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It was billed as Formula One’s greatest climax. So F1 gave the world what it wanted. Yet, in doing so, the sport appeared to reverse over the concept of fairness, of sporting justice and a level playing field. It did a wheel spin on the rulebook and decided the title on the need for the promised drama and spectacle. And, watching, we loved it.
This will no doubt stream well on Netflix at some future date. Right now, however, sober reflection on how Max Verstappen came to be 2021’s champion driver is leaving more than a few observers feeling nonplussed, not to mention a little queasy.
Will F1 win new fans with a manufactured finish that is close to incomprehensible outside the four walls of race control, that seems to fly in the face of fair-mindedness?
Max Verstappen (right) won the championship after passing Lewis Hamilton on the final lap
Hamilton looked certain to win the title before a late-race safety car bunched the pack up
Mercedes felt rules weren’t applied regarding lapped cars being allowed to unlap themselves
Was this the first Drive To Survive title, won on what it is believed the audience demands? Michael Masi’s official title is race director, but isn’t he taking the second part of that role too much to heart?
Here was orchestrated action, strings pulled, plot-line and drama almost scripted from the director’s chair, a hasty late rewrite. Whatever the teams and their drivers signed up for this season, it surely wasn’t The Truman Show.
Red Bull were happy on Sunday night, but would be up in arms if this happened to them.
There was a reason that on the balcony of the Paddock Club at turn one of the Abu Dhabi circuit, stood Paul Harris of Monckton Chambers. If Formula One was just about having the fastest car, Mercedes wouldn’t have felt the need to engage the Barrister of the Year for 2021, as awarded by the Litigation Tracker team of The Lawyer.
Max Verstappen celebrates after Mercedes had two different…
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