After a controversial finish to the 2021 F1 season, FIA’s race director, Michael Masi, confronted a variety of criticism for not solely mismanaging the final race in Abu Dhabi, however for a number of different errors all through the season. Therefore, Masi was finally faraway from his publish.
Nonetheless, former Williams and Ferrari workforce supervisor Peter Windsor just lately spoke about how the ex-F1 race director would return to the game if he was provided the job once more. Windsor additionally expressed how Michael Masi would do an excellent job if he returns. He mentioned:
“Masi is working in motorsport in Australia once more and he’s doing race course stuff once more. One in all my mates mentioned that if Formulation 1 made him a suggestion, he’d in all probability come again and he’d in all probability do a really, superb job in contrast with the place we’re in the meanwhile.”
Peter Windsor, after all, didn’t defend Michael Masi as he acknowledged the errors made by the previous race director within the 2021 F1 Abu Dhabi GP.
Nonetheless, he forgave Masi for his mistake, saying how everybody could make errors. Windsor acknowledged:
“Clearly, he made an enormous mistake in Abu Dhabi – and all people makes errors – however the groundswell argument is, ‘is it any worse than the place we’re?’ And, if nothing else, he does truly make selections and he’s very organised. I’m certain it’ll by no means occur, as a result of [Mercedes boss] Toto Wolff will in all probability by no means let it occur, and he did make such an enormous mistake you would argue that possibly he ought to by no means come again.”
After Michael Masi was faraway from the publish, the FIA introduced in two new race administrators to handle the races concurrently. Nonetheless, this technique wasn’t the most effective both as we witnessed a number of mishaps from race administrators, although not as extreme as Michael Masi’s mistake in Abu Dhabi.
Former F1 world champion talks about 2021 F1 season finale
Damon Hill, a former F1 world champion, expressed his emotions in direction of the 2021 F1 season finale.
After a nail-biting struggle between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton, each title contenders went into the final race of the season with the identical variety of factors. The ultimate race included every part from truthful wheel-to-wheel battles to main FIA blunders and confusion that performed an enormous half in how the race panned out.
Reminiscing about all this, Damon Hill advised Sky Sports activities:
“I believe it was very damaging. I don’t suppose there have been any cheats on the market, however I believe we may very well be excused for saying we have been cheated out of a transparent, unambiguous end in a final race to resolve a World Championship. That’s how everybody felt, everybody was scratching their head on the finish of that racing asking what simply occurred.”
After all, since Michael Masi was the race director on the time, virtually everybody pointed fingers at him for the errors made by the race management.