Sky Sports F1 lead commentator David Croft has revealed the broadcaster is still receiving complaints about the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix controversy “almost daily”, with angry Lewis Hamilton fans unwilling to forget the mistake disastrous race control.

Hamilton heads into the 2025 campaign still seeking his eighth world championship title. However, the Briton’s passionate fans still regret the final rounds of the 2021 final, when a misapplication of the rules by Michael Masi allowed Max Verstappen the chance to win the crown on the final lap of the race.

According to Croft, some of these complaints reach Sky Sports, which produces the British broadcast of F1. After an exchange with Ted Kravitz during the Abu Dhabi GP weekend, he said: “We still remember it. The rules were not respected.

“We know it, we have read the report. This is not going to change. What can I say? Probably nothing because whatever I say, it will be wrong. So I try to ignore it, to be fair. We all know what happened, but it’s not going to change, I’m afraid. Lewis Hamilton fans. You still contact us almost daily about Abu Dhabi 2021.”

Croft added: “I really want Lewis to win an eighth world championship, simply because he earned, by driving alone that night, an eighth world championship. But live sport is live sport. And sometimes things happen that don’t go as planned. That was it. It could go well, it could go against you. Live sport.

Since his defeat to Verstappen in 2021, Hamilton rarely had machines under him capable of winning races, let alone world championships. The 39-year-old has scored just two Grand Prix victories in the three years since his ultimate heartbreak.

However, after Ferrari Having finished the 2024 campaign in scintillating form, 2025 promises to give Hamilton his best chance yet of adding a record eighth world championship to his trophy cabinet.

However, standing in his way is both the threat of McLaren And Red Bull and a great new teammate in Charles Leclerc. “On the one hand, I’m going to learn from one of the best,” said the Monegasque driver, “and on the other, it’s a great opportunity for me to show what I can do against such a driver. amazing.”

When asked if he could win the title next year, Leclerc replied: “We just need a car that, throughout the season, is capable of doing it. But I am fully confident in the next team’s ability to beat Red Bullespecially for the championship, it will be us.