Lewis Hamilton was “in trouble” in the moments immediately after losing the 2021 world championship. That is the claim of Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, who was up on the podium with the seven time world champion and new title winner Max Verstappen after the highly contentious Abu Dhabi finale. Losing the title on the last lap like that is really hard to accept, so I respect him even more than I did before for how he managed to behave. “We exchanged a few words on the podium – he was really in trouble,” Sainz revealed. The Ferrari driver says it’s important now for Formula 1 to tidy up the aftermath of the affair to that the sport is not constantly grappling with rolling controversies.

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