Amid an enormous amount of abuse on social media, Williams driver Nicholas Latifi has spoken out about his Abu Dhabi crash. 9WWOS F1
A safety car was employed, all five lapped drivers positioned between Hamilton and Verstappen were approved to overtake the safety car, Verstappen drew just about level with the Briton and the rivals had a final-lap shootout to decide the title.
Verstappen, on fresh soft tyres, had no trouble winning the race to the chequered flag because Hamilton was on hard tyres that he had pitted for on lap 14. Although Latifi is copping a huge amount of backlash, the vast majority of criticism is being fired at race directorWhile the Australian official allowed the lapped drivers positioned between Hamilton and Verstappen to pass the safety car, he didn't permit the other lapped drivers to do the same.
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