F1 drivers learned about FIA’s new swearing penalties via media
F1 drivers found o🉐ut about the FIA's updated misconduct rules through the media, it has been ♋claimed.
F1 drivers found out about the FIA’s new misconduct rules via reports in the media, th🔴e chairman of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (GPDA) has claimed.
Earlier this month it emerged that F1 driv𒉰ers could face points deductions or even bans if they repeatedly swear or criticise the sport’s governing body the FIA.
൩The FIA mapped out the new sanctions for misconduct in the latest version of the International Sporting Code.
The changes have been brought in after reigning world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen was ordered to “accomplish some work of public in✨terest” at the end of 2024 for using an expletive during an FIA press conference 🅘at last year’s Singapore Grand Prix.
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been vꦡocal in wanting a ban on F1 driver swearing.
But 𒀰according to former F1 driver and GPDA chairman Alex Wurz, drivers were not consulted b🐠y the FIA prior to the changes being made public.
"There was no c🐈onsultation," the Austrian is quoted as saying by . "We have read that through the media.
"Could be room f♏or improvement that we [the FIA and the GPDA] are working out [these things] together.
"If there's a comparison with, for example, the NFL in America, they do have unionisation of NFL players, and they💦 a༺re involved in the process.
"In this case, we are not 😼involved. I'm not sure if the FIA has involved their own FIA drivers' commission. That's something I don't know about.
"Let's hope that we don't have many fin💖es being🎶 collected.”
Wurz added that the GPDA has not yet been 👍able to meet to discuss the new rules.
"We h𓃲ave not managed to get together," he added. "Drivers are in a very busy period, I don't want to stress them.
"It's🅰 in the rules. It's not something we can change🐽 on an ad hoc basis.
"Of course, we're going to get together. We'll then conveneཧ and discuss what we are doing and what our course of action is.
"The best action is not to swear. Quite simple.”
understands🧔 Wurz’s claims 🌊that the GPDA were not involved by the FIA in the process are correct.
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