FIA The FIA admits the controversy at the Abu Dhabi GP is “tarnishing the image of the Championship”

[Il_leone]

You should see the on facebook and every other day Red Bull coming out with a different theory every day " It was not us who made Masi lose his job"

Jonathan Wheatley seems awfully quiet

 

[cider_and_toast]

everyone has been brainwashed in to thinking we must be told, and not take any personal responsibility or interpret anything.

By staggering coincidence this is the very discussion I had with someone on a training course we are developing at work.

We are trying to train the right behaviours and ensure people take responsibility.

The usual solution is to throw another rule at something or ban it outright.

 

[cider_and_toast]

This is the basis of English Common Law, where precedence makes the rule. What he did was to throw away years of accepted wisdom for the sake of "the show".

In modern politics this is known as "Bercow Syndrome"

 

[F1Brits_90]

Jonathan Wheatley seems awfully quiet

if he ever opens his mouth again it will be too soon

 

[GeoffP]

if he ever opens his mouth again it will be too soon

That’s a shame, he speaks highly of you

 

[The Pits]

Jonathon Wheatley was fairly pleasant to me. he was a little dull though. He went in to a lot of details about heave dampers.

 

[Brogan]

The report is out.

2021 F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Report to the World Motor Sport Council - 19 March 2022

2021 F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Report to the WMSC - 19 March 2022

www.fia.com

Don't waste your time reading it - it's 7 pages of nothing.

 

[GeoffP]

Utter

 

[F1Brits_90]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1505174844144590853

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1505178066116562948

 

[F1Brits_90]

admittedly there is nothing new. on that report that surprised anyone. or me, alot of i said is in that report. Micheal masi made human error & his job couldnt continue afterwards.

how that guilt doesnt fall upon 1 man. it was a group failure & horner, wheatley, Mercedes spokesman has to shoulder the blame with masi

rewatching abu dhabi through that feature they did on skyf1. as soon as Masi said " christian give me a minute" & Christian wouldnt shut up the writing was on the wall.

 

[Tuscan1969]

It’s a total whitewash as expected.

prefference for green flag- of course no one wants an accident or a procession but that’s not that same as saying “throw the rules out of the window if we do need a safety car just so we get a wee green light somewhere on camera!”

results are final - that’s code to say “stop giving us negative publicity. We will take a dim view of it and the scrutineers will come down heavily at every race if you don’t just shut up and go away.”

human error - more code for it was not us, it was not premeditated so don’t even think about suing!

radio coms - code for you all caused it too you know….spread the blame as shit sticks to everyone.

different analysis - a tiny attempt to say yeah we could have written clearer rules…. But it does not explain why Masi interpreted them many times before but only on this one occasion decided to try a new freestyle rule Completely at odds with his own explanation only a year before.

 

[Il_leone]

They were not going to say anything else having already removed Masi were they? Nor would they reverse the results and declare it on lap 57 but race void which Verstappen would still be world champion by the virtue of Masi awarding him the win for doing 2 parade laps at Spa

 

[F1Brits_90]

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says Michael Masi was a 'liability' for F1 who disrespected drivers

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has accused former Formula 1 race director Michael Masi of

www.skysports.com

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1513462179550404608

 

[Il_leone]

you can say he got no protection from Jean Todt but really after the shambles of Spa he made a bigger cock up and really did not show enough balls in Interlagos and Jeddah

 

[cider_and_toast]

Having got fed up with his new role as "Head of staying out of the way and not saying anything to rock the boat" Michael Masi has now left the FIA.

Former F1 race director Masi leaves FIA

Former Formula 1 race director Michael Masi formally leaves motorsport's governing body, the FIA, seven months after presiding over last year's controversial Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Il_leone]

Having got fed up with his new role as "Head of staying out of the way and not saying anything to rock the boat" Michael Masi has now left the FIA.

Former F1 race director Masi leaves FIA

Former Formula 1 race director Michael Masi formally leaves motorsport's governing body, the FIA, seven months after presiding over last year's controversial Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

www.bbc.co.uk

No one is shedding a tear although the current system is pi$$ing the drivers off. We've yet to get a championship decision moment let's see who blow their top when it does

 

[F1Brits_90]

i still have a sadness about Micheal Masi & Abu Dhabi. i keep thinking would red bull & mercedes pitwall interrupt Charlie Whiting in similar circumstances had he still been alive

for all the mistakes he made. i still feel he was chewed up & spat out by the piranha club

 

[Il_leone]

i still have a sadness about Micheal Masi & Abu Dhabi. i keep thinking would red bull & mercedes pitwall interrupt Charlie Whiting in similar circumstances had he still been alive

for all the mistakes he made. i still feel he was chewed up & spat out by the piranha club

Yes it was always going to be him the moment he made that lapped car error on lap 57.it is the equivalent of footballers surrounding the referee

There was no way back for him I felt him and the stewards just got too scared in the end