Audio of a chat between Masi and Red Bull sporting director Jonathan Wheatley was widely circulated on social media on Wednesday, prompting fresh anger from many fans.
In the conversation that is taking place during the late-race safety car, Wheatley says: “Those lapped cars; you don’t need to let them go right the way around and catch up with the back of the pack. You only need to let them go, and then we’ve got a motor race on our hands.”
What has caused unease among many is that Wheatley’s final comment appeared to have set the tone for Masi’s justification of bringing the safety car in early when he was criticised post-race by Mercedes boss Toto Wolff.
Masi replied: “Toto, it’s called a motor race, okay?”
While the radio chatter is not new and had been originally released by F1 in the week after the Abu Dhabi race, it had been missed by many amid the furore of the events at the time.
Interestingly, it was also only made available to the public on December 16, hours after…
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