F1 information LIVE: Pink Bull hope for title increase over George Russell influence on Lewis Hamilton

The Williams driver misplaced management of his automotive and hit the wall on the Yas Marina Circuit, triggering a security automotive with 5 laps of the race remaining.

Hamilton was on target to win a record-breaking eighth F1 championship however Latifi’s crash modified the course of historical past, permitting Verstappen to modify onto a contemporary set of soppy tyres and meet up with Hamilton earlier than overtaking him within the dramatic last-lap shootout.

Latifi later apologised for the innocuous crash, which the Canadian stated was attributable to dust on his tyres, in addition to the position he performed in influencing the result of the championship battle.

However in an additional submit on social media on Tuesday, launched greater than every week after the top of the F1 season, Latifi revealed the extent of the “hate, abuse and loss of life threats” he was despatched on-line within the aftermath of the race. The 26-year-old additionally stated a few of “these closest” to him had acquired abuse as effectively.

Mercedes workforce principal Toto Wolff says he “overstepped” throughout his rant at race director Michael Masi on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Their conversations have been criticised alongside Masi’s resolution to permit some vehicles to unlap themselves and others not. The discussions have led to F1’s managing director of motorsports Ross Brawn to name for a ban and Wolff has supported the thought.

“I agree with Ross,” Wolff advised Motorsport.com. “However I equally blame Ross and myself as a result of we’ve been a part of the choice making to broadcast extra of the channels for the aim of transparency and leisure for the followers.

“There’s a lot happening on the intercom that giving followers a bit of little bit of an summary of all of the little dramas that occur, like is the automotive breaking down, are we having some type of technique discussions, was meant effectively. However I feel we overshot.

“I must take myself by the nostril, and Christian. We got the chance to speak to the race director straight, and since we combat so fiercely for the pursuits of our groups all of us overstepped.”

Valtteri Bottas has recalled how 2018 helped him change into a more durable individual and driver, having didn’t win a race for Mercedes – the one season throughout a five-year spell with the workforce he didn’t handle that.

“2018, being very trustworthy, it was not my favorite automotive,” Bottas stated in a YouTube video on the Mercedes channel.

“I struggled a bit that season. Clearly I had some robust races and I bear in mind very effectively in Baku I used to be main with one lap to go and had a puncture on the primary straight. I ought to have gained that race. There have been many different unfortunate occasions as effectively that 12 months.

“I feel general I used to be fairly fast however by no means nailed the entire race weekend and by no means had a win that 12 months. However loads of podiums, so nonetheless good success in a method and as a workforce we secured the title in Brazil. As a workforce, [it was] a extremely profitable season.”

Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton loved a second of mutual respect earlier than their battle in Abu Dhabi to determine the F1 world title, nevertheless it was not caught on digital camera, Tom Clarkson has revealed.

“There was a humorous second on the weekend the place, previous to having Max and Lewis collectively on Thursday, there was a giant dialogue about ‘can we go for the tacky handshake shot’,” Clarkson stated on the F1 Nation podcast.

“Which I feel you [F1 Nation co-host Damon Hill] and [Michael] Schumacher did a couple of instances, didn’t you? So it’s ‘are we going to go for the tacky handshake shot as a result of that’s what all of the newspapers will need?’

“Anyway, Max arrives early, sits down and we’re simply having a chat. About three minutes later, Lewis walks in, walks straight over, fist-bumps him and goes ‘the way you doin’, man?’ and so they have a little bit of a chat.

“I believed ‘good, that’s the shot, I don’t want to fret about this tacky handshake factor anymore’.

“And we had a Netflix digital camera in there. We had the 2 cameras we’ve within the press convention room anyway. There was even a photographer in there as effectively.”

The Dutch-Belgian driver crashed 3 times this 12 months – on the British and Italian grands prix, in addition to in qualifying for the inaugural Saudi Arabian occasion.

Regardless of these mishaps, Verstappen was in a position to win his first world title on the ultimate lap of the season finale in Abu Dhabi this month.

As such, Pink Bull could also be much less involved by the 24-year-old’s crashes and the resultant prices than in every other season.

Verstappen’s crashes price the workforce nearly precisely €3.9m in complete, per Sky Germany – the third highest determine amongst all drivers this 12 months.

Main the record was Mick Schumacher of Haas, who reportedly price his workforce €4.2m, adopted by Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc with €4m.

Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas was in fifth with €2.7m, whereas teammate and championship runner-up Lewis Hamilton was down in fifteenth on €1.2m.

In final place among the many 20 drivers was Esteban Ocon of Alpine, reportedly costing the workforce €280,000.

Susie Wolff, the previous Method 1 improvement driver and spouse of Mercedes workforce principal Toto, has launched a scathing assault on the FIA over its dealing with of the controversial Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Wolff nonetheless feels “sick” on the circumstances wherein Hamilton misplaced the title.

“What occurred continues to be arduous to grasp and nonetheless leaves me with a sick feeling,” she wrote in a social media assertion. “Not the dropping – and never Max or Pink Bull – they’re deserving winners and we all the time knew it was a robust risk we might not win – however the best way wherein Lewis was robbed has left me in utter disbelief.

“The choice of 1 individual inside the governing physique who utilized a rule in a method which has by no means been finished earlier than in F1 single-handedly determined the F1 Driver World Championship. Guidelines are guidelines, they’ll’t be modified on a whim by one particular person on the finish of a race.

“The end result of the final laps on Sunday? Those that know, they know, even those that can’t fairly convey themselves to confess it. I hope by March of subsequent 12 months there’s a governing physique with sporting integrity and equity at its core so I can fall again in love with F1.”

Wolff’s husband Toto stated he and Hamilton “won’t ever recover from” the controversy and are “disillusioned” in his first press interviews for the reason that season finale.

Russell, who’s now Hamilton’s teammate at Mercedes, tweeted: “Big respect to you for talking up, Nicholas Latifi.

“There’s no place for this type of hatred in our world.”

Whereas Lando Norris reposted the assertion, including: “Effectively stated!”

An off-the-record dialog between David Coutlhard and Max Verstappen and his father has been revealed.

With the Briton congratulating the pair with vibrant language.

A former Pink Bull driver between 2005 and 2008, DC was delighted for the Dutch-Belgian driver.

“It’s f****** superior isn’t it. Effectively finished, son.”

Russian Method 1 commentator Alexey Popov fears F1 might be set for a brand new period of one-team dominance.

Forward of latest rules in 2022, after Mercedes dominated the turbo hybrid period, profitable all however one trophy from 201- 2021, new aerodynamic rules are designed to permit 20 drivers to compete extra constantly.

However Popov fears that with groups switching focus at totally different instances over the past 12 months, there will likely be an exaggerated separation within the early levels of subsequent season with a dominant pressure from the outset.

“I’m very afraid of the primary 12 months of those new guidelines,” Popov advised Championnat. “Individuals count on a lot, as a result of Ross Brawn has provide you with this new ‘floor impact’.

“However in my lifetime, the foundations have modified many instances and every time, as an alternative of a tricky combat, one individual comes up with one factor within the gray space and they’re a second and a half forward. Then, the entire season turns into about everybody else painfully making an attempt to simply catch up.

“This 12 months we acquired used to a multi-layered battle: two groups for first place, two for third place, for fifth place. So what I actually don’t need is for somebody to deal with Brawn’s floor impact significantly better than the others.

“Sadly my forecast is disappointing. I’m afraid that we’d see some kind of super-dominance once more.”

Max Verstappen has hinted that he would stroll away from Method One if key Pink Bull race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase had been to depart the workforce.

Lambiase has been Verstappen’s race engineer ever for the reason that Dutchman joined the workforce as an 18-year-old in 2016 and the pair are in direct contact throughout races.

Verstappen has beforehand spoken about how Lambiase is a chilled affect throughout race weekend and the pair’s relationship has grown on and off the monitor.

And Verstappen, 24, has even revealed that he has advised Lambiase that his presence is so necessary that he would take into account quitting Method One if he was to depart the game.

“I’ve stated to him I solely work with him. As quickly as he stops, I cease too,” Verstappen revealed to Ziggo Sport.

“In fact, we will be fairly strict with one another generally, however I need that too. He has to inform me once I’m being a jerk and I’ve to inform him. I all the time advised him that.

“He can inform me that on the radio as effectively, nevertheless it’s been going rather well currently. The previous couple of years I attempted to be the engineer and he tried to be the driving force.”