Mercedes Formula 1 CEO and team principal Toto Wolff has reflected on the controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which resulted in Max Verstappen claiming his first championship victory over Lewis Hamilton .

Taking aim at the race director at the time, Michael Masi, Wolff recounted the situation while joining his wife, F1 Academy managing director Susie Wolff , at an event to promote her book, Driven .

“I have not experienced the loss of control of a situation since I was a child,” the Mercedes team chief explained . “There is one lunatic who can basically destroy the record of the greatest champion of all time.”

Susie added: “It was disbelief. That one person’s decision to interpret the rules, in a way that they had never been interpreted before, could have caused such an

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