LATEST Update On Michael Masi Saga

The FIA is conducting an investigation into the events of the season finale at Abu Dhabi last year. There has already been speculation that FIA Race Director Michael Masi may be sacked from his role. FIA's new head of single-seaters, Peter Bayer, has offered some hints regarding this while also explaining why Max Verstappen would have been crowned champion even if Mercedes' protest had been successful while speaking to Austrian journalist Gerhard Kuntschik as quoted by the BBC

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FIA Has Informed Michael Masi He Could Be Replaced

Peter Bayer, who has been asked to review and optimise the organisation of the FIA F1 structure for the 2022 season by FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem started off by confirming that Masi could lose his job

"Michael did a super job in many ways. We told him that"

"But also that there is a possibility there could be a new race director"

He then gave his opinion on team officials lobbying with race direction in 2021

"That was simply too much. These roles will be divided between several people. This reduces the burden on the race director"

He then gave an update on the possible changes to the safety car rules that are being discussed

"If neutralisation is necessary in the last two laps of the race, the lap counting ends and the laps are added at the end of the safety car phase. This could cause a fuel problem in F1, which is why it is being looked at more closely"

"We also asked the teams if their requirement not to finish a race under safety car was still relevant, to which they all agreed"

He further confirmed that team managers will still be able to contact race direction but with a few changes

"The team managers will still be able to - they have to be able to ask questions. We want to build in a buffer with an employee who accepts these requests. In the future, the race director will be able to concentrate on his task and will no longer be distracted"

He then turned his attention to the protest launched by Mercedes in the aftermath of the Abu Dhabi GP

"Had the Mercedes protest gone to the Court of Appeal, after being rejected by the stewards, what would have happened? I think the judges would have said: 'It's different in the regulations, he decided that way, so we could just void the result"

"But even then - if it were cancelled - Max Verstappen would have been world champion"

He signed off by hoping to improve things

"The situation was far from perfect and that's why we're working on it. It's also about having respect for the race director. My job is to look ahead, how can we improve things?"
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Mercedes driver George Russell doesn’t think “a driver gets quicker. They do get better, more consistent and probably what has allowed me to do that is having a better understanding of the technical side” [GPFans]

“What does it take to get the tyres in the right window to start a lap?"

“If you go banzai into turn one and the tyres are slightly too cold, your lap's gone. So [it is about] understanding these limitations”

Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has confirmed that “there will be talks with Max [regarding extending his contract beyond 2023] in the coming weeks” [Autorevue]

“With Max we are already almost at the limit in terms of salary”

“I don’t think Max would leave us. Because of what happened at Silverstone, something has snapped in the minds of Max and Jos. He does not want to change teams at all”

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has stated that “if Ferrari will come out with the fastest car and crush us all in the first race, you can certainly say that we have suffered from the intense title battle” [Motorsport]

“Or maybe Haas suddenly comes out with a rocket”

Ferrari’s sporting director Laurent Mekies suggested that “there is less freedom definitely [in the 2022 regulations]” [F1i]

“We are all excited, because it’s going to be completely different compared to last year. But how different will the cars be from each other? We will see”

“The first go at it, we may see enough difference but then I think the question we all need to ask ourselves is once six months have passed – and more importantly, once one year has passed – once you have redone your car for 2023, will we all turn out to have exactly the same?”

Haas driver Mick Schumacher has divulged that “Yeah definitely, [Lewis Hamilton’s] always been very open to giving advice to help me in the position I was in” [Crash]

"Those conversations are obviously private. Some of it is related to racing but most of it is just on a friendly basis”
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