Formula One bosses have finally confirmed Lewis Hamilton WAS robbed of last year’s world championship.
A long-awaited report into the controversy in Abu Dhabi said that race director Michael Masi, who lost his job in the wake of the dramatic conclusion to the 2021 season, had acted in “good faith” and that the results from the race and the championship are “valid, final and cannot now be changed.” But it did accept that Masi had “called the safety car back into the pit lane without it having completed an additional lap as required by the Formula 1 Sporting Regulations.”
Had the safety car done so, Hamilton would have won a record-breaking eighth world title - not Max Verstappen. But the FIA cited “human error” as a factor in the incorrect application of the rules.
