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Wolff says Hamilton wasn’t cheated out of 2021 championship
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has said he doesn’t think Sir Lewis Hamilton was cheated out of the 2021 F1 World Championship in Abu Dhabi. Instead, he believes an inconsistent decision by race director Michael Masi regarding the late Safety Car restart “took the title away from Lewis.” Specifically, after Nicholas Latifi brought out the Safety Car following a crash in sector three, Masi opted to allow the five lapped cars between Hamilton and Max Verstappen to un-lap themselves. This meant that Verstappen was directly behind the seven-time world champion for the final lap, on a fresh set of soft tyres (while Hamilton was on worn hard tyres.) This allowed the Dutchman to overtake...
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