Michael Masi took over as race director ahead of the 2019 season and held that role for three consecutive years. In the last season, viewers had the opportunity to listen to Masi’s conversations with the bosses of the teams during the broadcast. The decisions made by the Australian sometimes aroused controversy, he was accused of succumbing to external pressure.
Michael Masi paid the job for the controversy at the Abu Dhabi GP
The controversy at the Abu Dhabi GP happened at the very end of the race. Before the last lap, Michael Masi ordered the safety car to leave the track and only allowed some drivers to be duplicated, which was not supposed to happen at first. This made it possible to make up for the loss to. The racing director was accused of following the suggestions made by his boss Christian Horner.
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As a consequence, the Australian said goodbye to his job. “Michael Masi will be replaced as Formula 1 race director and will offer a new position at the FIA as part of a series of changes following an analysis of the governing body at last year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix,” the F1 official website reads. However, this is not the end of his work in Formula 1. The FIA has announced that Masi will now be working in a different position.
Big changes for Formula 1. From the new season, there will be two racing directors and a VAR
Due to the decisions of the racing director that awakened in the last year, the FIA has opted for radical changes. Viewers will no longer be able to listen to the conversations with the director of a given race during the race. As an argument for this change, the federation cited “protection of the racing director from too much pressure” and “the possibility of taking decisions calmly”.
In addition, starting from the new season, there will be two racing directors who have chosen Niels Wittich and Eduardo Freitas. This duo will also be able to count on the support of Herbie Blash, who will become a permanent advisor to the racing management. But that’s not all, because the FIA has decided to create a Virtual Race Control.
The new organ was modeled on the VAR system used in football. Experts from the virtual race management will sit in a special room and will not appear on the track. Their task will be to observe the repetitions and submit suggestions to the racing management on their basis, which will allow for fairer resolution of ambiguous situations on the track.
Source: Sport
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