolff call me and to them I reply: 𝄹‘I can't interfere, it's the responsibility of the stewards and the race director.’”

While Wolff i🍨s now “at peace” with what happened, he wishes Todt intervened.

"For us it was a catastrophic set of circumstances, but it was the making of one man - there is no big conspiracy theory behind it," Wolff told ESPN

Toto Wolff (GER), Mercedes AMG F1 Shareholder and Executive Director Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 5, Miami Grand Prix,
Toto Wolff (GER), Mercedes AMG F1 Shareholder and Executive Director Formula 1 World…

"Would I have wished that Jean Todt got involved rather than being filming for his documentary? Yes. At least to tell the stewards to look at it the ri▨ght way.

"But would it have made a difference? I don't know. It was the making of one man, this was a championship between two drivers and two teams, both had merite📖d to win and on the day the outcome was different because one guy just lost the plot.

"But I am at peace with it now."

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