LEWIS HAMILTON feels he was ‘robbed’ in Abu Dhabi and is desperate to ‘destroy’ Max Verstappen this season, according to a former F1 driver. But race director Michael Masi ripped up the rulebook surrounding safety cars to set up a final-lap showdown between title rivals Hamilton and Verstappen. And the Mercedes man has already fired a warning shot to Verstappen and Red Bull. Davidson told Sky Sports: “When Lewis Hamilton comes out with a sentence like that, you have to take notice. “There will be nothing more than Lewis wants from this season than to destroy Max Verstappen. Verstappen goes into his title defence on the back of signing a fresh £37million-a-year contract with Red Bull.

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