Lewis Hamilton asked to fire Michael Masi as Mercedes FIA agreement to continue in 2022

The controversial end of the 2021 Formula 1 season that ended with Max Verstappen as the new World Champion is still raging to this day. Mercedes decided not to appeal the decisions of the judges of the Abu Dhabi race, a gesture that was understood as a sign of redemption but that could have a secret pact with the FIA in the background. Even Toto Wolff himself, head of the Mercedes F1 team, has acknowledged that Lewis Hamilton is "disillusioned" with the new direction Formula 1 is taking. Michael Masi would be, in this case, one of the big ones pointed out. The FIA racing chief has suffered the wrath of much of the paddock throughout the season after countless controversial decisions, the last one the not correct application of the safety car rules during the last laps of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that put the drivers' World Championship on a platter to Dutch Max Verstappen. Lewis Hamilton's "disappointment" and Mercedes' anger could soon be relieved. As published by BBC Sports, both are waiting for the FIA to finish studying everything that happened in the last Grand Prix of the 2021 season and make decisions on the matter. According to the British publication Mercedes, Hamilton and the FIA would have reached an agreement that Michael Masi and the FIA's head of single-seater technical affairs, Nikolas Tombazis, would no longer be in their current positions in the 2022 season. Something that fits with Wolff's statements last month, "Mercedes will hold the FIA to account."

• 2022-01-14T21:53:16+00:00
• Duration: 01:44

• LewisHamilton
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• MICHAELMASI
• FIA

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