The 2021 season was one of the craziest that Formula 1 has experienced in recent times. The title was decided on the last lap of the last race, in Abu Dhabi. All this after restarting the race after a safety car caused by an accident Nicholas Latifi.
max verstappenwho was wearing new tires, overtook lewis hamilton and thus achieved his first championship with Red Bull. This season he has achieved the second in a row, although this time without a rival present.
Speaking to ‘Auto Motor und Sport’, Verstappen has revealed that he has never commented on what happened with Hamilton: “We haven’t spoken. The season is over and that’s behind us”.
“People always talk about the last race, but you have to see the whole season. We were fighting all year and that must be remembered. There were two teams that left everything on the track. At last there was title competition again“, has completed the Dutch pilot.
In this way, Verstappen ends with all the comments that were around about that situation. A very tense situation that had been dragging on throughout the season with several accidents.
Hamilton ended up sunk. He even considered leaving Mercedes. Finally the team and Toto Wolff They were able to convince him and even now he is considering renewing his contract.