Scuderia Ferrari Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc has urged the FIA to prioritize extra essential points following the “swear-gate” controversy in Singapore. FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been pushing for a discount in swearing from drivers throughout broadcasts, which led to the three-time System 1 world champion receiving a neighborhood service penalty after utilizing specific language in a press convention. This adopted Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s earlier feedback stressing the significance of curbing such conduct.
The Dutchman responded by boycotting the Singapore post-qualifying FIA press convention, as an alternative gathering journalists in a separate setting. After the Marina Bay occasion, he hinted that the continuing controversy might even speed up his retirement from F1.
Lewis Hamilton labeled Max Verstappen’s penalty as “a joke” and inspired him to reject it, although he supported Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s broader name to cut back swearing. Nevertheless, Hamilton added a critique, stating what he perceived as a “racial factor” within the FIA president’s comparability of drivers to rappers. Charles Leclerc, set to develop into the teammate of Lewis Hamilton within the Italian facet ranging from the 2025 System 1 marketing campaign, additionally supported the push for cleaner language however expressed that the FIA needs to be specializing in extra urgent issues.
“I believe there are different priorities for the FIA to take a look at, for the time being,” – the Ferrari driver defined – “We’re adults on the finish, and we’re one of many solely sports activities the place we hear the motive force communicate in the course of the precise race. I’d return the favour to the FIA to ask them to perhaps take out a few of our unhealthy phrases and never broadcast it as a lot. It’s one thing fairly straightforward to do. For us to manage our phrases if you end up driving a automotive at 300kph between partitions on a avenue monitor, it’s fairly difficult. We’re people in spite of everything, so I don’t see it as a lot of a precedence for now.” Scuderia Ferrari Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc identified.
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