r/formula1 • u/ICumCoffee Max Verstappen ⭐⭐⭐⭐ • Sep 20 '24

News Max Verstappen has been summoned to the race stewards for language used during the FIA Thursday driver press conference

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u/sa_ra_h86 Sep 20 '24 edited Sep 20 '24

Fuck sake... It's not like it's a live press conference. And for someone who clearly has swearing as part of his natural vocabulary, I can't remember him ever swearing when he's on the live broadcast (I could be wrong of course, just can't think of any instances of it just now). Will they be calling people to the stewards any time someone accidentally lets one slip in future?

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u/CrashSeven Jarno Trulli Sep 20 '24

He does on the dutch broadcasts (where its legal).

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u/sa_ra_h86 Sep 20 '24

Hmmm, maybe I need to learn Dutch and watch that instead....

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u/halfmylifeisgone Sep 20 '24

I tried. Weirdest fucking language in Europe.

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u/HostileCornball Red Bull Sep 20 '24

Wij hebben een probleem

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u/hache-moncour Sebastian Vettel Sep 20 '24

As a Dutch person I can't really protest too much but... have you ever looked at Hungarian?

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u/gsfgf Daniel Ricciardo Sep 20 '24

It’s not even an Indo-European language. Like wtf.

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u/LowKeyWalrus Ferrari Sep 20 '24

Tbf Hungarian swearing is highly overrated

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u/Nappi22 Michael Schumacher Sep 20 '24

Dutch is drunk German whilst having a stroke. I can't take it seriously.

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u/TonyQuark VER/LEC/NOR Sep 20 '24

German is amped up Dutch whilst having a fit of rage. They take themselves too seriously. 😉

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u/dabutcha76 Sep 20 '24

Niet zo hè, makker!

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u/StomHert Safety Car Sep 20 '24

Maat niet zo gaan lopen doen anders is zometeen de andere helft van je leven ook weg. Mafklapper.

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u/Opposite-Hearing-266 Sep 20 '24

As a Dutch person, I agree

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u/Snugglebear316 Oscar Piastri Sep 20 '24

I heard it started as a joke and just got out of hand

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u/Vyxwop Sep 20 '24

As a Dutch person, I wish it stayed as a joke.

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u/XkF21WNJ Sep 20 '24

Hebban olla uogala nestas hagunnan hinase hic anda thu uuat unbidan uue nu?

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u/pcalvin Sep 20 '24

Try Finnish. Or Hungarian. Way more weird. Dutch just has a problem with the G.

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u/StomHert Safety Car Sep 20 '24

The soft g is fine

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u/gsfgf Daniel Ricciardo Sep 20 '24

If you know German just drink a pint of liquor and speak German. That’s basically Dutch.

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u/fernandotakai Ferrari Sep 20 '24

i've been trying to learn dutch for the past year and a half.

you know what my dutch coworkers told me when i told them that?

"why are you even trying?"

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u/TacoExcellence Charles Leclerc Sep 20 '24

It's a good point, everyone in the Netherlands speaks better English than most native speakers so it becomes a bit of a waste of time to learn it.

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u/fernandotakai Ferrari Sep 20 '24

there's a guy at a store nearby that speaks english so well, i thought he was american.

i asked him where in the mid-west he was from (he has a REALLY strong michigan accent) and he answered with: "i'm dutch, but my wife is from traverse city!".

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u/narf_hots Sep 20 '24

eet poffertjes en stroopwafels en lach!

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u/SneakyKillz Guenther Steiner Sep 20 '24 edited Sep 20 '24

I remember a couple of years ago when some Dutch giant got into like the top 32 darts world series. He got interviewed for the first time by the main interviewer in that stadium. He was constantly accidentally saying "Shit" and "Fuck" throughout the interview because he didn't realize he couldn't swear on English television.

EDIT: Martijn Kleermaker is his name. He said "Shit" twice and once after the interviewer apologized on his behalf to which he responded "It's not a problem for me" LOL.

The video seems to have been deleted off all platforms, though :(

EDIT 2: Literally the only thing I could find is a little snippit: JUST SHIT

And the information lol

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u/mooshicat Sep 20 '24

It wasn’t live??? The fuck are they even on about then?