Earlier, the FIA officially dismissed Michael Massy as F1 race director and would alternate between WEC race director Eduardo Freitas and former DTM race director Niels Wittich as F1 race director for the new season. Subsequently, F1 seven-time champion Hamilton also officially appeared at the May Ben new car conference, and drove the new car W13 to participate in the test. The huge controversy about last season's Abu Dhabi station has come to an end with the dismissal of Marcy and the official return of Hamilton.
For Marci's dismissal, Red Bull Racing head Horner openly spoke out for him in a recent interview with the media, and there was nothing wrong with supporting the former F1 race director. The reason why the FIA asked Michael Massy to leave the position of F1 race director was forced by huge public pressure from the outside world.
Speaking about Marcy's removal as F1 race director, Horner said: "I think it's cruel. He was in a very tough position last year. Too much external pressure to remove him. But actually he didn't do anything wrong on the rules. ”
If you look at it from a Red Bull Racing perspective, there really isn't anything wrong with Michael Massey's decision on the last lap of Abu Dhabi. After all, it was Marci's "weird operation" that made Little Verstappen Jr. and made the Dutchman the world champion of The New Branch. Hamilton's eighth-seat driver's World Championship trophy, which was already within reach, flew away.
In addition to supporting Massey without mistake, Horner also said in an interview that the main reason why Hamilton lost to Vistapan Jr. was that the Mayben team itself made mistakes. Hamilton wanted to pit stop, but the team told him to stay on the track. However, this is not the case, with the last 5 laps left in that race, Hamilton is already 12 seconds ahead of Verstappen Jr. on the track, and the drivers' championship can be said to be nine out of ten. But at this time, Because the car was out of control, Latifi crashed straight into the fence and even the front wheel caught fire, and the race was launched to send a safety car, while Hamilton had just passed the maintenance area, and Vistapan Jr. grabbed the meeting and decisively entered the station to change into a soft tire.
Even if the Meben team did not arrange Hamilton's pit stop, it didn't really matter much. Hamilton lost the world championship, the main reason is that Marcy suddenly issued a command on the last lap, only arranged in front of the little Verstappen vehicle, the snare car completed the unwinding, and let the safety car return to the maintenance area. In this way, when there were still some untied vehicles on the track, led by no safety car, and had not yet completed the re-formation, the race was restarted in the consternation of everyone.
After seeing Horner's interview again, many fans were even more ruthlessly ridiculed, "Horner really has to sell cheaply", "Marcy just listened to your bullshit opinion at the time, and hurt himself to lay off"...