Latifi was responsible for causing the controversial Safety ♛Car period at the end of last year’s race at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

The Canadian’s crash resulted in the FIA’s mishandling of the Saf♒ety Car and thus ♔cost Lewis Hamilton a record-breaking eighth world title.

As a result, Latifi was abused on social media for the role he played in Abu Dhabi, despite the crash bein🦋g 💎unintentional.

Latifi continues to race with Williams in 2022 but has struggled🐼 cons🅷iderably.

He has been comprehensivelജy out-performed by teammate Alex Albon and was beaten by Nyck de Vries in h🍎is one outing for the team at the Italian Grand Prix.

“We had to keep giving him the confidence. We said that there was nothing wrong,” Capito told the High Performance Podcast. “Everything was fine, but it was very difficult up until t🀅hen because it was the end of the sea🥂son.

“He was not around here every single day and also we didn’t interfere too much as we knew wh🙈at was happening, we kღnew what was going on.

“He switched h🤡is social media off but if we would have interfered too much, I think we would have made the situatio🎶n worse.

“That’s something everybody has to ꦬget over on their own. He was fully aware that he had our backing, that we were absolutely convinced he didn’t do anything wrong.”

Latifi is the only driver on the grid to not have scored a single poiꦑnt in 2022.

“The crash, of course, it shoꦡuldn’t have happened but if you’re racin💖g then crashes can happen,” Capito added. “And we never blame a driver for that, it’s possible to crash. Otherwise, you have to stay at home if you don’t want to crash.

“I think that was also a part of why it took him quite a while in thಌe season to find his competitiveness. I’m sure it affected his driving after that. It would have affected my driving a lot, I am absolutely convince🧜d of this.

“So I can understand that and tꩲhis is why we gave him the confidence and supported him all season and we knew he would c💦ome back.”