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Formula 1 to conduct ‘analysis’ on Abu Dhabi Safety Car restart

Formula 1 has announced it will investigate the highly controversial Safety Car restart that ultimately decided the 2021 championship. With Sir Lewis Hamilton leading Max Verstappen by a comfortable margin in the dying laps of the title-decider last weekend, a Nicholas Latifi crash prompted a late Safety Car. In the event that the race would not be restarted, Mercedes decided not to pit Hamilton in order to maintain track position – confident there would be insufficient time to allow lapped cars through. Race director Michael Masi initially ruled that lapped car would not be allowed by, before suddenly decreeing ahead of the final lap that only the five cars between Hamilton and...
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