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FIA president announces different race director for 2023

The 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix shocked the world, as a controversial safety car procedure by then race director Michael Masi allowed Max Verstappen to snatch the drivers’ championship away from Lewis Hamilton, despite having trailed the Brit for the entire race. A late safety car triggered by Nicholas Latifi’s crash made the final race of the season extremely likely, however Masi allowed only the lapped cars between Hamilton and Verstappen to unlap themselves, leaving time for a single racing lap. As Verstappen had pitted for soft tyres at the start of the safety car, passing Hamilton on old hards was a simple task and the outcry from F1 fans following the Grand Prix saw Masi sacked as...
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