(Reuters) – Mercedes protested on Sunday after Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and beat their seven-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton to the 2021 world title.
The team, who still secured the constructors’ crown for a record eighth year in a row, protested an alleged breach of the sporting regulations when the safety car was deployed late in the race.
A statement from the governing FIA said Mercedes had protested “against the classification established at the end of the competition”.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Ed Osmond)
