Verstappen vs Fia
The media battle between Max Verstappen and the FIA shows no signs of stopping. The attempt to lower the tone by the Federation, which chose not to further penalize the reigning world champion after the dramatic protest carried out in the official press conferences of the Singapore GP, does not seem to have worked. So much so that, from the Verstappen house, even dad Jos didn’t fail to have his say about Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s decision to ban any type of bad language on Formula 1 race weekends and more generally in all competitions organized by the Federation.
The case of Ogier in the WRC
Over the weekend, for example, there was discussion about the fine of 30,000 euros – suspended on probation, which means that it will not actually have to be paid unless there is a repetition of the incorrect behavior – imposed on the WRC driver Sebastien Ogierguilty of having used inappropriate language to comment on the decisions of the race direction of the last Acropolis Rally, in Greece. In short, the FIA’s theoretically noble intent to clean up the drivers’ language so as not to transmit uneducational messages to younger spectators, it’s turning into a somewhat sanctimonious anti-swearing crusade which will soon also become a media boomerang.
Jos Verstappen is with Max
A perfect context for Jos Verstappeninterviewed by journalists from Autosport during the Eastern Belgium Rally weekend about the community service sentence given to his son Max in Singapore: “I think it’s the most ridiculous thing ever and we also saw it in the World Rally Championship. I don’t think the FIA is doing a very good job, but that’s all I’ll say about it!”. The Dutch champion had even threatened to withdraw from Formula 1 at the end of last weekend, while former rival Lewis Hamilton had encouraged him to civil disobedience, inviting him not to participate in gambling and therefore not to serve his hours of socially useful work provided for by the sanction.
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