On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 13:40:43 -0800, Alan <
nope@nope.com> wrote:
On 2022-02-09 1:27 p.m., Bigbird wrote:
Red Bull: Obviously those lapped cars, you don't need to let them go
right the way around and catch up with the back of the pack.
Masi: Understood.
Red Bull: You need to let them go.
Masi: Understood, just give us a second.
Red Bull: ...and then we got a motor race on our hands.
After the race, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff tells Masi what he
has done is "not right".
Masi replies: "Toto, it's called a motor race, OK?"
And you posted this... ...why, exactly?
What does it illuminate?
Most of us heard or read that exchange ages ago.
There is suggestion that some of the full exchange, not quoted above,
has only come to the fore yesterday.  
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/60318052
Extract but best to read the full article though no doubt better
exists within the racing congnicenti:
<quote>
Wheatley says: "Those lapped cars; you don't need to let them go right
the way around and catch up with the back of the pack. You only need
to let them go, and then we've got a motor race on our hands."
Masi replies: "Understood."
After the race, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff gets on the radio
to tell Masi that what he has done is "not right".
Masi replies: "Toto, it's called a motor race, OK?"
The radio transmissions are not new - they were on a video released by
Formula 1 on 16 December, four days after the race - but the one from
Wheatley appears to have missed general circulation in the storm that
followed.
Their emergence into the public arena - they were trending on Twitter
on Wednesday with the hashtag #F1xed - has come days before the FIA is
due to reveal the outcome of its inquiry into Abu Dhabi to a meeting
of the F1 Commission next Monday.
And it fits an impression of Masi acting in Red Bull's favour during
the race and against Mercedes' interests.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner had previously said to Masi:
"Why aren't we getting these lapped cars out of the way? You only need
one racing lap."
</unquote>
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AnthonyL
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