If for Lewis Hamilton the Abu Dhabi final represents an open wound, for Max Verstappen remains a beautiful page of his career. A page written with the help of luck (Nicholas Latifi’s accident) and the collaboration of Michael Masi, who for his interpretation of the regulations was in fact removed from the position of race director of Formula 1.
Verstappen knows the risk of a ‘stained’ victory there is. And he admitted that he understood Hamilton: he would probably have reacted the same way instead of him. But also underlined how the events in Abu Dhabi cannot and should not cancel an extraordinary season: “Yup, if you look at how things went in Abu Dhabi I can understand Lewis’ disappointment. But as I said, you have to watch the whole season. You don’t earn a title based on just one race. I think I deserved the World Cupabsolutely“, He told al De Telegraaf. “There may be people who only watched the last Grand Prix and they may think he was lucky. But to normal things the championship would have gone to me anyway. I lost 50 points between Silverstone and Baku alone. We got to the last race for that reason alone“.
The world champion, fresh from the renewal of staggering figures with Red Bull, added how the rumors related to how he won the title do not haunt him at all: “Everyone can say and think what they want. But if you know me well, you know I don’t care. At the end of the day, it has been a crazy and epic Formula 1 season. Mercedes will try to belittle this result, but from our point of view the sensations are still beautiful, I can assure you. That Sunday night in Abu Dhabi it was a madhouse and it was a lot of fun. The following week I didn’t have time to celebrate because I had a lot of commitments and had to travel, so I was with my family and then in Brazil and Miami: I didn’t think about Formula 1 for two and a half weeks.“.
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