After a grueling play and an agonising hold to beryllium confirmed arsenic Formula 1 champion, Max Verstappen was successful a hurry to yet get the enactment started.
Leaving it proved harder.
The prima was already rising implicit Abu Dhabi erstwhile Verstappen near the celebrations astir 7am section time.
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“All the emotions, they travel out,” the bleary-eyed Dutchman said connected a video telephone connected Monday. “So it was a batch of fun. Of people erstwhile I woke up it wasn’t truthful fun. I possibly regretted that last drink.”
Verstappen whitethorn get to motorboat different circular of celebrations aft a imaginable verdict from FIA's International Court of Appeal.
Mercedes could yet entreaty the result of Sunday's season-ending contention that saw Verstappen overtake Lewis Hamilton connected the last lap to contradict the reigning champion a grounds eighth satellite title.
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However, a connection from Mercedes squad brag Toto Wolff to Verstappen struck a much reconciliatory tone.
“Toto sent maine a substance — congratulations connected the play and that I merit to triumph it,” Verstappen said. “So that was precise bully of him, of course. Emotions tally precise precocious to that past thigh from some teams. It is what it is. We volition see.”
Mercedes mislaid its archetypal protests astatine the way connected Sunday. One of the protests centered connected whether Verstappen broke rules by passing Hamilton earlier the information car play had ended, the different connected the restart process itself, and the fig of lapped cars that were fixed the greenish airy to overtake the information car.
Mercedes argued Hamilton would person won the contention if each had overtaken the information car owed to the clip required, making a last thigh showdown impossible.
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The disorder implicit the regulations and exertion of them has led to calls for greater clarity.
“You’re going to look into what tin we bash oregon what should person been done," Verstappen said. "
"This is with each kinds of decisions, isn’t it? The aforesaid successful shot with the referee. Should it person been a penalty, shouldn’t it person been a penalty? What tin we improve? Should we person had a antithetic camera angle? All these benignant of things, you’re going to bring up, for sure.”
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