IT IS AMAZING HOW MUCH PEOPLE ARE STILL TALKING ABOUT LAST YEAR’S ONE-LAP race/championship. However it was an unforgettable F1 race. As the Williams car of Nicholas Latifi hit the barriers the yellow flags waved and the safety car appeared, I could almost hear Jean Todt shouting in the ears of Michael Masi, “No! It should not be finished on the safety car, we must have a race!” It was such a pity that in those precious seconds Masi did not wave the red flag, as then it would have been a new race, both with equal tyres. Imagine what a race!
The irony was that it was a rare and unusual mistake by Lewis Hamilton to leave the door open in Turn 5 for the very hungry Max Verstappen, together with the mistake of Mercedes by not stopping for fresh tyres, that actually dictated the outcome of the one-lap race and championship.
If ever there was a year when we should have had two
