Former race director Masi received death threats after Abu Dhabi decision

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Former race director Michael Masi revealed he had received online death threats after the controversy last year that allowed Max Verstappen to claim the Formula One world title.The Australian changed the safety car re-start procedure at the end of the December's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, a move that handed th

Former race director Michael Masi revealed he had received online death threats after the controversy last year that allowed Max Verstappen to claim the Formula One world title.

"There were some dark days," Masi told News Corp on Sunday."And absolutely, I felt like I was the most hated man in the world. I got death threats. People saying, they were going to come after me and my family." A subsequent report into the Abu Dhabi race in March found that Masi had made a"human error" but acted in"good faith".

"They were shocking," Masi said of messages he received on Facebook."Racist, abusive, vile, they called me every name under the sun.

 

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