Nicholas Latifi

He ultimately lost to Sergio Perez.

And then at the 2022 Canadian Grand Prix, a similar viral campaign for Nicolas Latifi ended with Charles Leclerc winning the award.

But here's where things get interesting.

When we look at the Salesforce Driver of the Day voting data, guess who actually received the most votes in Portugal 2021? Mazepin.

We'll sweep that aside and just say your timing wasn't right because we have 22 great drivers who should be in that one.

Yeah, Nicholas Latifi, the timing was just all wrong.

It was the timing, not you.

Contracts, all that stuff aside, sometimes when you have the opportunity to go enough on, there is not a seat.

Mais bon, c'est, c'est le fameux lobbying de la Formule 1.

Quand il parle de, quand il parle de Abu Dhabi 2021, puis il dit : « Thank God for Nicholas Latifi ».

Oh oui.

[rire] Puis il dit : « Michael Masi... » Il dit : « Sur le moment, Michael Masi, qui était comme le juge steward là, en chef », là, je m'en-, le directeur de course- Ouais ...qui a pris la décision de- De laisser tout le monde sur un lap.

Valtteri knew that he wasn't going to be staying with the team I could be wrong about this but there was obviously a lot of conversation about who would be partnering Lewis Hamilton at the team next season in comparison to Sergio Perez who's just joined the team I believe was only on a one-year contract so he had a point to prove about why he should be kept in that Red Bull seat as well so I think they played their parts that they were given very well I think that there were just occasions where it didn't quite work in the way that the teams would have hoped to have worked in their favor and obviously like I said Baku 21 is a huge example of that and Hungary 21 is the complete opposite example of that I think we should just move on to the elephant in the room now because when we talk about this race there's only really one incident that we should be talking about on lap 53 out of 58 laps of racing on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in a close battle for a non-point scoring position.

Nicholas Latifi, who was at that point driving for Williams, and Mick Schumacher, who was at that point driving for Haas, came together as they, like I said, were trying to race each other, and Nicholas Latifi found himself in the wall.

I can't remember the exact turn.

I want to say it's 14, but I could be wrong about that.

Nevertheless, Went to the wall and there was a lot that happened post that.

I'll let one of my co-hosts explain before I actually ask my question.

Nicholas Latifi did what Nicholas Latifi always did.

He bottled it and he was at the double left, the hotel section.

We've put everything into this.

And, you know, Sergio drove an amazing race and as a teammate brought Max back into play to put Mercedes under that pressure of do they, don't they? And then, of course, Nicholas Latifi has his crash.

And, you know, it's going to be a safety car from us at that point.

We had nothing to lose by taking the stop.

I know I'd never seen a call like that in my 16 years at the time in racing.

Thank God for Nicholas Latifi.

Max has re-signed at Red Bull.

Did that take you by surprise enough?

Checo is just driving round and Lewis comes out behind him.

And then in the most amazing piece of driving from Sergio, he did a hell of a job.

to hold Lewis up Lewis then passed him he re-overtook him and that time was crucial because it brought Max not onto the gearbox of Lewis but it brought him within his pit stop window within a safety car window you know visual virtual safety car and so on and then you know thank god for Nicholas Latifi so And Martin had called me from Skye.

And what's going through my mind is that we were not only going to lose the constructors, but after this season long, head to head to head, we're going to come away with nothing.

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I think the story, to your point, is that you rub fans up the wrong way if you talk like a champion but you drive like Nicholas Latifi, which he has done over the past couple of race-

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It's a problem, Chap, innit?

Verstappen overtook Lewis Hamilton to win the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after the race director controversially allowed a final lap of racing by withdrawing the safety car that had been deployed for which driver's crash?

Jolyon, Latifi.

Andrew, Nicholas Latifi.

Oh, I'm afraid it was Palmer.

Ah.

In terms, the answer was Latifi.

The answer was not Palmer.

[laughs] Age, age 17, Verstappen became the youngest driver to score World Championship points when he finished the 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix in which position?