FIA investigation outcome key to Lewis Hamilton’s F1 future?
The BBC and Sky Sports News have for the 2022 season amid an ongoing inquiry into the hugely contro♌versial conclu꧂sion to last year’s world championship.
Hamilton lost the championship to Max Verstapp𒆙en on the last lap of the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi after🌼 FIA race director Michael Masi failed to apply the correct regulations during a late Safety Car period.
Mercedes dropped its appeal against the result of the race after the FIA announced it was launching a detailed inquiry into the events that unfolded in Abu Dhabi.🌌
The governing body said it would conduct a “detailed analysis and clarification exercise” around the season finale after adm🐼itting it was “tarnishing the image of the championship”.
According to the BBC, Mercedes withdrew its appeal after agreeing a ‘quid pro quo’ with the FIA that would see Masi and head of single-seater technical matters Nikolas Tombazis removed from their positions for the ꦫ2022 season.
Mercedes has reportedly✅ denied that such a deal was made.𓆏
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff described Hamilton as “disillusioned” in the wake of the events of Abu ♏Dhabi and said he could not guarantee the Brito📖n would return to fight for a record-breaking eighth world title this year.
Hamilton has remained silent ever since he conducted an initial post-race intervie🍌w with former McLaren teammate Jenson Button in parc ferme.
Speculation surrounding Hamilton’s future has been rife in the weeks that have followed amid talk the seven-time world champion could take a sabbatical, or decide ♑to walk away from F1 for good.
"It is understood that Mercedes want to see something 💎tangible,” Sky Sports News’ Craig Slater said of the FIA's inve🌠stigation.
“It’s been put to me like this: the longer this drags on then the worse 🎃the Lewis Hamilton situation is, aꦓnd that is from a senior source.”
The recentlyജ-turned 37-year-old is contracted to Mercedes until the end of the 2023 season after signing a fresh two-year contract last year.
Pre-season testing for the 23-race 2022 season - F1’s longest-ever campaign - gets💟 underway on 23 February🍰, ahead of the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix on 18-20 March.
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