Mercedes boss Toto Wolff claims he tried to support former F1꧂ race director Michael Masi throughout the 20🅘21 season.

Masi’s handling of a late Safety Car in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix season finale allowed Red Bull’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen, who was on fresher tyres, to make a last-lap overtake on 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton to win both the race and the world championship.

Hamilton had dominated the race and appeared on course to claim a record-breaking eighth world title until Masi’s i🐟ncorrect application of the Safety Car rules controversially changed the outcome of the championship.

Masi was removed from his role after an FIA inquest deterꦉmined there was a “human error” on his part despite concluding he had acted in “good faith”.

Wolff, who previousl💞y described Masi as a “pathological egomaniac”, re🎉vealed he offered the Australian advice throughout the season.

“I really tried to speak ♍to Michael and guide him all along the year and speak to him and say, listen, I’ve been in this sport for a long time, listen to the drivers, don’t always be stubborn in your decision-making, don’t be arrogant,” Wolff told the podcast.

“I tried that for the good of the sport and obviously also for us as a team, not to be vulnerable to situations th💃at could be totally detrimental. S๊o in that sense, just what happened is inexcusable.

“Now, you could say the empathy shou💝ld make me realise how he feels. I reali𓆏se how he feels and I know that’s not good, and bad. But he could have thought about it all year long when people, not only me, tried to support [him] in the right way.

“So sometimes you 🦂have to just realise that someone is just doing his own thing or taking his own decisions. For me, I don’t care abou🌸t it any more.”

Wolff admitted he still feels⛦ “angry”𒉰 about the way the championship concluded and thinks about the controversy “every week”. 

“I mainly think about it because I think Lewis should have deserved to𝔉 be the greatest of all times with eight world championship titles,” he added.

“Yꦅou can argue all along about that year, I think Max and Lewis were deserving chaꦆmpions. There were instances during the year where Max lost some points that he shouldn’t have lost.

"You look at Silverstone, you look at the crash in Monza both of theꩵm had. So both deserving champions. But on that particular afternoon in Abu Dhabi, it was unfair.”

Mercedes have Hamilton’s car from the 2021 showdown on display in the entrance to their factory in Bra⛄ckley.

“It’s a special car because it’s also a car that turned the situation around after Brazil, where we 🐓thought the championship is gone, and it was a very good car after the summer,” Wolff explained.

“It is a car that reminds all of us that things could go wrong very quickly, but things could be right♓ also ꦡvery quickly. It’s basically how life goes. And that car’s a stark reminder of all the joy and all the pain a situation can bring with it.”