After a “unbelievable championship”, MotoGP boss Carmelo Ezpeleta was not impressed with how the 2021 Method 1 season ended and the controversy that was created.
Final season Method 1 placed on a thriller as Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton raced for the World title, the 2 buying and selling 1-2s, the lead within the championship, and infrequently items of bodywork.
The 2 went into the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix tied on factors which means whoever completed forward on the Yas Marina Circuit would take the title.
That went to Verstappen with a last-lap go, a battle that raged via to the final lap in a 22-race season.
But it surely wasn’t with out controversy, FIA race director Michael Masi setting the stage via his unprecedented resolution to permit solely the vehicles between Hamilton, who had been main, and Verstappen to unlap themselves.
Pink Bull celebrated whereas Mercedes lodged two protests, each of which have been denied.
Virtually two months later the Abu Dhabi finale continues to be making headlines as Method 1 awaits a report by the FIA into that Sunday’s decision-making, and waits to study whether or not Hamilton might be again this season.
Whereas Ezpeleta loved the struggle between the 2 protagonists, the MotoGP boss shouldn’t be dreaming of an analogous situation taking part in out in his sport.
“Me, no,” he advised Spanish day by day Marca. “I might not prefer to have a MotoGP end just like the one in F1.
“I want there have been two drivers combating for the title within the final race, however the way in which the entire thing performed out… Not for something.
“It has been a unbelievable championship, fought all year long and, in the long run, has precipitated controversies that aren’t good.
“I prefer to have a championship, if it may be, till the very disputed finish, however I don’t like that after the top they create doubt, that the runner-up doesn’t speak anymore.
“I definitely don’t dream about it.”
MotoGP, nevertheless, has had controversial moments of its personal as Ezpeleta factors out.
In 2015 Marc Marquez took on Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo for the championship title. Marquez and Rossi clashed on the penultimate race of the season, the latter handed a grid penalty for the finale in consequence.
Though Rossi recovered to complete P4 on the day, that penalty meant he was unable to problem Lorenzo for the race win and misplaced the title by 5 factors.
It was an exciting finish to the season for the followers, not a lot for Ezpeleta.
“As I didn’t dream, though everybody was very comfortable from the standpoint of media affect, with the 2015 mess between Rossi and Márquez,” he added.
“I don’t dream about these issues.”
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