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Looking at the 2021 season F1 journalist Chris Medland says “despite everything that went before it, the final act of the season ruined almost all of those memories”.
In his column for RACER.com F1 journalist Chris Medland said the 2021 title battle between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen was “one of the greatest championships battles we have been lucky enough to see”.
However, he says the controversial decisions made at the end of the final race in Abu Dhabi “destroyed” the season.
“The fact I live in the UK means the next point should probably be expected, but every single person I’ve seen over the holidays so far has asked me about F1 at some stage, and all they’ve asked is if Hamilton was robbed,” Medland wrote.
“None of the other occasions that I referenced above [in his column where he talked about all the great things that happened in the season] have been mentioned once.
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“It doesn’t feel like over time the anger from the final race will disappear to leave some rose-tinted memory of 2021.
“And nor should it, because despite everything that went before it, the final act of the season ruined almost all of those memories.
“It was a sensational year, perhaps the best we will see for decades in terms of two of the greatest drivers pushing each other to new heights in direct combat and taking it all the way to the wire. But it won’t just be remembered that way.
“Rarely has a more deserving champion been crowned in a less acceptable way, and never has a more brilliant season been destroyed so easily,” Medland concluded.
