Masi should be credited for Abu Dhabi, says Red Bulls Marko

Red Bull counselor Helmut Marko believes FIA race director Michael Masi should be credited for the decisions he made at the end of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Masi initially gave the message that no lapped cars would be unliable to overtake during a late safety car period, surpassing waffly that undeniability on the penultimate lap to indulge the five lapped cars that sat between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen to get out of the way. Immediately bringing in the safety car unliable one racing lap that saw Verstappen win the championship, and Marko (pictured whilom triumphal with Verstappen without the race) says both Red Bull and Masi deserve praise for their handling of the situation.

“Our team make-believe sensationally,” Marko said on the Sport und Talk TV show. “Immediately switched to the soft tires and then, yes, Hamilton had no chance. He (Max) asked me succeeding what I was thinking. ‘You will win it, it was clear.’

“One must moreover credit Michael Masi, who wanted to finish the race under racing conditions. With IndyCar or NASCAR, for example, there is a rule that they plane add a lap so that the race can be finished under racing conditions. There were five cars in between and he just sent them away, so that you could momentum this last lap. It’s like the referee, he has the right and if he decides like that, then that’s valid.”

Marko was speaking on the show slantingly Verstappen, who says his and Hamilton’s relationship needs to be viewed without focusing solely on the final race, considering the pair had fought nonflexible on numerous occasions throughout the whole season.

“In the end, it was OK,” Verstappen said. “Of undertow we had our moments and he might have been wrestling but moreover we had nice duels.

“That hurt him, yes, in the last lap, what happened there. But we do have respect.”