All 20 Formula One drivers have hit out at the sport’s governing body after Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc were punished for swearing
Formula One drivers have demanded the FIA stops treating them like children in a damning indictment of the governing body’s recent policies and its president, Mohammed Ben Sulayem.
“We urge the FIA president to consider his own tone and language when talking to our member drivers, or indeed about them, whether in a public forum or otherwise. Further, our members are adults. They do not need to be given instructions by the media about matters as trivial as the wearing of jewellery or underpants.”
The latest crackdown on swearing is believed to have come directly from Ben Sulayem, who gave an interview shortly before Verstappen’s punishment in which he said he did not want drivers to swear and stated F1 must “differentiate between our sport – motor sport – and rap music”. Verstappen was given a period of community service for his misdemeanour in Singapore, when he had described his car as “fucked”. He reacted to the punishment with cold fury and all but refused to speak at subsequent FIA press conferences, instead happily talking to the media afterwards.
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