![]() ![]() ![]() Masi made his opinion clear to a seething Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff. Mercedes argued that Masi did not apply the rules correctly by resuming the race for the last lap. ![]() The involvement of the Safety Car set up a final lap in which Verstappen overtook race leader Hamilton to win the race and the title, dashing the Briton’s hopes of a record eighth world crown. The appeal is likely to relate to the way in which the Safety Car rules were applied by Masi at the end of the race following a crash by Williams’ driver Nicholas Latifi. The man in Mercedes’ sights is race director Michael Masi and his controversial decision to withdraw the Safety Car for the final lap. Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes team is expected to appeal after two protests it made against Max Verstappen and Red Bull at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix were rejected by the stewards. ![]()
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