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Sky Sports F1’s Ted Kravitz says if the FIA admitted that the rules were not “correctly applied” at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, “that would influence the legitimacy of the championship”.
According to the FIA’s announcement, the decisions stemming from the FIA’s investigation into the controversial finish of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, will be “announced at the World Motor Sport Council in Bahrain on 18 March”.
While the Formula 1 world eagerly awaits to see what the FIA discovered in their Abu Dhabi investigation, Sky Sports F1’s Ted Kravitz points out they never said they were going to make the report public.
“It is a strange thing,” Kravitz said,
“In the midst of what happened in Abu Dhabi the new incoming president Mohammed ben Sulayem said we will gather together all the information to learn what happened, we’ll hear from the drivers, we’ll hear from the teams involved, we’ll hear from Michael Masi the race director…
“And did they ever say they’ll make the report public? No they didn’t. They said they’d put a report together. Does that report consist in a form they can make public. What would they say?
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“We already have all the facts in front of us it would seem. Mercedes believe the rules were not correctly applied, their own rules, the FIA’s rules, were not correctly applied.
“The FIA say okay one rule wasn’t correctly applied, but it covers itself with the race director can more or less do whatever he wants with the Safety Car.
“So they can’t come out and say it was not correctly applied because that would influence the legitimacy of the championship and they don’t want to do that, they can’t do that.
“What they can do is come out and say it wasn’t optimal and this is what we are going to do to change it.
“The small change to the sporting regulations isn’t coming out and putting to bed all the questions from Abu Dhabi in any way,” the Briton concluded.
It remains to be seen whether Formula 1 will actually come out with anything publicly, after the World Motor Sport Council meeting tomorrow.
