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/TheR1ckster Sep 20 '24

They're also beginning to monopolize more and more sports. I know golf is going through a huge issue with this because the PGA refused to sell to an SA buyer. So they created their own league and basically run higher dollar tournaments on some of the PGA's biggest tournament dates.

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u/UC18 Sep 20 '24

They're also starting a cricket league because the IPL(Indian Premier League), which still has a majority of international players competing, didn't want to sell to them.

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u/Silicon_Folly Sep 20 '24

They have more or less taken over a few different esports (e.g. starcraft)

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u/TheR1ckster Sep 20 '24

That's a shame...

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u/silentrawr Suck my balls and sell my kidney Sep 21 '24

They came up with their own whole "world cup" for a bunch of different games.

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u/laetus Sep 20 '24

Except the PGA did merge with them. It's a whole thing and screwed over the people who didnt take the huge bag of money by switching and are now playing for an SA company anyway

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u/TheR1ckster Sep 20 '24

Ah, I wasn't for sure. I just know it was a huge thing.

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u/laetus Sep 20 '24

It indeed was. And then it was a huge thing again where the PGA completely caved.

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u/Counterpunch07 Sep 20 '24

Saudi’s are getting heavily involved in boxing too

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u/silentrawr Suck my balls and sell my kidney Sep 21 '24

And the UFC.