World champion Max Verstappen must carry out public interest work as punishment for swearing in an official F1 press conference
This absolute nonsense. Max should push this issue by not complying (maybe even add a little “fuck yous” in the message). What are they going to do? Whatever the next step would be, just ignore and do not comply.
Force the hand of the FIA to show them for what they are : idiots gatekeeping nonsense. This does nothing for the sport and it is a non-issue.
Some part of me feels this is a consequence of an American company owning F1 now and implementing these BS actions that seem to be normal in US sports. I was afraid that this mentality would come to F1 and here we are…
The British are way more afraid of swearing on national TV than the Americans are
Nope, the broadcaster just issues a (sometimes tongue in cheek) apology and everything carries on.
The US broadcasters risk breach of advertising contracts and losing money over it.
The UK broadcasters will get a small fine if they don’t apologise and do it regularly.
And the public in the UK generally don’t care.
It’s the same. Liberty is driven by money and it is scared advertisers will take offense and consequentially less money be generated because of it. MBS is cognizant of this concern and started to act as he also is driven by financial motives.
You could consider Liberty and MBS to be in the same camp on this one. And it is all about financials, not morals.
Some part of me feels this is a consequence of an American company owning F1 now and implementing these BS actions that seem to be normal in US sports. I was afraid that this mentality would come to F1 and here we are…
Nah, it’s the Brits who say " we apologise for any strong language you may have heard" even if it was only one word because of Ofcom. I can’t find any good data because search engines are glorified news machines now not finding anything older, but this has been a thing for public broadcasts for a while.
Language like that is quite common in the Netherlands, I suppose it’s all rappers there. I fail to see how this did any harm to F1, or motorsport. It is childish. This will further reduce the quality of press conferences where drivers really do not say anything but the usual: “Car was [not] running well, we are [not] confident we can run for the top places [run in the points]. We have [no] upgrades. See you after the race.”.
Future press conferences “I am here so I don’t get fined.”
Fuckin hell
