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Horner: Outside pressure to remove Masi 'not right'
Christian Horner believes the FIA's decision to terminate Michael Masi as F1's race director is "harsh", insisting the governing body ultimately succumbed to pressure which "isn't right". Masi paid the price for his botched handling of F1's title decider in Abu Dhabi last December, circumventing the normal Safety Car rules to hasten the race's restart and produce a final lap shootout between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen that handed the title on a silver plate to the Dutchman. The FIA's investigation into the race – the contents of which has yet to be made public – has led to a series of changes to the race direction's operations for 2022. Two new race directors...
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