If anyone had ever fallen out of love with Formula 1, then the 2021 season would’ve surely reeled them back in. After years of Mercedes just running away with all the accolades, 2021 was the year when the giants fell. And with them, they took their star man Lewis Hamilton down, too, as evidenced by last year and this season. Be that as it may, it wouldn’t be all that fair to pin the blame on the Silver Arrows for Hamilton losing out on that eighth-world title. Due to controversial circumstances and a mega-controversial decision by then, race director, Michael Masi, Max Verstappen, romped to his maiden world title as Toto Wolff watched in disbelief.
After a late Safety Car, Hamilton, on older tires than Verstappen, was jeopardized as FIA allowed only the lapped cars between them to unlap themselves. This meant that Verstappen breezed past Hamilton, as fans raged at what they termed a robbery. It would appear that F1 themselves will not let the wounds of the past lay. In a hilarious fashion, in the famed Madrid F1 exhibition, they sneaked an item in for the fans to see that Wolff and Hamilton won’t be too fond of.
Spotted in the gift shop at the F1 exhibition in Madrid 👀
📸 @Victorabadf1 pic.twitter.com/0eqGBuXMtO
— Motorsport.com (@Motorsport) March 23, 2023
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Masi’s decision led to this famous one-liner being immortalized. However, Wolff will be cursing his stars for uttering these words as he sees this piece exhibited which fans can see for a mere 19.9 euros ($22 approx).
Fans react as epic one-liner credited to Toto Wolff gets immortalized
As soon as this tweet went viral, fans rushed to the social media website, Twitter to share their reactions. One fan even commented, “Formula 1 is absolutely NASTY for this.” Let’s take a look at just a few of the fan reactions from F1 Exhibition Madrid’s epic Wolff troll.
If this isn’t a slap in the face for Abu Dhabi 21, I don’t know what is 😂 https://t.co/RO76QUsqwT
— Just Hun (@JustHun_) March 23, 2023
Formula 1 is absolutely NASTY for this https://t.co/yjnxcDy2RX
— Tyson, no longer 42 (@TyMoIsSecret) March 23, 2023
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hahahahahahahahahahahahaha https://t.co/OkTPj9lIYU
— Firentsu~E kaze (@LuisJFlorentino) March 23, 2023
Fans also started quoting the radio comms from that fateful night in Abu Dhabi. Safe to say, Wolff will not be finding this as funny and hilarious as the rest of the folks over at Twitter.
This is not right…
— Tyson, no longer 42 (@TyMoIsSecret) March 23, 2023
It’s called a motor race
We went car racing
— Big Tone (@spanish_tony1) March 23, 2023
While some called out the controversy.
Strange to celebrate a situation that was judged to be the result of human error and caused many to question the whole of the @FIA and @F1 .
— Martin Hidinger (@remainingthird) March 23, 2023
Others were just having some benign fun at the expense of Wolff and Hamilton.
1) it's "no Mikey no"
2) that's fucked up 🤣 https://t.co/FzM2GZyMxI— Nellyboi🇵🇹 (@Nellyboi_21) March 23, 2023
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I want this https://t.co/L8cImGjxOS
— Renjiro Junichi 🏎 (@Renjiro_Junichi) March 23, 2023
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Was this all fun, or was this just a little below the belt by Formula 1?