Masi’s position has been in question since the controversial ending of the Abu Dhabi GP, when the drivers between leader Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen were waved past the safety car deployed after Nicholas Latifi’s crash, and Verstappen used his fresher tyres to win the race and hence the 2021 championship.
An investigation into the events in Abu Dhabi, as well as an analysis of how to improve FIA procedures, is still ongoing.
Among the options under discussion are reducing the workload on the race director – which built up when the late Charlie Whiting took on multiple roles – and having more than one race director, and rotating them during the season.
Plans are also in hand to provide extra remote help to the decision-makers in race control, in a similar fashion to the way teams make use of engineering and strategy support from mission control facilities at their factories.
“He has done a super job,” Bayer told journalist Gerhard Kuntschik when asked about Masi.
“We…
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