The FIA is staging its yearly end-of-season motorsport-wide prizegiving in Baku on Friday; Max Verstappen and Red Bull to be crowned champs, while Lewis Hamilton validated as going to after completing 3rd in 2023 standings
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Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez and Lewis Hamilton will gather their awards in Baku for completing initially, 2nd and 3rd respectively in the 2023 F1 standings
A remarkable and questionable week in Solution 1 will conclude on Friday with the FIA prize-giving gala in Baku, when Max Verstappen and Red Bull will officially be crowned 2023’s champs.
The governing body’s masterpiece yearly end-of-season occasion, which acknowledges the success of motorists and groups from throughout motorsport and this year happens in Azerbaijan, comes at completion of a week when the FIA and the sport, consisting of the 10 groups, have actually been at public loggerheads over the previous’s launch of a compliance examination into Mercedes’ Toto Wolff and his partner Susie, the head of F1 Academy.
Versus this tense background, a variety of the sport’s leading figures will remain in Baku on Friday for the awards’ event, which concludes the FIA’s basic assembly week.
The occasion, which begins at 7pm UK time, will see Verstappen and Red Bull provided with their particular champion prizes after producing the most dominant seasons of perpetuity.
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Christian Horner states Red Bull and AlphaTauri have ‘absolutely nothing to do’ with problems made to the FIA declaring F1 Academy employer Susie Wolff exchanged secret information to hubby and Mercedes group principal Toto Wolff.
Under F1’s guidelines, the leading 3 in the Motorists’ Champion are all needed to go to the prize-giving occasion.
Sergio Perez completed as the far-off runner-up to his team-mate Verstappen, with Lewis Hamilton a remarkable 3rd for Mercedes offered their distressed 2023 cars and truck.
Mercedes have actually validated Hamilton will certainly remain in participation in Baku.
Hamilton avoided the occasion the last time he was because of go to in 2021 in the wake of the questionable surface to that season’s title battle with Verstappen and then-race director Michael Masi’s inaccurate handling of the Security Vehicle guidelines at the end of the race.
For his non-attendance, Hamilton paid a $50,000 fine after concurring with FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem that the cash would go towards supporting a trainee from a disadvantaged background in attaining an academic certification in motorsport.
The seven-time champ was not needed to go to in 2022 after completing 6th in the standings.
Baku has actually been a component on the F1 calendar given that 2016 and is staging the end-of-year FIA assembly for the very first time.
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