Mercedes boss Toto Wolff claims he tried to support former F1 race director Michael Masi throughout🌠 the 2021 season.

Masi’s handling of a late Safety Car in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix season finale allowed Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, who was on fresher tyres, to make a last-lap overtake on 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton to win both the race and the world championship.

Hamilton had dominated the race and appeared on course to claim a record-breaking eighth world title𓄧 until Masi’s incorrect application of the Safety Car rules controversially changed the out🌠come of the championship.

Masi was removed from his role after an FIA inquest determined there was a “human error” on his part despite concluding he had acted in “good faith”꧟.

Wolff, who previously described Masi as a “pathological egomaniac”, revealed he offered the A🔯ustralian advice throughout the season.

“I really tried to speak to Michael and guide him all along the year and speak to him and say, listen, I’ve been 🥃in this sport for a long time, listen to the drivers, don’t always be stubborn in your decision-making, don’t be arrogant,” Wolf꧙f told the podcast.

“I tried that for the good of the sport and obviously also for us as a team, not to be vulnerable to situations that could be totally detrimental. So in that sense, just 👍what happened is inexcusable.

“Now, you could say the empathy should make me realise how he f𝐆eels. I realise how he feels and I know that’s not good, and bad. But he could have thought about it all year long when people, not only me, trꦯied to support [him] in the right way.

“So sometimes you have to just ಌrealise that someone is just doing his own thing or taking his own decisions. For me, I don’t care about it any more.”

Wolff admitted he still feels “angry” about the way the championship concluded and thinks about the co🍷ntro🌼versy “every week”. 

“I mainly think about it because I think Lewis should have deserved to be the greatest of all times wit💟h eight world championship t🙈itles,” he added.

“You can argue all along about that year, I think Max and Lewis were deserving champions. There were instanc🔜es during the year where Max lost some points that he shouldn’t have lost.

"You look at Silverston⛎e, you look at the crash in Monza both of them had. So both deserving champions. But on that particular afternoon in Abu Dhabi, it was unfair.”

Mercedes have Hamilton’✃s car from the 2021 showdown on display in the🍨 entrance to their factory in Brackley.

“It’s a special car because it’s also a car that turned the situation around after Brazil, where we thought the championship is gone, and it was a very good car after the summer,”😼 Wolff explained.

“It is a car that reminds all of us that things could go wrong very ﷽quickly, but things could be right also very quickly. It’s basically how life goes. And that car’s a stark reminder of all the joy and all the pain a situation can bring with it.”