The Sydney TAFE graduate who created Formula One’s most chaotic finish ever | mrchrisnico
One of the last text messages Michael Masi sent before he went to bed was to good friend and five-time Supercar champion Mark Skaife.
That was when the man who grew up in Sydney’s western suburbs became a central character in the final throes of one of the most exciting seasons in the history of motor sport’s premier class. Not wanting to finish the race and the season under a safety car, Masi made the highly contentious call as race director to have one last lap of racing and allowed four cars between Verstappen and Hamilton to pass Hamilton and the pace car, effectively ‘unlapping’ themselves and getting out of the way.
Schenken, who also happens to be Craig Bellamy’s next-door neighbour in Melbourne, played a big role in helping Masi when he was starting out, including putting him on the radar of the late, great Charlie Whiting, the former driver, mechanic and chief engineer who was Formula 1 racing director before his sudden passing in 2019.
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