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New FIA president Mohammed ben Sulayem says Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff “started cooling down” after they spoke.
The controversy surrounding the end of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix led to Toto Wolff accusing race director Michael Masi of “a freestyle reading of the rules and it left Lewis like a sitting duck”, which ‘robbed’ Lewis of his eighth world title.
Although Mercedes withdrew its appeal over the FIA’s decisions, neither Wolff nor Hamilton attended the FIA Prize-Giving Gala.
Newly elected FIA president Mohammed ben Sulayem said he has spoken to Wolff about this.
“Someone will always get upset,” ben Sulayem said.
“I spoke to Toto and he said to me: ‘I am not coming here’. I listened to him. When I listened, he started cooling down.
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“We will look into the rules and make sure any situation like this that occurs in the future we will have an instant solution to it. There are so many areas we can improve.”
He also said that as a former driver, he understands the way Hamilton is feeling.
“It is a responsibility of me that we forget the past but look into it with improvement. We have to be proactive. We have to improve in every aspect.
“As a driver, I would be so upset for a while but time is a fact that will cool,” ben Sulayem concluded.
