Was the dramatic finish to the Formula One season sport, or a high-speed reality show with a dramatic 90-second made-for-TV denouement at 300 km/h? netflix formulaone
It was a front-row seat Daniel Ricciardo didn’t pay for, didn’t necessarily want and knew he shouldn’t have.last-lap shootout to settle the 2021 Formula One world championship in Abu Dhabi
“I probably shouldn’t have been there, so it was nuts. I was kind of left speechless, but it just summed the whole year up. When you think it can’t get crazier, it does.″ “It was obviously made to be a fight, it was for the TV of course,” said Ricciardo’s teammate Lando Norris. “It was for the result. Whether or not it was fair … I don’t know what was said or done [in race control], but a controversial end, that’s all I can say.
For years, Formula One under the stewardship of Bernie Ecclestone was a largely closed shop, one that prioritised exclusivity and erected barriers to limit inside access to, preferably, a small group with large wallets. When American-based Liberty Media purchased the Formula One Group in 2017, things changed rapidly, notes Formula One’s managing director of motorsport, Ross Brawn.