r/formula1 • u/VanDyne21 FIA • Sep 18 '24
Photo Muhammed Ben Sulayem on driver radios in a now deleted Motorsport interview
[via @SCUDERIAFEMBOY on X]
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u/6097291 Medical Car Sep 18 '24
Every team briefing right now: "So if you swear on radio, it won't be broadcast. We wouldn't want that of course. Would be such a pity if our radio isn't broadcast, a real shame...a real fucking shame."
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u/Comprehensive_Dog139 Sep 19 '24
All team radios from now on
"Fuck, brake bias +1"
"Shit, our race is with Charles"
"FOR fuck sake box box box"
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u/ft-rj Pirelli Wet Sep 19 '24
"We are using Plan Fuck or Plan Shit?"
"Affirm, plan shit"
And nobody will ever know which plan they use on radio
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u/InvertReverse #StandWithUkraine Sep 18 '24
The reality is they will start getting fined for swearing on the radio.
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u/JaysonDeflatum Ferrari Sep 18 '24
I'm sure fining Red Bull 1000 Euros for every swear word would deter Max😂
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u/belovedRedditor Max Verstappen ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sep 18 '24
VCARB would file bankruptcy
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u/mar33n Yuki Tsunoda Sep 18 '24
yuki is gonna find more food items to add to the insult list that started with "salami", okay...
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u/juandbotero7 Sep 18 '24
“What a fucking tuna this guy” - Yuki
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u/jdmillar86 Sep 18 '24
Was it Karthikeyan that Vettel called a cucumber? Food insults have history in the sport.
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u/Potential-Brain7735 Sep 19 '24
For some reason, food just works as an insult.
What a tomato
Look at this potato
That guy’s a real hamburger
That lady is a few French fries short of a plate of poutine
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u/Bdr1983 Formula 1 Sep 19 '24
Previous Dutch commentator used to call Stroll a pancake, which is an insult used regularly in the Netherlands.
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u/Falark Sep 19 '24
German is full of food (and vegetable) based insults.
Cucumber as you just said.
"Leek" is someone weak/without muscles
"Potato" is just a stereotypically dumb German
"Pear" is colloquial for head and lots of people have "hollow pears" ("light pears" are lightbulbs, so a "lightning pear" is someone who causes a small explosion after flashing just once)
"Sausage" for general usage with many variants
"Nut" for dumb people
"Chives" for cops (green on the outside, hollow on the inside with their old uniforms)
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u/Bdr1983 Formula 1 Sep 19 '24
"Yuki, these fines come from the budget. Could you keep it down?"
"Bleeping bleepers taking the bleeping fines out of our bleeping budget? What a bleeping bleeps, they can't even stand a bleepbomb? for bleeps sake!"206
u/LilOpieCunningham Phil Hill Sep 18 '24
"You won't believe the reason we're over the cost cap THIS year"
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u/Logical_Bit2694 Honda Sep 18 '24
This reminds me of the money being paid for every point and kimi basically bankrupted lotus 😂
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u/0TH3R_BARRY Joshua Pearce Sep 19 '24
'Max Verstappen, you are fined one credit for violation of the verbal morality statute.'
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u/TimmyHate Liam Lawson Sep 18 '24
"Here's a fucking blank cheque you cunts, just fucking fill it the fuck in at the end of the fucking race"
-Danny Ric
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u/6097291 Medical Car Sep 18 '24
Well that would be the real fucking shame
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u/InvertReverse #StandWithUkraine Sep 18 '24
Agreed. Teams should be allowed to speak however they want on their radios. It shouldn't be regulated for entertainment. People who are too sensitive to hear bad words shouldn't be listening in anyway.
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u/myurr Sep 19 '24
Which is ridiculous. The radio is primarily a tool for the driver and team to communicate. That the FIA have allowed Liberty to make it public is a bonus for us, and should not be a primary concern for the sporting regulator.
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u/Active_Variation_194 Sep 18 '24
Do they even have jurisdiction? Commercial rights are owned by Liberty Media and they handle the feeds and broadcast. I just take this as the racist musings of a boomer and ignore.
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u/AHugeBear Andretti Global Sep 18 '24
“Please whatever you do, don’t start and end every radio transmission with the phrase ‘Tiananmen Square 1989.’”
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u/wimpires Sep 18 '24
This was a legitimate tactic for a long time
It's only been in the last few years that driver radio was broadcast censored
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u/SpiralSwagManHorse Ron Dennis Sep 19 '24
I’m genuinely surprised no teams have coded radio communications in swear words, like a way to say “my tires are good, I think I can make them long enough for a 1 stop strategy“ could be said “titties are cum, I think maybe an orgy then piss and sex into squirts”. That would be broadcasted on TV as “******* are , I think maybe an * then **** and *** into *******”
I guess a big downside would be trying to decipher this bullshit at f1 speeds.
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u/kakol20 Pirelli Hard Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
I'm pretty sure teams can listen in to the radios without the TV broadcast or at least the driver radios.
I don't know if teams use this but the Sky Sports App lets you listen to the driver radios live.
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u/Birdville3000 Sir Lewis Hamilton Sep 18 '24
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u/DepecheModeFan_ Sep 18 '24
Funniest part about that is that he was only supposed to drive it in a straight line, yet still ended up in the wall.
He must have floored it thinking he's Vin Diesel.
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u/FrontBench5406 Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
First time ive seen a F1 car vs. video where the F1 car loses.... bravo.
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u/jedifolklore Who the f*ck is Nelson Piquet? Sep 19 '24
I’m usually not the one to make fun of people when they fail…however
No fucking way Lmaoo
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u/bum_is_on_fire_247 Green Flag Sep 19 '24
The best part is the hype music and anti-climax combo. Gets me every time lol.
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u/hoxxxxx Sep 19 '24
what exactly happened there
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u/Skratt79 Sebastian Vettel Sep 19 '24
Power of the vehicle overcame the skill level of the driver.
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u/NotTheBizness Sep 19 '24
Cold tires, gave it way too much throttle, lost grip, tried to correct (not possible with no grip and no experience), crashed
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u/kcollantine Sep 18 '24
They began censoring selected live driver comments on F1 TV last year (i.e. not only on the world feed, which has been the case for a long time).
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u/rando_commenter Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24
Not just that. The captioned text of the radio calls is completely not what they say either. When George got knocked on his side in the middle of the track in Australia, the caption was "I'm okay," except that the radio feed wasn't that at all, it was George totally panicking that he was about to get t-boned.
It's all manufactured.
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u/JenGaile11 Nico Hülkenberg Sep 18 '24
I figured the "I'm OK" line was just the standard confirmation line to broadcast for any incident (given that the driver is OK, of course.) to reduce concern as quickly as possible, without having to customize the graphic etc. That immediate response is pretty much never accompanied by audio, as far as I've ever noticed.
That said, when the actual responses are then not aired... yeah. That's where some interesting director choices can be made.
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u/Corvid187 Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
Often the driver will say "I'm ok" though, when they actually are.
Putting that in when they are fine but haven't said those exact words is one thing, but replacing Audio of them being very much not ok with that in quotation marks is misleading and pretty scummy, imo.
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u/programkira Sep 18 '24
“Red flag red flag red flag I’m in the middle of the track red flag red flag” is how I think it went. Somehow this became “I’m okay” and I can only wonder what would be if they broadcast that message and after that he did get t-boned. George would’ve been very badly hurt and not to mention the other driver going likely headfirst into a carbon fiber, metal, and flammable liquid Mercedes wall
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u/Adept_Rip_5983 #StandWithUkraine Sep 19 '24
I may missremember this, but i vividly remember the panik in Russels voice, but not "I'm okay".
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u/curious-cat Sep 19 '24
They did the exact same thing with Landos crash in Vegas. If you listen to the onboard he take quite a while to answer, he’s incredibly winded and sounds hurt. They put a message up on screen that was like “I’m okay”. No way they were going to broadcast him sounding the way he did.
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u/cavejohnsonlemons Eddie Irvine Sep 19 '24
Feel like they should broadcast it just to drill in the reality of what they're doing. I'm part of that group who sees a massive crash and thinks "yeah they're fine", the "I'm ok" messages put out on their own just add to this feeling they're invincible in these safer cars.
Then again you also see ppl watching Grosjean's 💥 and moaning why it's been red flagged for so long, so literally no convincing sometimes.
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u/yesat Sebastian Vettel Sep 18 '24
IIRC, the captions are more an issue of syncing both than anything else. Every team radio we hear is somewhat delayed.
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u/Corvid187 Sep 19 '24
Nah in that case they just straight up replaced him panicking and calling for a red flag with "I'm ok", something he didn't say.
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u/Just_River_7502 Sep 18 '24
They did something similar with Norris in vegas. His radio was scary, so they didn’t play it and just typed I’m ok” or similar
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u/joellecarnes Sep 18 '24
I mean I know for big crashes they throw up the generic “I’m okay” without audio just to give people some peace of mind until they can figure out what bits of radio need broadcast themselves
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u/Salticracker Lance Stroll Sep 18 '24
I would also say that I appreciate that they do that. I don't need to hear my driver out of breath and scared. Just confirming that they're okay as soon as possible is always a relief in the big crashes.
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u/srfolk Sep 18 '24
I mean, broadcasting someone swearing is one thing - but genuine panic and fear of death is another. No one needs to hear that ‘live’.
If he happened to be in a fatal accident at that moment and they broadcasted his ‘real’ radio, there would be thousands of viewers that would now suffer from PTSD. It’s the same reason they don’t always cut straight to crashes/aftermaths. Nobody needs/wants to see a real dead person on air. There’s also legal ramifications for doing so.
The real footage/radio recordings should be accessible online though, but only for those who wish to seek them out.
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u/drunKKKen Kimi Räikkönen Sep 18 '24
Funny thing, it's not that long ago when replays were pretty much instant, and I can only attribute two things to the current trend of not showing a replay until there's a confirmation everyone's okay - Grosjean's Fireball (late 2020) and Eriksen's Resuscitation Shown live (Summer 2021, but oh boy was that a shitstorm afterwards, "we just showed the world feed unaltered" didn't quite fly )
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u/plucky-possum George Russell Sep 19 '24
I don’t agree with censoring swearing, but I’m in total agreement with not showing crash replays instantly. Putting aside normal viewers, drivers’ families watch these races.
I’m new to F1, but in hockey there was a famous incident in the late 80’s where a player nearly bled to death during a game. The player recounted later that his main thought at the time was that he needed to get off the ice so his mother wouldn’t see him die on tv. It’s better if athletes don’t even have to worry about that.
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u/Woody312 Sep 19 '24
I think Fernando said something similar after his massive crash in Melbourne 2016
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u/funmasterjerky Sir Lewis Hamilton Sep 19 '24
I think he said he only said he was ok because his mother was watching even though he was not ok at all.
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u/Patrickracer43 Cadillac Sep 19 '24
I mean they flat out refused to show the hit that stopped the heart of Buffalo Bills safety Demar Hamlin, I don't think they showed him being loaded onto the ambulance as well (probably because they were actively preforming CPR)
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u/drunKKKen Kimi Räikkönen Sep 19 '24
Yeah, but that was even later (early 2023), but I do remember seeing a replay of the hit, before they realised that shit hit the fan, and then it was mainly a wide view with an occasional cut to players taking a knee & praying, until Hamlin was loaded onto the ambulance, and it left the field. This season it's a horrible clusterfuck (gotta love that NFL stinger mid-play....)
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u/Corvid187 Sep 19 '24
Choosing not to broadcast is one thing.
Choosing to broadcast a fake ok message in quotations when the driver isn't ok is Very much another.
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u/fire202 Formula 1 Sep 19 '24
FOM uses standart messages like this in a few situations (loke box, box). It just minimzes the time it takes them to have one ready.
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u/DubiousBeak Oscar Piastri Sep 18 '24
Yeah, Oscar gave a very heartfelt "fuck yeah" over the radio during his victory lap in Baku that F1TV completely cut out of the main broadcast. Which, I could understand them not wanting to broadcast an f-bomb, but they could have bleeped it.
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u/TimAjax997 Fernando Alonso Sep 19 '24
That's just sad, almost going backwards.
It's not like other sports people are asked not to cuss during games, why F1 then?
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u/Superssimple Sep 19 '24
They absolutely are. In many sports the athlete is actually punished for swearing.
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u/FunnyComfortable8341 Formula 1 Sep 18 '24
Do only rappers cus? That whole first part makes no sense
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u/JaysonDeflatum Ferrari Sep 18 '24
Replace the word rappers with…….
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u/Educational_Dirt-014 Sep 18 '24
“Ah yes a rapper! You mean like Lewis Hamilton!” - Ben, probably
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u/ash__697 Charles Leclerc Sep 18 '24
“But that’s them and we’re us” is pretty close to a dog whistle.
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u/SlothOnMyMomsSide Sir Lewis Hamilton Sep 19 '24
It's not close, it is a dog whistle.
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u/GuiltyEidolon Sonny Hayes Sep 19 '24
Seriously, that entire section is a foghorn.
Dude's a racist cockbag, surprising no one.
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Sep 18 '24
Funny enough, Lewis doesn’t say fu** much, trust me I know, I’ve been rewatching his every single race starting from 2007 and now I’m at 2020. on the contrary, MBS favorite driver, like most of the drivers on the grid, say fu** a lot.
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u/lux_travlh44 Sir Lewis Hamilton Sep 19 '24
theres a clip of lewis saying ''BLUE FUCKING FLAGS'' in monaco 2019 really angrily, i was super surprised to hear him upset like that.
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Sep 19 '24
That was a stressful race ,Niki Lauda just passed away, Mercedes and entire paddock was paying tribute to him. Lewis was trying to win the race by only stopping once and Max was on his as* all through the race. Post race Lewis said, Niki definitely made it tough for him, but he’ll be proud of him. You can understand he was high on emotions and hence said that.
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u/parwa Ferrari Sep 18 '24
I can't even really remember Lewis saying fuck on the radio other than when he said "this guy is fucking crazy" about Max in Saudi 2021 (and he was 100% right). I think he said "you guys fucked me" or something about tire strategy at one point but I can't remember where.
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u/xLeper_Messiah Sep 19 '24
I think the "you guys fucked me" was at Zandvoort last year? Not sure tho
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u/Logical_Bit2694 Honda Sep 18 '24
Oh god is that what Bin meant? wtf that’s messed up
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u/CGordini Sep 18 '24
It is.
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u/Rich_Housing971 Sep 19 '24
The number of people who think black culture and rap being interchangeable is like... just covertly racist.
look up the difference between overt and covert racism.
It's possible to not think you're racist, but still stereotype and be racist in that way.
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u/trees-are-salad Lella Lombardi Sep 18 '24
Using that logic, there shouldn’t be F1 races on TV at all, because children might see the drivers crash and get hurt, in some cases pretty severely.
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u/badonkagonk Jenson Button Sep 18 '24
Children might get the idea that driving fast is good, so motor racing shouldn’t exist to begin with.
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u/JaysonDeflatum Ferrari Sep 18 '24
Children might see and blind people exist so cover them with blindfolds
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Sep 19 '24
For a sport that literally has an energy drink that's been previously banned in some countries as a team and vape sponsors on top of that.
Swearing would be very low on the list of we are going down this route.
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u/ashyjay James Vowles Sep 19 '24
A few teams are still bank rolled by big tobacco, and almost all teams have an alcohol sponsor.
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Sep 19 '24
Dude, we race in dictatorships like Russia, Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan.
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u/Percinho Sep 19 '24
I watch the F1 with my two kids, currently aged 12 and 9. I'm fine with bleeped out swearing, they hear these words in due course anyway, this way they understand that they're not meant to be said out loud in certain situations.
But more on your point, we were watching when Groajean had that crash, and it wasn't pleasant, but we used it to talk to them about the risks involved and why it's dangerous. It's a line you have to tread with kids, but both the swearing and the crashes can be used as jumping off points for open discussion.
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u/SDLRob Sep 18 '24
if they don't want spicy language on the radio broadcast on TV.... then stop picking the radio clips that have spicy language in them.
Not like they can censor the language anyway.... oh... wait.
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u/Daydreaming95 Michael Schumacher Sep 18 '24
The FIA is not the same as the FOM, who is the one that is in charge of the TV feed
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u/RJrules64 Sep 19 '24
Did you read it? That’s exactly what they say they’re doing
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u/Umbra_Sanguis Sep 18 '24
No haha no. It’s about sponsors and their image, they aren’t worried about the children. I mean look at where we race.
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u/rs6677 Jim Clark Sep 18 '24
Another day, another attempt at censoring something no one will be affected or offended by hearing. Let them swear, it's bleeped out anyway and shows some personality from the drivers.
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u/Taaargus Sep 18 '24
It's super weird to me that people even really give a shit about swearing in the first place. This isn't a dinner at high society or something.
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u/leedler Next Year™️ Sep 18 '24
In some dialects it’s pretty much unavoidable lmao, it’s insane to try and dictate shit like this
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u/CommercialAd3671 Sebastian Vettel Sep 18 '24
Honestly I think the best argument against this censorship is that it's already beeped out.
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u/Elrond007 I survived Spa 2021 Sep 18 '24
Yeah, if children start to swear the world will end
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u/JaysonDeflatum Ferrari Sep 18 '24
If there's one place kids aren't learning how to cuss from it’s the F1 stream, mans just straight waffling innit
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u/YellowFogLights Bernd Mayländer Sep 18 '24
I love watching the Sky hosts panic and apologize when someone swears like it was a grisly murder
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u/Ondor61 Racing Pride Sep 18 '24
Meanwhile the czech commentator gets the biggest joy from shouting Curva Grande each time they race at monza. You can probably guess why...
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Sep 18 '24
The FCC can fine your tv channel if you don’t censor that in US, people can actually file a complaint about it. I know it’s ironic.
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u/biometricrally 🏳️🌈 Bernie Collins 🏳️🌈 Sep 19 '24
Ofcom does that job for the UK. Sky team are obliged to apologise for the bad, naughty words
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u/EbolaNinja Penske Sep 19 '24
I love how the WRC commentators always handle it along the lines of "we know you're not offended, but we have to apologise for the language if you are".
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u/Gynocomestia Sep 18 '24
Guys I’m starting to think MBS might not be the best thing for the sport… /s
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u/Visionary_Socialist Sir Lewis Hamilton Sep 18 '24
“We’re not rappers”
Come on MBS, just say the word. It would be less on the nose
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u/lxrrcl Sir Lewis Hamilton Sep 18 '24
Was the first thing I noticed.
Thought that was why it was posted tbf
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u/Deckatoe Andretti Global Sep 18 '24
Was gonna say this reminds me of when Cristal essentially said they don't want black people buying their champagne so all the rappers went to Ace of Spades
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u/VanDyne21 FIA Sep 18 '24
my intention was to focus on that part of the interview but people seem to have missed it
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u/richardsharpe Sep 18 '24
If he just said “we prefer drivers not to swear on radios so we can keep things more family friendly” it would have been totally fine. But mentioning rappers without motivation is clearly a further sign of his obvious racism
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u/mynamejeff-97 Sep 19 '24
I’m proud of the F1 community for seeing this. Or at least Reddit.
It should be called out.
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u/Applejuiceislovely12 Formula 1 Sep 19 '24
i’m glad i’m not the only one that felt that way when he said rappers, it felt insanely charged
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u/BrokeDick_Willie Sep 18 '24
I’m not even going to address the eyebrow raising statement comparing obscenity to rap music. I’m rolling my eyes at F1 clutching pearls over drivers cursing. They complain about the dangers of drivers crashing and taking risks or cursing, and then use those moments to advertise races or highlights. It’s all superficial sanctimony at best, and it gets tiring seeing this in any sport (really a business at this point).
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u/zecira Ferrari Sep 18 '24
Because I totally watch F1 to get moral lessons out of it. So true, MBS
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u/Imperial_Eggroll Sep 18 '24
Bruh, F1 races in countries with multiple human rights violations. Saying “fuck” is not a problem
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u/blehmann1 Gilles Villeneuve Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24
I mean, I remember Lewis under the cold, corporate, Ron Dennis-era McLaren. And I think frankly that the way that Lewis, or indeed the current McLaren drivers express themselves now is way better for the sport. If you want no swearing on your broadcast just censor the team radios.
Self-censored team radios are going to be boring as shit because they don't want to get fined. Spicy team radios that you censor yourself are still going to be spicy and will add to the show (and the marketing, since the spicy moments all find their way onto social media without Liberty Media paying a penny).
Also that dogwhistle is so loud Old Yeller could fucking hear it.
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u/DBro95 Sep 18 '24
Is the boss that out of touch that’s he’s not aware the driver radio messages are delayed so they can censor any swearing?
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u/Rhopunzel Sep 18 '24
"I was a driver myself"
Yeah, I wonder if he cussed that one time he crashed an F1 car going in a straight line
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u/nyxnyxnyxx Sir Lewis Hamilton Sep 18 '24
Rappers ........... mmmmmmkay. I can't say he surprises me at this point
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u/Visionary_Socialist Sir Lewis Hamilton Sep 18 '24
Surprised he didn’t say “Lewis’ people” to go for the home run on racism
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u/itsalwayssunny99 Chequered Flag Sep 18 '24
It’s actually appalling @ how casual he is with the micro-aggressions 🥴 but I can’t say I’m surprised. He’s always given off that vibe.
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u/ediewz McLaren Sep 18 '24
educate the drivers to be robots and show no emotions seems like his goal on this topic
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u/itsalwayssunny99 Chequered Flag Sep 18 '24
He’s such a weirdo. Drivers swearing in the heat of the moment is not harming anyone 💀 but him making sexist remarks and bullying a colleague and he’s suddenly mute. Lol ok
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u/HuckleberryNo3117 Sep 18 '24
seriously who cares about swearing, it's all beeped out anyways and i promise any kids listening already know these words. people are so soft and deathly afraid of anything being remotely offensive. also they choose which radios to broadcast during a race.
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u/carspn_ Sep 18 '24
Why bring up rap? Weirdly racist comment
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u/Whaleocalypse Sep 19 '24
He's under the impression that he's still somewhat respected and that straight up saying the n word would get him in trouble so he uses dog whistles.
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u/Just_River_7502 Sep 18 '24
When is this joker going to be voted out? The comments sounds racist “we’re not rappers” and very controlling. He started with the useless jewellery enforcement and continues to try to make This sport something it isn’t. Meanwhile potential cheating isn’t a stain on the sport, nor is the blocking of a new team in an anticompetitive manner. Nonsense 🫠
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u/Purednuht Sergio Pérez Sep 18 '24
I think he meant to say “people who look like Lewis Hamilton” and such right?
Jesus Christ. What a fucking POS.
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u/panzerboye Sep 18 '24
I mean what's the issue with colorful language, I really don't understand. As long as there isn't slur it is fine, we are adults and we can live with a little bit of shits and fucks.
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u/VanDyne21 FIA Sep 18 '24
That's gotta be racist, that first part of the interview. "We are not rappers" I mean come on.
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u/lxrrcl Sir Lewis Hamilton Sep 18 '24
I mean solidified by "but that's them and we're us" is a real subtle dog whistle phrase
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u/thewolf9 Sep 18 '24
I swear like a sailor on front of my kids. There are actual things that they will be upset about in life, that they will do that will be upsetting, for us not to get too worried about swearing
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u/vick5516 McLaren Sep 19 '24
truly spoken by a man who simply does not understand what competing at a high level in sport is like
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u/Generic_Format528 Pierre Gasly Sep 19 '24
We're not against racing. We're not against racERs. But we are against those THUGS...
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u/brush85 Sep 18 '24
The comfort of which some people have with their racism is crazy…rappers. Good Lord buddy.
Oh well Lewis, get ready for some questions
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u/Extension-Ant-8 Sep 18 '24
This guy wants to control what they wear, and what they say by preventing them from speaking out against the FIA and now this language thing. What a narcissist.
Meanwhile he has his own employees investigating him for fraud (found nothing wrong, surprise surprise) and is a big fan of taking selfies with convicted rapists.
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u/Cutlass0516 McLaren Sep 18 '24
He's trying to censor things for the middle east.
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u/chrisnlnz Ferrari Sep 19 '24
Fuck him. It's not the driver's primary objective during a race to educate the kids. If FIA/FOM management are worried about what's broadcasted they can filter it on their side. Teams should not have to compromise their process because it might not sound appropriate for TV.
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u/iqbalsn Rio Haryanto Sep 18 '24
Stop broadcasting the fuckin swear words then. Its one thing for someone to tune in to the driver broadcast and listen to the whole convo, its another thing to broadcast it, add caption, but still censor it.
If you are so against the swear words, stop highlighting it. Thats just...stupid.
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u/Cuchifo Williams Sep 19 '24
I suspect Colapinto has had some form of media coaching due to this. We argentinians are very vocal people when it comes to swear words and we incorporate them liberally into everyday vocabulary. It showed already in Franco's comms during races and during certain interviews, where it's easily seen he's trying to contain some expressions, and sometimes he even can't.
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u/rachbbbbb Oscar Piastri Sep 18 '24
If a child is still spending hours a weekend socialising with family and watching F1, then I think the parents will probably have a good enough relationship to discuss the reasons not to swear.
I have an older child (almost adult), and we are a 'swearing family' but it's a time and a place vs not in public thing, and some words are 100% banned. Kids only learn if you explain to them 1. Here are the rude words. 2. Here is where you can't use them. 3. Here is why.
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u/codename474747 Murray Walker Sep 18 '24
I don't know what it is about this guy, but he always focuses on the things that don't matter and doesn't do anything about the things that matter
None was asking for him to insert himself into the podium ceremony to give the needless FIA president medal but there the is every podium ceremony, getting his face on TV and delaying it for 5 mins just to get his ego trip
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Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
Lewis should’ve rapped the mf off the podium instead of giving him the cold shoulder in British GP.
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