![]() ![]() “I was confronted with hundreds of messages,” he said. Masi can’t talk about the decision due to non-disclosure agreements with the FIA, the newspaper reported, but he said the following months were hellish. They threatened legal action with Hamilton so disillusioned there were fears he would walk away from the sport. Mercedes and Red Bull had both put pressure on Masi to make decisions which would have helped their driver, with the former left incensed as they believed he followed their rivals’ suggestions. That led to a one-lap shoot-out between the Briton and the Dutchman, who with fresh tyres on his Red Bull car had a huge advantage which he exploited to pick off Hamilton and seal the title. “I was looking at people wondering if they were going to get me.” Masi called in the safety car for the final lap in Abu Dhabi, then controversially allowed the backmarkers between race leader Hamilton and Verstappen to unlap themselves. I thought I was OK until I started looking over my shoulder,” he added. “I still remember walking down the street in London a day or two later. ![]()
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