News Details

Brundle slams ‘totally unacceptable' lobbying of Masi by team principals

F1 commentator Martin Brundle has slammed the 'totally unacceptable' lobbying of race director Michael Masi by team principals following the controversy-packed 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Masi just wrapped up his third season as Formula 1's race director and safety delegate under much scrutiny after the controversial end to the season finale, which saw Max Verstappen snatch the 2021 World Championship from Sir Lewis Hamilton. Specifically, Masi's handling of the Safety Car restart (particularly, whether or not lapped cars should have been allowed to un-lap themselves) played a larger-than-expected role in the title decider on Sunday.  Brundle believes Masi is having trouble with his role...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

F1 must cut team lobbying of "referee" -...

Former F1 world champion Nico Rosberg has called for a clampdown of team...
4y ago from GPFans.com

FIA to outlaw in-race lobbying from teams

Ross Brawn has revealed that in the wake of Sunday's Grand Prix, teams...
4y ago from Pitpass.com

Alonso slams ‘too soft' Masi over qualy traffic

Fernando Alonso has criticised race director Michael Masi for being...
4y ago from PlanetF1.com

FIA race director Masi has "too much on his...

Martin Brundle has called for Michael Masi to be given "support"...
4y ago from GPFans.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Paddock optimism for IndyCar’s new independent...

Drivers in the NTT IndyCar Series are largely happy to see the series’...

IndyCar grows international broadcast offerings for...

The NTT IndyCar Series has announced that its already extensive global...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Elfyn Evans wins Swedish showdown

Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin clinched victory on Rally Sweden which ended...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

70m-plus-player bid prepared which threatens to derail...

Arsenal could reportedly be facing a very real threat to their hopes of...
8h ago from CaughtOffside.com

'It's more important for Arsenal' | Soccer Saturday...

Tim Sherwood and Clinton Morrison look ahead to the North London derby and...
8h ago from SkySports.com

Premier League club exploring deal to sign 19-year-old...

Nottingham Forest are reportedly eyeing Arsenal's young goalkeeper Tommy...
11h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Talks held: Arsenal step up efforts to beat Man Utd to...

Arsenal have reportedly held initial talks over a potential transfer move...
12h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.