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Luck needed to fight for seven or eight title – Verstappen

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Luck has been massively helped Max Verstappen more than his talent in the 2021 F1 finale at Abu Dhabi to secure his first F1 world championship. The final stint safety car incident has been helped him to overtook Lewis Hamilton in the last lap, this dramatic incident still making lots of speculations over the Formula 1 world championship integrity.

Reigning Formula One world champion Verstappen is not certainly expecting to win again.

When asked about Hamilton’s tally of seven F1 world titles, the Max told CarNext: “You need a bit of luck to fight for that.

“You need a very dominant team as well. You don’t always have that luck or you’re not in that era. Sometimes it doesn’t happen.

“For me, I always wanted to win one and see where you go from there. Everything that comes now is a bonus but that doesn’t mean that if I lose a race… I will still be upset, but maybe a few minutes after I will say ‘it’s ok’.” Dutchman added.

Red Bull F1 team Principal Christian Horner responded to suggestions that the way last year’s extreme championship fight ended in Abu Dhabi had brought into question whether the Max fully deserves to be called world champion.

“Dietrich (Mateschitz) felt Max was very deserving,” Horner insisted. “He was very proud of what he’d done and what the team had achieved.”

“There was so much controversy but also so much bad luck that these things tend to balance themselves out,” Horner said.

“Yes, we got a little bit lucky with the safety car at the end of the race, but so much bad luck had gone against us throughout the season.

“I think Max led more than 50 percent of the laps, more than every other driver combined. He had more pole positions, more race wins, and for me he was totally deserving.”

Hamilton versus Verstappen, Mercedes versus Red Bull battle is expected to resume with the brand-new technical rules this year. Simultaneously, however, the tension between Wolff and Horner is likely to shortly resume.

“When we fought Fernando Alonso for the world championship, Stefano Domenicali was Ferrari team boss and at that time, the competition was on a – shall we say – gentleman’s level,” said Horner.

“But Toto plays it differently. He’s a different kind of animal.” Horner added.’

Also, certain worries that Red Bull spent too much time focusing on their 2021 car with last year’s test driver Alex Albon saying at one point they “stopped” working on the 2022 F1 car.

Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko insists that never happened.

“Albon’s statements were misinterpreted,” Marko told F1Insider.

“All I can say is that we want to defend Max Verstappen’s title and are very well positioned to do so. We had two different development programs running in 2021. Both worked.”

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Masi out of organisation chart, FIA ‘set deadline for Abu Dhabi investigation’

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FIA Formula 1 Race Director Michael Masi has been utterly criticised following his 2021 F1 final lap decisions, which was decided the driver’s championship. Masi’s strange safety car call benefitted to Max Verstappen who beaten Lewis Hamilton to F1 title.

Meanwhile, the new FIA Organisation Chart has been released for the month of January 2022, and Masi is absent on the list under the single-seater section, this is first organisation chart after newly elected FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem, who replaced Jean Todt.

Initially Mercedes protested the results following the 2021 F1 season finale Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Silver Arrows withdrew its appeal after the FIA dedicated to launching an “analysis and clarification exercise”.

Also, a ‘senior source’ said that Mercedes had a deal agreeing to drop their appeal as long as Masi and Nikolas Tombazis, the FIA’s head of single-seater technical matters, were fired.

Masi has served as the race director for F1 since March 2019 when predecessor Charlie Whiting died just days before that year’s F1 season was due to start.

Recently Sky sports reported that, FIA confirms that Abu Dhabi Grand Prix investigation will complete in early February. Even as Mercedes still claiming that Masi contravened FIA regulations in doing so. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff expressed that Hamilton being “disillusioned” after he was “robbed” of a record-breaking eighth title. The Seven-time F1 world champion has not communicated publicly or on social media in a month.

Sky Sports F1 reporter Slater said that: “They (Mercedes) want to find out what the FIA decide should be the fall-out from what went on over those final laps in Abu Dhabi where, as far as they are concerned, Lewis Hamilton lost an eighth World title because of a misreading of the rules, chiefly by race director Michael Masi.

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“I can report that three weeks is how long the FIA have set themselves to deal with this matter. Work only began in earnest on it on Monday [January 10], that’s to say this FIA commission started to interview those involved.

“This is going to go on. The FIA have told me they will not be dragging this out. It was a concern of Mercedes that it would take so long that it would jeopardise Lewis Hamilton’s pre-season, if he didn’t have these findings well in advance and could take a decision about 2022.

“They also say to me that the [internal] investigation will be thorough, objective and transparent as well. This should be done by February 3rd, at which point the FIA have a [World] Motor Sport Council meeting and hopefully they expect to announce those findings by then.”

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Hamilton’s childhood babysitter shares delightful memories of the f1 legend

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Sir Lewis Hamilton, the most successful driver in F1 history, celebrating his 37th birthday today. The Brit continues the silents on his social media following the season ending dramatic Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, who lost record breaking eighth championship title.

Hamilton’s babysitter Bruce Harris has shares photos and memories of his childhood nature. Harris used to live in Stevenage while Hamilton was toddler.

‘I remember when I first saw him he was such a chubby boy with really frizzy Afro hair. Whenever we went out with him people always used to comment on it.

‘He used to absolutely look to the neighbours’ theme tune. Where ever he was in the house he would just run to the TV and start dancing in front of it. He just loved it.

‘He was good as gold to look after and I can never remember him crying. He wasn’t a fussy boy either and he’d eat anything you put in front of him and always seemed happy.

Hamilton’s childhood babysitter shares delightful memories of the f1 legend

‘At that time we had a whippet-cross called Ben and they were always playing together in the garden. It was a lovely time we spent with him and I’m glad the way he’s turned out and we both wish him all the best for the future.’

One of the pictures shared by Harris is currently the F1 driver’s Instagram profile picture, which is a suggestion that the pair are still in touch with each other all these years later.

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Hamilton set to co-star with Brad Pitt in Hollywood movie

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Many trusted news sources reported that, seven-time F1 world champion Sir Lewis Hamilton might soon turn into an actor in a Hollywood F1 movie co-starring with Brad Pitt.

According to entertainment website Deadline – Apple TV is in exclusive negotiations and will close the first big film package of the new year. That’s the highly competitive race to acquire an untitled pitch package that will have Brad Pitt playing a racer who comes out of retirement to mentor a younger driver and take his final stab at glory on the track as the younger driver’s teammate.

“We hear that British Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton is involved in some capacity”. In the latest update, however, which contains the details of the plot as described above, there is no mention of the seven-time former World Champion. Deadline added.

The report also states that F1 commercial rights holders Liberty Media is not involved in the film. However, what we know is that the approximate budget is $140 million, which interestingly is the budget cap for F1 teams.

It’s not the first time Hamilton has dabbled in Hollywood; the 36-year-old made cameo appearances in Cars 2 in 2011 and Cars 3 in 2017, as well as appearing in Zoolander 2. Hamilton has also appeared in video games, including Officer Carl Hamilton in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Cars 2 the video game.

Following the huge success of the Netflix’s ‘Drive to Survive’ series, Hollywood showing more interest, and they confirm that the series return for a fourth season later this year on the streaming platform, with installments expected to be released in late February or early March based on past release dates.

“From my side as a driver, I don’t like being part of it,” World Champion Max Verstappen said earlier this year, according to the Associated Press.

“They made up a few rivalries that don’t exist. So I decided not to be a part of it and didn’t give any more interviews after that because you can’t show anything.” the Dutchman added.

Lando Norris of McLaren, on the other hand, defended the show, saying, “I think it’s a cool thing.”

“After watching ‘Drive,’ a lot of people in America are now interested in Formula One.”

“News from the Brinkwire.”

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SAUDI GRAND PRIX

Date Session Time
FRI DEC 03 FP1 16:30 - 17:30
FRI DEC 03 FP2 20:00 - 21:00
SAT DEC 04 FP3 17:00 - 18:00
SAT DEC 04 QUALI 20:00 - 21:00
SUN DEC 05 RACE 20:30 - 23:30

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