Formula 1’s governing body has said “human error” was responsible for the incorrect application of the rules at the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
But the FIA said in its report on last year’s controversial World Championship finish that race director Michael Masi had acted “in good faith”.
Masi has been ever since removed from his post and restructured F1 race control.
The report from the FIA world motorsport council ruled that the result and the World Championship are “valid and final”.
The report is the final confirmation that Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was the 2021 F1 world champion, not that that was expected to be in doubt in the process.
Released by the FIA 97 days after the race, it found that a number of key mistakes were made leading up to the final lap of the race in which the fate of the world title changed hands from Lewis Hamilton to Verstappen.
He concluded:
- The race director “called the safety car back to pit lane without it having completed an additional lap as required by the Formula 1 sporting regulations”.
- “There could be different interpretations” of the safety car rules in the sporting regulations.
- The decisions made by Masi “likely took into account previous discussions that made clear the preference of F1 stakeholders (FIA, F1, teams and drivers) to finish races under green flag conditions, rather than behind a pace car, when it’s safe to do so. then.
- Human error led to the fact that not all cars could take off the lap. From now on, communication about cars that need to be unfastened will be automated.
Because manual interventions generally carry a higher risk of human error, software has been developed that will, from now on, automate the communication of the list of cars to be unfastened.
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