The victory of the Red Bull and of Max Verstappen on the Monza circuit, right at Ferrari’s home, it represents the perfect icing on the cake of a championship that the Milton Keynes team and the Dutch driver now have firmly in their hands. Yet the final race, conditioned by the controversial decision to leave the Safety Car on the track – which entered five laps from the end – right up to the checkered flag, left a bad taste in the mouth not only of the Ferrari people but also of the winners themselves. Is Christian Horner that Helmut Markothe two strongmen of the Austrian team, in fact contested the decision of the Race Direction not to resume the race after the stop on the track of Daniel Ricciardo’s McLaren.
The choice was the opposite of what happened last year in Abu Dhabi, in the last GP of the season. On that occasion, the race director of the time, Michael Masi, forced the regulations allowing Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton to compete for the race and the title in one last lap, which ended with the outcome that everyone knows. The leaders of Red Bull, therefore, would have liked the same controversial procedure used ten months ago on the Yas Marina track to be applied to Monza. Horner himself, in fact, declared a Sky Sports F1 that what we saw on the Brianza track goes “Against the principles”Discussed in the past, or that a race must no longer be made to end under the Safety Car regime. According to the English manager, the time to get rid of Daniel Ricciardo’s car would have been “more than enough”.
Helmut Marko also expressed himself on the same line of thinking, who was also disappointed by the way Max Verstappen won the race: “It certainly wasn’t the right decision – said the 79-year-old from Graz a Sky – I think the Safety Car has positioned itself in front of the wrong driver“. Marko also criticized the procedure that involves the slow doubling of all the cars detached by one lap and reiterated how the sporting component must come before partisan interests: “Would we have been at a disadvantage? Yup – He admitted – but we must put sport in the foreground. Obviously as long as there is a tractor on the track it is not possible [far ripartire la gara]but then [i marshal] they have to work faster. There was enough time“.
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