Mercedes Have Withdrawn Their Appeal Against The Abu Dhabi GP Result

It’s official. Max Verstappen is your 2021 F1 World Champion as Mercedes have spoken they have withdrawn their request versus the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix results. This statement was shared just hours surpassing the FIA’s Prize Giving Gala and stated that the team came to a visualization with help from their suburbanite Lewis Hamilton.

In a statement shared on social media, the team confirmed that they would “hold the FIA accountable,” but they’ll moreover “withdraw [their] appeal”.

Hamilton lost out on a potential eighth world championship with a highly controversial ending to the season finale that involved the safety car restart.

Team Statement – Abu Dhabi Grand Prix pic.twitter.com/tgrBjrNkcz

— Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) December 16, 2021

“Together with Lewis, we have deliberated thoughtfully over how to respond to the events at the Formula 1 season finale. We have unchangingly been guided by our love of this sport, and we believe that every competition should be won on merit. In the race on Sunday, many felt, us included, that the way things unfolded was not right.

“The reason we protested the race result on Sunday was considering the Safety Car regulations were unromantic in a new way that unauthentic the race result, without Lewis had been in a commanding lead and on undertow to win the World Championship.

“We appealed in the interest of sporting fairness, and we have since been in a constructive dialogue with the FIA and Formula 1 to create clarity for the future, so that all competitors know the rules under which they are racing, and how they will be enforced.

“Thus, we welcome the visualization by the FIA to install a legation to thoroughly analyse what happened in Abu Dhabi and to modernize the robustness of rules, governance and visualization making in Formula 1. We moreover welcome that they have invited the teams and drivers to take part.

“The Mercedes-AMG Petronas team will urgently work with this legation to build a largest Formula 1 – for every team and every fan who loves this sport as much as we do. We will hold the FIA subject for this process and we hereby withdraw our appeal.”

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