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Brundle critical of Wolff’s Abu Dhabi radio messages to Masi

by Fergal Walsh
5 months ago
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Brundle critical of Wolff’s Abu Dhabi radio messages to Masi
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Ex-Formula 1 driver Martin Brundle has hit out at Mercedes boss Toto Wolff for his radio calls to Race Control during the 2021 season finale in Abu Dhabi last month.

In the midst of the controversial Safety Car restart, Wolff’s radio messages to F1’s Race Director Michael Masi were broadcast on the world feed.

Wolff was critical of Masi’s decision to let the cars between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen unlap themselves, before restarting the grand prix on the final lap.

Equipped with fresh tyres, Verstappen overtook Hamilton and claimed his first F1 title.

When asked by Sky Sports F1 if radio calls from team bosses to Race Control need to stop going forward, Brundle said: “One hundred per cent.

“In the first Safety Car incident when Giovinazzi’s Alfa Romeo broke down some way from a service road, we had Toto on the radio to Masi saying, ‘Hey Michael, no Safety Car!’, trying to influence a safety decision.

“[It’s] completely unacceptable and Toto knows that. We can’t have that.

“What used to happen in the Herbie [Blash] and Charlie [Whiting] days is they’d get on the radio to Charlie [and] Herbie would go, ‘He’s busy at the moment, he’ll get back to you’.

“Of course, he didn’t, because Charlie was busy sorting out the mess that was on track and working to understand when the race could be restarted.”

Dialogue between senior team members and Race Control was a new feature added to the world feed in 2021.

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Comments 2

  1. Martin Elliott says:
    5 months ago

    He’s right, well some of it.
    I don’t know what level of communication between ‘the perch’ and RD or even ARD before it became a TV feed. I’m surprised it officially happened even with unofficial ‘firewall’

    I’m even more appalled after a few events, its been continued.

    But Martin, why pick on Toto? Why not Christian’s “I only need ONE lap” which he got!

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    • Dami says:
      5 months ago

      Because Wolff’s demand was specifically safety-related, urging Masi to take no action to ensure everyone was safe. Horner was speaking in a situation where the safety procedures were already in effect and had done the job for which they were designed.

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