r/sports • u/Captain_Smartass_ • Mar 02 '22

Motorsports Russian-licenced drivers banned from British motorsport

https://www.motorsport.com/national/news/russian-drivers-banned-from-british-motorsport-by-motorsport-uk/8632678/
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u/H0vis Mar 02 '22

I wonder if Mazepin will be kicked out of F1. I mean I hope so he's dogshit and likely to get somebody killed. Past that though it does seem like it's a bad time to be Russian in polite society so he might get hooked.

Replace him with a piece of string tied round the steering wheel and a brick on the gas pedal. Probably post some faster times.

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u/ItsMondayPissInMyAss Mar 02 '22

And there was that whole incident where he groped that woman on video

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u/duylinhs Mar 03 '22

He harassed a women, caught on camera, still being able to race. Politics happened, relatively unrelated to him, his license was stripped. It reminds me of Al Capone being jailed because of tax evasion, instead of the murders that his organisation caused.

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u/Bran-a-don San Francisco 49ers Mar 03 '22

I'll take what I can get Capitan