The sad loss of Charlie Whiting is still being felt in F1 to this day.
Otmar Szafnauer on the Charlie Whiting joke that turned out to be trueOtmar Szafnauer says the F1 paddock used to joke that if Charles Whiting ever left his role as race director, the sport would need “at least three people” to replace him.Whiting was Formula 1’s long-time race director, a man respected by everyone in the paddock and one who knew his job inside and out.
He played a massive role contributing towards improving safety standards, such as the introduction of Halo, as well as the inclusion of the HANS device and front and side impact structures. He sadly passed away on the eve of the 2019 season, F1 journalist Adam Cooper described him as the “perfect man for the difficult role of referee”.The Briton’s role went to Michael Masi, a tenure that was blighted by strange decisions but none more perplexing that his decision to allow only some of the lapped cars between race leader Lewis Hamilton and P2’s Max Verstappen to unlap themselves at the title-deciding 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Masi was heavily criticised for making a call that wasn’t in the rule books, the Aussie losing his job as a result. The FIA decided to replace him with two people for 2022, Eduardo Freitas and Niels Wittich, but even that didn’t work out with Wittich heavily criticised for policing an underwear and jewellery ban while Freitas was dropped from the revolving race director role after the FIA’s report into a crane on the track at the Japanese Grand Prix had
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