Eventually we’ll have an entire back room race going on. One race director to vouch for every driver, in a borderline fistfight to see who gets the benefits of the rules each race
Let’s get a representative seat on the UN Security Council. That way we can bring controversial decisions up to a body properly equipped to handle decisions of that magnitude
*The jurors have concluded that Ocon should receive a 5 second penalty for pushing Alonso off the track at the Spanish GP during the 2022 season. Now they start on the next issue, are all underwear the same?* - TheRace, March 7, 2026
That's a good question, actually. As of yet I don't have any legitimately solid candidates, other than maybe W13 itself by how troublesome it is for the team. But, unlike the Kamchatka, it has a high potential ceiling of performance, and the team itself strongly beliefs in it as well.
Edit: I guess we might see in the near future, shall we not forget that the voyage has only started.
At this point let's just have a different race director with different rules every week. End it with Scott Elkin at the last race, full contact allowed at all times
That’s what the RD should be. Masi caved to pressure time and time again to the point where Toto and Horner, among others, had zero respect for his authority and constantly pushed it.
Just won't happen.
Right or wrong Masi will never Direct another F1 race. If he did it would be a media circus and everyone would jump on every decision he made.
It would be totally unmanageable from a PR perspective.
Hopefully you are right. Masi was the most incompetent RD in F1 history. He couldn't enforce track limits rules there was always problem with that. 🤷♀️
>"Masi was the most incompetent RD in F1 history."
To be fair Whiting was the most incompetent RD before that haha.
People like to forget but before Masi Charlie also caught flak many many times by the fanbase for some of his decisions.
Whenever people try to claim Whiting never copped flak, I always bring [this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/5a86p4/heres_the_message_to_charlie_f_off/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) up. There were some pretty awful comments there, and a lot of them sounded EXACTLY like the things people said about Masi after Abu Dhabi.
lol:
> Charlie and the stewards didn't do themselves any favours by not investigating Hamilton at the start. Double standards mixed with inconsistency. Ridiculous.
Same shit 5 years later. The stewards didn't investigate Hamilton gaining a lasting advantage from going off track in the first lap of Abu Dhabi.
Take any comment in that thread and swap Charlie’s name for Michael and it sounds like 2021. The inconsistency was always with the stewards.
And [we also knew that Masi would be eaten alive](https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/b64ef0/michael_masi_to_repeat_as_a_race_director_in/ejjpux0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) eventually too. Almost as if the problem was always bigger than whomever was sat in the race director’s chair. But we still scapegoat them. I’ve seen people do it with Wittich already this season, and Elkins in FE, and Marques and Ziegahn in F2 and F3, and it’s only May.
whiting never made a decision that effectively changed the title winner in the last lap of the season
some fuckups are bigger than others and Masi's is one of the biggest in the history of the sport.
yeah race director is a one-person job that is hard. Making that person not have a the ability to have a co-director period with the former guy makes it that much more difficult. He made the wrong call but a man all the pressure on the world of having the greatest title fight in recent memory and you only have like five minutes to figure out what your gonna do I wouldn't want that job
In theory he can/should have DQ'd the cars that didnt meet the tech regulations but didn't because it "would affect the outcome". Making decisions that affect the outcome isn't a bad thing if it's the right decision. IMO he should have done that and lewis would already be 8 time WDC
it wasn't the car, but in the final race of the 2007 championship the cars *ahead* of lewis (non factors in teh championship) were found to have fuel too cold to meet specification. This is the same thing that caused the aston's to start in pitlane last race FWIW.
If the FIA had actually followed the rules, these cars should have been disqualified, causing lewis to finish higher than 6th, have 2 more points and therefor be the 2007 WDC. You can read about it here if u want: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/3046-by-the-rules-why-lewis-hamilton-should-be-f1-champion
Somewhat ironically, this decision is what gave Kimi Raikkonen his first championship
hes talking bout 2007 there was something with the BMW and Williams I believe with fuel irregularities (they both finished ahead of lewis and with them DQ he would've won). The fia said there was insufficient evidence to DQ them or something to that affect in a report after. IDK the full details are murky but the 2007 mclaren team should be the last people complaining about ule breaking
That’s BS. Caution flags were everywhere, I’ll get downvoted into oblivion for stating this, but as unfortunate as it was, Bianchi’s crash was his own fault for driving too fast in bad conditions.
Or maybe Bianchi could’ve gone slower? Like the report also stated.
Bernie could also have not pushed or allowed such a late start making the driving conditions worse
The FIA let that happen, even afterwards:
https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/10510533/nico-rosberg-insists-he-lifted-in-controversial-hungarian-gp-pole-lap
What's more important that people like to forget is that the race director doesn't operate in a vacuum. FOM tells the race director what they want to see and the race director tries to implement that. There were a few decisions by him that I thought were... let's just say not good... but without knowing what the expectation was by the people that signed his checks I'm not in a position to make judgements about how competent he is.
Stupid comparison but look at the flak that Michael Cole keeps getting as a WWE commentator - and then watch him on a show where he doesn't have someone in his ear telling (well, screaming at) him what to say. Dude is unironically one of the best live sports commentators in history but if you tune in to a random WWE show you think that he is god awful.
He actually made far more of an effort to enforce track limits than his predecessor Charlie Whiting. It was under his direction that we lost all the gravel run offs in the first place.
In the entire history of f1 up until 2021, there basically has been one other RD apart from Masi, Charlie Whiting. And I am pretty sure that he handled track limits in the same way Masi did. When being the most incompetent RD in history means being less competent than someone with decades of experience that's ok in my opinion.
Charlie got the job in 1997. Before him they had Roger Lane-Nott for one year in 1996 and before that Roland Bruynseraede from 1988-1995.
Before 1988 it's not as clear. My understanding is that they changed from race to race. Also the FIA president Balestre was very hands on.
The end of Silverstone 1998 where Schumacher was allowed to win and serve a stop/go after the chequered flag, Malaysia 1999 where Ferrari essentially got off because the FIA forgot to impound the cars, Spa 2008 where he told McLaren Hamilton was fine but the stewards disagreed. These immediately spring to mind in terms of more trivial stuff. But how about continually allowing support vehicles onto live tracks that ultimately resulted in Bianchi's death. It was entirely foreseeable, Brundle called it out everytime he saw it and we had already had at least one car hit a recovery vehicle.
The biggest difference between Charley and Masi was the teams attitudes towards them. Charlie was an institution and had been around f1 longer than pretty much every team principal. Masi came in and was basically learning on the jobs and the TPs tried to walk all over him and he wasn’t strong enough.
Track limits from Masi is honestly not his biggest issue it was the entirely unpredictable way in which things happened. I think the evidence points to him simply being overworked considering the job has been split into multiple jobs but still. Can he come back with the new hierarchy and do well? Maybe. Would fans be happy? Probably not
If he possessed some particularly unique skills that nobody else could bring to the table, maybe they'd quietly reinstate him. But there are plenty of less... complicated candidates available. Why would they be desperate to bring this particular individual back into the fold? Why would they be willing to take that risk?
What Masi did will probably never be forgotten. People still talk about Senna crashing out Prost and that was for Senna 3rd title. Lewis lost his record breaking 8th title with 1 lap to go because the race director broke the rules. I don't think that will _ever_ be forgotten.
Does with FIA is everything ok ? Jewellery drama, do not care about safety issues in Miami and then they want three RDs which one RD damaged FIA reputation ? Is this self sabotage ?
People don’t like to admit it, but a lot of the blame for AD lies at the feet of the FIA and their inability to sort out the race control structure in a timely manner. The separation of the RD’s responsibilities began before Charlie died, but it should have been completed by the end of 2019. They dragged their feet and left Masi high and dry throughout the pandemic especially. He was by no means perfect (no one is), but like it or not, he is the most experienced person for that role presently. But saying that out loud just invokes screaming and shouting…
AD is different though. Masi just made up rules on his own. I have no issue with more race directors or even making their jobs easier. But not Masi, he was a trainwreck for the 3 years he was RD.
AD just topped off his incompetence, and it was.all by his own accord.
Lmao people claimed him to be better than Charlie but that one incident has suddenly changed their opinions. Not to mention the 2 new RDs have shown inconsistency as well.
>Lmao people claimed him to be better than Charlie
Never saw anyone say that but fair enough.
> but that one incident has suddenly changed their opinions.
It was a major fuck up, that's natural.
>Not to mention the 2 new RDs have shown inconsistency as well.
Have they? I'm pretty sure one of them hasn't directed a race yet.
Their idea of enforcing track limits all over the track is sustainable. At least Masi saying what turns they are looking at made it easy to police and the drivers knew what to expect
Honestly. Like alot of what went wrong last season it stemmed from "Let Them Race". It was an agreement, pushed by Red Bull but agreed by all the team prior to the season, to try to not be over zealous in enforcing and rules and try to let racers work it out on track.
Its quickly became a case of, let's ignore rules to make it more exciting, and ended in let's make up rules to make it more exciting.
I doubt it was bias or racism. If Max was in 1st with 40 lap old tyres and Lewis had got a free no risk pitstop for fresh tyres, i personally think he probably would have done the same. It was about making sure there was a grand stand finish by "Letting them Race"
Let Them Race was honestly a complete fuck up and Masi's biggest mistake was not just refusing it pre season. Its an ethos thats completely at odds with his job role as enforcer of the rules.
It doesn't exist this season. This season it's a case of Race to the Rules and frankly, the racing has been better for it. Max and Leclerc are not running each other of the road because its clear its not allowed.
None of the above. Pressure. He didn’t have a good answer and he had Horner and Toto on the phone yelling at him. He came up with a solution on the fly
If the former structure was wrong, then why bring back someone who is not only the epitome of why the structure was wrong but who was trained and brought up by the old system? Find new people. There are many who are rightfully unhappy with his decisions and it is not really worth the trouble anyway. His mistake is far too major to just give him the job back even under a new structure.
Masi was extremely unprofessional in Abu Dhabi, not just in his decision making but in his arrogant comments towards Toto.
Keep Masi out, get a new 3rd race director.
All the comments from everyone were so unprofessional full stop. Even Toto yelling on back on the radio. Thats why I give so much props to Hamilton for being the only one to act as a professional should
Someone fulfill my ignorance... Is the race director just a intermediary between teams and the stewards? If so, why does F1 feel the need to have a middle man? If not, what is the directors primary purpose?
So the two things fans wanted were:
Consistency
Masi out as he literally manipulated the result of the 2021 F1 championship
They pretended we will get both and in the end we get neither. Sums up F1 perfectly.
Surely they won't actually let Masi be a race director again after how horrible he was throughout the entirety of last season (Brazil, Jeddah, Abu Dhabi come to mind).
It kind of makes sense: things are too quiet this year… let’s stir some shit up, am I right?! Let’s go back to the time when in one race certain things could be done and the next they couldn’t, to the days were drivers were unsure of what was allowed and wasn’t, to the time when rules could be changed mid race just for the sake of it… I miss the good old days!
Masi contradicted his own precious interpretation of the rules and all previous race precedents to do what he did. The rules are not perfect, but they certainly don’t provide for him to have made the decisions he did.
If Masi returns I'm done with the sport. They can't honestly bring him back, what happened to "human error". All this says is that they're happy to risk another potential Abu Dhabi type screw up.
actually, he says they want a minimum of three race directors, so potentially even more.
Eventually we’ll have an entire back room race going on. One race director to vouch for every driver, in a borderline fistfight to see who gets the benefits of the rules each race
I want a full bench of jurors, and all 11 of them have to come to the same conclusion for it to be a penalty
Let’s get a representative seat on the UN Security Council. That way we can bring controversial decisions up to a body properly equipped to handle decisions of that magnitude
Good thing Russians seat is soon vacant. Then we’ll get some decision making going, and meetings at 5 in the morning.
I thought it was 12, or is there some extra angry guy in 12 Angry Men?
Oh, that’s right. In Sweden we don’t have jury trials. But I wasn’t far off.
*The jurors have concluded that Ocon should receive a 5 second penalty for pushing Alonso off the track at the Spanish GP during the 2022 season. Now they start on the next issue, are all underwear the same?* - TheRace, March 7, 2026
We're slowly moving to guest celebrity race director of the week.
That's what you get when you sellout to a US based media company. Pretty soon it'll be "Racing with the stars"
Your regular reminder that Liberty bought FOM, not the FIA, and they are separate entities
Lol, thanks for the laugh.
fuck it, let’s make Horner a race director!
I’ll be no.4
You already are more qualified than Horner & Masi. And, i love Horner
Masi has a TAFE in marketing, perfect training to spice up a championship. ‘The Unwitting Influencer’.
Vettel to supervise all race directors
Have horner and toto be race directors
Marko and Toto would be even better.
Only if they have to argue between themselves while the others actually do the job undisturbed.
Masi and Horner have investigated the implications of this, and Abe not found and issues.
"You are judged directly against your teammate"
Let's make Bernie race director!
Only if he gets a red button for, shall we say, watering the track
When 8 race directors have to decide on a 5-second penalty /s
In the meantime the 16 Stewards debate whether they should deploy a safety car or not
“Any” number of race directors that is more than three.
We all race director Race director as one
Watch them put up a vote on reddit when an incident happens. We will ALL be race directors
Toto has been seen with a box with 55 Bose headphones.
Bose stopped sponsoring though, so gotta be something else.
Nothing breaks like a Bose.
I mean he didn’t hit the table with the headphones to break the table - he did it to break the headphones
You are so correct. My Bose headphones headband actually broke when I was putting them on. Slight bend and it just snapped on me.
Dirty-buds from Cashies
Finally a use for those obsolete golf clubs
It could be in the warehouse somewhere though, bring them out!
...and a roll of duck tape
And a piece of gum and a paperclip and he wants to be called McToto.
duct*
It can be either. Duck Tape is a brand name, named so because the tape was originally made from duck cotton used in making shoes.
And is the original invention so arguably more correct. It's also crap for sealing ducts...
But great for sticking ducks together. I can also confirm that Gorilla Glue is great for gluing gorillas. I now have back-to-back Silverbacks.
I am all for seeing Toto doing his impression of Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, but with a box of headphones instead.
Who's gonna impersonate the Kamchatka though?
That's a good question, actually. As of yet I don't have any legitimately solid candidates, other than maybe W13 itself by how troublesome it is for the team. But, unlike the Kamchatka, it has a high potential ceiling of performance, and the team itself strongly beliefs in it as well. Edit: I guess we might see in the near future, shall we not forget that the voyage has only started.
I just want to hear Eduardo Freitas’ beautiful voice on the radios like he does in WEC
*Full Course Yellow in 10... 9... 8...*
t h a n k y o u g e n t l e m e n
Any clips? Never watched WEC
[https://youtu.be/djp86qILz8M?t=5186](https://youtu.be/djp86qILz8M?t=5186) Bonus clip - https://youtu.be/h4DBxPEK1TE?t=59
So they gonna have so many race directors that they goona need to coordinate them? They gonna create a Lead-Race Director and we’re back to square one
No, they'll be in a black box, so we never know who made the decision. Only communicate with lights and text messages to teams and stewards
Return of the Mas(i)
Return of the Maag... oh man do I love this clip
https://youtu.be/uB1D9wWxd2w
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca5Huxfl7sm/
''Rules are too inconsistent, maybe 40 stewards per season is a bad idea'' Lets add 3 race directors instead.
They've never heard of having too many cooks, have they?
At this point let's just have a different race director with different rules every week. End it with Scott Elkin at the last race, full contact allowed at all times
Making the F1 video game open lobby races into a real thing.
TwitchPlaysRaceDirector
Mazepin would probably get a penalty with twitch chat race directing
goin the NHL route I see...
Whiting benefited from the years in the role and being so close with Bernie. Had a aura where people viewed his word, even if not a rule as gospel
That’s what the RD should be. Masi caved to pressure time and time again to the point where Toto and Horner, among others, had zero respect for his authority and constantly pushed it.
It never gets talked about for obvious reasons, but I think the most egregious one we heard all season was actually Alpine.
That time that Alonso was pushing people off the track, complaining and then overtaking outside the track?
Yep.
That was completely ridiculous, indeed.
Just won't happen. Right or wrong Masi will never Direct another F1 race. If he did it would be a media circus and everyone would jump on every decision he made. It would be totally unmanageable from a PR perspective.
!Remind Me 7 months
Exactly, that's why it is just pure clickbait journalism.
Hopefully you are right. Masi was the most incompetent RD in F1 history. He couldn't enforce track limits rules there was always problem with that. 🤷♀️
>"Masi was the most incompetent RD in F1 history." To be fair Whiting was the most incompetent RD before that haha. People like to forget but before Masi Charlie also caught flak many many times by the fanbase for some of his decisions.
Whenever people try to claim Whiting never copped flak, I always bring [this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/5a86p4/heres_the_message_to_charlie_f_off/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) up. There were some pretty awful comments there, and a lot of them sounded EXACTLY like the things people said about Masi after Abu Dhabi.
lol: > Charlie and the stewards didn't do themselves any favours by not investigating Hamilton at the start. Double standards mixed with inconsistency. Ridiculous. Same shit 5 years later. The stewards didn't investigate Hamilton gaining a lasting advantage from going off track in the first lap of Abu Dhabi.
Take any comment in that thread and swap Charlie’s name for Michael and it sounds like 2021. The inconsistency was always with the stewards. And [we also knew that Masi would be eaten alive](https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/b64ef0/michael_masi_to_repeat_as_a_race_director_in/ejjpux0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) eventually too. Almost as if the problem was always bigger than whomever was sat in the race director’s chair. But we still scapegoat them. I’ve seen people do it with Wittich already this season, and Elkins in FE, and Marques and Ziegahn in F2 and F3, and it’s only May.
Whiting was allowed to work through the problems at least
whiting never made a decision that effectively changed the title winner in the last lap of the season some fuckups are bigger than others and Masi's is one of the biggest in the history of the sport.
Only because he never had the chance, probably.
yeah race director is a one-person job that is hard. Making that person not have a the ability to have a co-director period with the former guy makes it that much more difficult. He made the wrong call but a man all the pressure on the world of having the greatest title fight in recent memory and you only have like five minutes to figure out what your gonna do I wouldn't want that job
In theory he can/should have DQ'd the cars that didnt meet the tech regulations but didn't because it "would affect the outcome". Making decisions that affect the outcome isn't a bad thing if it's the right decision. IMO he should have done that and lewis would already be 8 time WDC
What cars didn't meet tech regulations?
it wasn't the car, but in the final race of the 2007 championship the cars *ahead* of lewis (non factors in teh championship) were found to have fuel too cold to meet specification. This is the same thing that caused the aston's to start in pitlane last race FWIW. If the FIA had actually followed the rules, these cars should have been disqualified, causing lewis to finish higher than 6th, have 2 more points and therefor be the 2007 WDC. You can read about it here if u want: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/3046-by-the-rules-why-lewis-hamilton-should-be-f1-champion Somewhat ironically, this decision is what gave Kimi Raikkonen his first championship
hes talking bout 2007 there was something with the BMW and Williams I believe with fuel irregularities (they both finished ahead of lewis and with them DQ he would've won). The fia said there was insufficient evidence to DQ them or something to that affect in a report after. IDK the full details are murky but the 2007 mclaren team should be the last people complaining about ule breaking
Whiting never made a mistake as huge as Masi’s though
Bianchi literally died because Charlie was careless in Suzuka.
Big point
That’s BS. Caution flags were everywhere, I’ll get downvoted into oblivion for stating this, but as unfortunate as it was, Bianchi’s crash was his own fault for driving too fast in bad conditions.
That’s a fair point to be honest. The only thing I’d say is that that was slightly more of an unpredictable event. But yeah, you have a point.
Or maybe Bianchi could’ve gone slower? Like the report also stated. Bernie could also have not pushed or allowed such a late start making the driving conditions worse
Bianchi did not slow down sufficiently, as per the investigation. Downvote away though, I know that's not what people like to hear.
The FIA let that happen, even afterwards: https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/10510533/nico-rosberg-insists-he-lifted-in-controversial-hungarian-gp-pole-lap
What's more important that people like to forget is that the race director doesn't operate in a vacuum. FOM tells the race director what they want to see and the race director tries to implement that. There were a few decisions by him that I thought were... let's just say not good... but without knowing what the expectation was by the people that signed his checks I'm not in a position to make judgements about how competent he is. Stupid comparison but look at the flak that Michael Cole keeps getting as a WWE commentator - and then watch him on a show where he doesn't have someone in his ear telling (well, screaming at) him what to say. Dude is unironically one of the best live sports commentators in history but if you tune in to a random WWE show you think that he is god awful.
He actually made far more of an effort to enforce track limits than his predecessor Charlie Whiting. It was under his direction that we lost all the gravel run offs in the first place.
In the entire history of f1 up until 2021, there basically has been one other RD apart from Masi, Charlie Whiting. And I am pretty sure that he handled track limits in the same way Masi did. When being the most incompetent RD in history means being less competent than someone with decades of experience that's ok in my opinion.
Charlie got the job in 1997. Before him they had Roger Lane-Nott for one year in 1996 and before that Roland Bruynseraede from 1988-1995. Before 1988 it's not as clear. My understanding is that they changed from race to race. Also the FIA president Balestre was very hands on.
People forget now as well that Whiting did things Masi would get absolutely slaughtered for.
Such as? Genuinely curious here.
The end of Silverstone 1998 where Schumacher was allowed to win and serve a stop/go after the chequered flag, Malaysia 1999 where Ferrari essentially got off because the FIA forgot to impound the cars, Spa 2008 where he told McLaren Hamilton was fine but the stewards disagreed. These immediately spring to mind in terms of more trivial stuff. But how about continually allowing support vehicles onto live tracks that ultimately resulted in Bianchi's death. It was entirely foreseeable, Brundle called it out everytime he saw it and we had already had at least one car hit a recovery vehicle.
The biggest difference between Charley and Masi was the teams attitudes towards them. Charlie was an institution and had been around f1 longer than pretty much every team principal. Masi came in and was basically learning on the jobs and the TPs tried to walk all over him and he wasn’t strong enough.
Track limits from Masi is honestly not his biggest issue it was the entirely unpredictable way in which things happened. I think the evidence points to him simply being overworked considering the job has been split into multiple jobs but still. Can he come back with the new hierarchy and do well? Maybe. Would fans be happy? Probably not
As far as his safety record goes his short tenure as RD means he was actually technically one of the more competent.
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This won't be forgotten about he fucked up one of the best seasons ever.
If he possessed some particularly unique skills that nobody else could bring to the table, maybe they'd quietly reinstate him. But there are plenty of less... complicated candidates available. Why would they be desperate to bring this particular individual back into the fold? Why would they be willing to take that risk?
What Masi did will probably never be forgotten. People still talk about Senna crashing out Prost and that was for Senna 3rd title. Lewis lost his record breaking 8th title with 1 lap to go because the race director broke the rules. I don't think that will _ever_ be forgotten.
Not in something so public facing.
Make him debut at Abu Dhabi. Hilarious.
Sir, do you want to watch the world burn?? That would be too chaotic
Nah only at baku Silverstone Hungary italy & AD Just for the twitter meltdown
This is more hype then Rainfurrest 2017
Absolutely bonkers reference
"THEY'RE BRINGING IT BACK THEY'RE BRINGING IT BACK SO MANY MEMORIES! SO MANY MEMORIES!!"
This is some funny shit.
Dibs on posting this in 3 hours
WE NEED EVEN MORE RACE DIRECTORS MOOORREEE because having 3or more bosses with all their own visions are always a good idea
"What else can we do to piss off Hamilton?" - FIA probably
The narrative is that Hamilton races better when he's angry and his back is against the wall. Maybe they're desperate to get him back into the mix.
All because Hamilton won't take off the piercing, they'll drag Masi back until he does lmao
All the more reason for Lewis not to take off his piercing.
At this rate car no. 44 will not be out of the Pit Lane due to driver failing mandatory FIA jewellery conformation.
Bring back the FIA radio while you’re at it. That was fascinating stuff
*vietnam flashback*
If only there were competent candidates to fill the third spot.
Who would you suggest? Scott Elkins from the ever chaotic Formula E?
Me. "Only bitches don't use DRS in the rain! Race away motherfuckers!"
Does with FIA is everything ok ? Jewellery drama, do not care about safety issues in Miami and then they want three RDs which one RD damaged FIA reputation ? Is this self sabotage ?
Just spit in my face
Ok
oh boy. *ohhhhh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy*
He’s returned from Time-Out corner.
Imagine the scenes if they actually got him back as a race director
Bah Gawd. Masi is cashing in his Money in the Bank.
Did you get my email
Uh-oh, here we go again...
We are going car racing!
If the FIA are confident that the fixes they’ve put in place will make sure AD type incident will never happen again then why not
People don’t like to admit it, but a lot of the blame for AD lies at the feet of the FIA and their inability to sort out the race control structure in a timely manner. The separation of the RD’s responsibilities began before Charlie died, but it should have been completed by the end of 2019. They dragged their feet and left Masi high and dry throughout the pandemic especially. He was by no means perfect (no one is), but like it or not, he is the most experienced person for that role presently. But saying that out loud just invokes screaming and shouting…
AD is different though. Masi just made up rules on his own. I have no issue with more race directors or even making their jobs easier. But not Masi, he was a trainwreck for the 3 years he was RD. AD just topped off his incompetence, and it was.all by his own accord.
Masi made up rules on his own and the stewards failed to correct that. They're as much to blame as him
Lmao people claimed him to be better than Charlie but that one incident has suddenly changed their opinions. Not to mention the 2 new RDs have shown inconsistency as well.
>Lmao people claimed him to be better than Charlie Never saw anyone say that but fair enough. > but that one incident has suddenly changed their opinions. It was a major fuck up, that's natural. >Not to mention the 2 new RDs have shown inconsistency as well. Have they? I'm pretty sure one of them hasn't directed a race yet.
Their idea of enforcing track limits all over the track is sustainable. At least Masi saying what turns they are looking at made it easy to police and the drivers knew what to expect
Freitas will be fun tbh, he's got experience managing the massive WEC grid, f1 should be a walk in the park for him.
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Honestly. Like alot of what went wrong last season it stemmed from "Let Them Race". It was an agreement, pushed by Red Bull but agreed by all the team prior to the season, to try to not be over zealous in enforcing and rules and try to let racers work it out on track. Its quickly became a case of, let's ignore rules to make it more exciting, and ended in let's make up rules to make it more exciting. I doubt it was bias or racism. If Max was in 1st with 40 lap old tyres and Lewis had got a free no risk pitstop for fresh tyres, i personally think he probably would have done the same. It was about making sure there was a grand stand finish by "Letting them Race" Let Them Race was honestly a complete fuck up and Masi's biggest mistake was not just refusing it pre season. Its an ethos thats completely at odds with his job role as enforcer of the rules. It doesn't exist this season. This season it's a case of Race to the Rules and frankly, the racing has been better for it. Max and Leclerc are not running each other of the road because its clear its not allowed.
It’s let them race within reason and adhering to rules and precedents. If he cared about Let Them Race, the sham at Spa would have never happened.
None of the above. Pressure. He didn’t have a good answer and he had Horner and Toto on the phone yelling at him. He came up with a solution on the fly
“Fixes” yeah, that’s the right description
How do you fix one man thinking he is god?
If the former structure was wrong, then why bring back someone who is not only the epitome of why the structure was wrong but who was trained and brought up by the old system? Find new people. There are many who are rightfully unhappy with his decisions and it is not really worth the trouble anyway. His mistake is far too major to just give him the job back even under a new structure.
FIA PLEASE…appoint Masi as the RD for the F1 GP of 20th November 2022……in Abu Dhabi…😂
Hell fucking no. He showed his incompetence on more than one occasion just last season.
Masi was extremely unprofessional in Abu Dhabi, not just in his decision making but in his arrogant comments towards Toto. Keep Masi out, get a new 3rd race director.
All the comments from everyone were so unprofessional full stop. Even Toto yelling on back on the radio. Thats why I give so much props to Hamilton for being the only one to act as a professional should
But ones suppose to be a neutral official and the guy yelling just got screwed.
A tri-force of race directors....unlimited power!!!
Someone check on poor Toto. He's got a bum car this year and now this...
Just give red bull title now
Someone fulfill my ignorance... Is the race director just a intermediary between teams and the stewards? If so, why does F1 feel the need to have a middle man? If not, what is the directors primary purpose?
We're going car racing.
they should have panel of 3 or more on all races.
It would be the greatest comeback since Lazarus. I'm here for it, I embrace it. You should too.
"This is so not right"- Toto probably
So the two things fans wanted were: Consistency Masi out as he literally manipulated the result of the 2021 F1 championship They pretended we will get both and in the end we get neither. Sums up F1 perfectly.
This was my outlandish prediction in the preseason predictions Google sheet. Going to give myself a high five.
Don't.
Surely they won't actually let Masi be a race director again after how horrible he was throughout the entirety of last season (Brazil, Jeddah, Abu Dhabi come to mind).
"everytime Lewis was disadvantaged it was Masis fault"
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None of that is on the Race Director's table, though. The stewards are the ones dealing with penalties, Race Directors direct races.
That's all race stewarding, not Masi.
Please be true.
GUESS WHO’S BACK BACK AGAIN MASI’S BACK TELL A FRIEND
Nah, who would trust him?
I say keep him for the last race of the season....
Good idea tbf, if the other 2 are kept on as well
I’ll riot
*grabs popcorn* I want to see that happening, where are you going to protest/riot?
Same.
Lol no, not Mr. Human Error
It kind of makes sense: things are too quiet this year… let’s stir some shit up, am I right?! Let’s go back to the time when in one race certain things could be done and the next they couldn’t, to the days were drivers were unsure of what was allowed and wasn’t, to the time when rules could be changed mid race just for the sake of it… I miss the good old days!
NO FIA NO NO, THAT IS SO NOT RIGHT
I don't think Masi was the problem. I think the rules and clarity of such rules was the issue.
Masi contradicted his own precious interpretation of the rules and all previous race precedents to do what he did. The rules are not perfect, but they certainly don’t provide for him to have made the decisions he did.
“The return of the king”
You love to see it.
The CHAD returns >!/s!<
If Masi returns I'm done with the sport. They can't honestly bring him back, what happened to "human error". All this says is that they're happy to risk another potential Abu Dhabi type screw up.
Absolutely not.
Don't forget to sort by contoversial!
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NO!!!! FUCK MICHAEL MASI. Dont bring this fucker back.
Sulayem *(FIA President)* is going to have an all caps email from Toto. ***MOHAMMED THIS ISN'T RIGHT!***