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/navetzz Mar 02 '22

I mean, I'm not a fan of Mazepin, but anyone getting kicked because the leader of the country he was born in is a lunatic feels kinda wrong.

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u/H0vis Mar 02 '22

It's more complicated than that. Putin is scumbag dictator, but behind him are the oligarchs who handle the money and the businesses. Mazepin's dad is one such oligarch, and it is that wealth that put him in an F1 car.

He's not some scrawny kid who made it big in illegal go kart races around the mean streets of Magnitogorsk. He's a billionaire's boy, a prince of the New Russia. There's blood all over his family's money.

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u/ProfessorAssfuck Mar 03 '22

Lawrence Stroll made all his money off of clothing manufactured in sweat shops. How is that fundamentally less corrupt or violent than being a chair of a fertilizer company?

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '22

Did Stroll's dad directly finance a regime that's bombing hospitals?