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After saying that the Abu Dhabi report doesn’t need to be released, Max Verstappen has now changed his tune and thinks “it’s good” that the FIA released it.
Before the FIA’s report, stemming from their inquiry into the controversial ending of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was released, Max Verstappen was asked by the media if he believes it should be shown to the public.
“I don’t think we need a full report,” the Dutch driver said at the time.
“Of course, every year it is good to discuss what happened the year before and what you can do better.
“That is what teams do as well, you analyse everything you do so we will find out and if things can be written down in an easier way or a way to understand it better in the wording, for sure, but let’s see.”
Well, an “executive summary” of the report was released and in it the FIA admitted that the rules were not applied correctly (although they did their best to excuse it with terms like “human error”).
Now that the report has been released, Max Verstappen seems to have changed his tune, as he now believes “it’s good” that the report has been made public.
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“I think it’s good they showed it to the world, what they have been investigating,” Verstappen said.
“But also for me, these kind of investigations should happen every single year because I think as an organisation, as a team, you always want to try and improve and do things better.
“For me it’s quite a natural process you do anyway. It’s quite straightforward,” he concluded.
Here he obviously tries to frame the whole report as ‘business as usual’, but it definitely isn’t. In the report the FIA admits that (in the best case scenario) mistakes had been made, and nobody can dispute that these mistakes have influenced the outcome of the 2021 championship.
Although the FIA could investigate every season, not every season needs to be investigated. When the champion is decided by an official obviously breaking the rules, well, that warrants an investigation.
