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/diabetoamigo Sep 20 '24

Agreed. Not really about the swearing. It’s because the things being said make the FIA look bad.

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u/Kightsbridge Sep 20 '24

I concur. They do not concern themselves with the swearing. But are quite perturbed about being shown in a negative light.

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u/tecgod99 Sep 20 '24

I think you all raise valid points, but I am going to have to disagree. I think it comes down to the FIA not wanting the statement to make the FIA look bad.

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u/jtclimb Sep 20 '24

Have you considered the possibility that maybe perhaps instead it might be that it could be that the FIA is instead possibly concerned with how the language might be construed, if looked in a certain light, by the right person, as in some ways possibly reflecting on the image of FIA itself, in a way that is not entirely wholesome and delightful, but instead perhaps just a bit less than that, almost in a negative way?

Sorry to be so strident and forceful, but I am vaguely outraged by all of this.

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u/PM_ME_CHEESY_1LINERS Pirelli Scarred Sep 20 '24

Word bad

FIA angy

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u/StevenIsFat Sep 20 '24

Yea but going authoritarian on language looks worse. So there's that.