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I do think there are some things to take into account.
Lewis and Sulayem have history and Lewis clearly has no time for the man, I also feel Lewis is doing a little virtue signalling to serve this cause. Nothing really wrong with that per se as he has an axe to grind. Also Sulayem has lived his entire life a billionaire, he knows nothing of the real outside world so was probably making a flippant remark with less knowledge than some, it is certainly true this music contains a huge amount of swearing and attitude towards a lot of people that is awful, too much for most peoples ears and he is right to make the point that drivers should not be doing it where possible. For Lewis to take that as a smite against black people for me a little pathetic sorry. |
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Max pushes back against the FIA for penalising him by saying very little in the FIA press conference and then staged his own press conference outside later.
Lewis & Lando take Max's side in the FIA press conference. Really feels like MBS in particular, & the FIA in general is turning a molehill into a mountain here and urinating into the wind - just all seems utterly pointless. Maybe, being a "man in white dress" MBS really HAS had little exposure to the levels of swearing in the western world these days - TV, movies etc. all feature more than used to be the case but then general life does too (although, as an Australian, I've been told before that we tend to swear a lot compared to some other countries). Regardless though, it seems a strange hill to want to die on and I don't think that handing out penalties is the smart way to go at all - makes it all seem so pettifogging and "jobsworth". |
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Normally I'd agree with the drivers here. Mic up a football player during a match and you won't get anything better.
However, that isn't what happened here. Max swore during a press conference and was asked not to. It wasn't heat of the moment. It wasn't a high pressure incident. He just called his car sh*t. He then tried to parrot the excellent Vettel speech about drivers being held to too high a standard (in terms of language), which was completely out of context. Press conferences are designed purely to be on TV/Socials and broadcast able. By doing what he did, he made it unboradcastable. This isn't like a race where they can just choose too not play that bit of radio and nobody would notice. He was asked politely not to swear and then had an incoherent rant about it. Swearing in the car: no problem. This is what happens under pressure Swearing in a press conference: you're just being childish. You can go a few minutes without swearing. Similar to what Tourer said, I'm Scottish. We swear a lot. It's what we do. But I manage not to swear in work meetings, because I'm a grown up. |
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There is of course a child friendly broadcast if anyone is genuinely that worried about people swearing on television.
Censoring drivers, whether it’s over language choice or their beliefs on social issues, is not the way to deal with things imo. |
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I'm not really thinking about censoring drivers or worrying about children hearing something they shouldn't, I'm thinking about what it says about the speaker. For my part, it makes him look a bit of a twonk.
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Put it on a delay, bleep it out, and make it usable then. They have the technology!
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If that is true, then how have they been broadcasting races in those places all these past years then?
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Petty penalties may hasten Max's departure from F1.
Must admit that when they announced the penalty against Carlos, I did wonder if the FIA had decreed some kind of crack down, when viewed in concert with Max's penalty for swearing in a press conference. Yes, I know that other drivers have been pinged previously for crossing a "live" track but I also think that not enough allowance for circumstances is made by stewards at times. For sure, crossing a live track CAN be extremely dangerous, and I must admit that I cringe at times when they do it (shades of Tom Pryce) but crossing a track under red flag conditions is VERY different, AND the section of track he was on was after the pit lane entry, so no cars would come through there AND he was able to wait at the pit entry for a gap in the slow moving car train. Just feels like the FIA (or maybe it's just the prez) is over-playing its hand here. |
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Considering how much of a golden egg Drive to Survive has been for F1 and the FIA, which repeatedly uses F and C bombs, to make Max do community service for saying one of the words you hear about 47 times an episode is nothing short of hilarious.
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I think there is shared blame here. I think it's valid to call out Max (or whoever) for maybe considering using more appropriate language in planned interviews. I don't think it's about "being an adult", etc. but more about professional behavior. In that labelling foul language as inappropriate (generally) is an external judgment being placed on someone. Who is to say who is right? But again, he is in a professional setting and the interviews are planned. I think in that professional setting, it's much more clear as to "what is expected".
While in-car comments are not really part of the discussion, I am fine with whatever language they use on the radio. Some outbursts (regardless of language) is not helpful to the driver or team, but that is another topic. In short, we are spying in on nominally "private" conversations. It is up to the TV director to pick and choose radio transmissions. I think maybe the only exception is something like F1TV in which you can listen in to driver radio. I don't know if that is 100% unfiltered (i.e. ALL audio it broadcast with team not being able to turn it off if they want). It seems like everything is available in real time for broadcast via in-car view. Anyhow, I tend to think... let them say what they want on the radio. For the live radio (in-car view) just set expectation that language might be rough. My solution for this would be to put in place a broadcast delay/deferred live/profanity delay, or whatever you call it in place for the planned media interviews. While mentioned earlier that his might be illegal, I can't imagine any reason it would be and would love to see examples. I mean the broadcasts are already edited while "live" by what they choose to show the viewer (both visual and audio), so why would beeping profanity be any different than that? Podium celebrations, cool down room, etc. might be a slightly different beast that may or may not be good targets for a delay. If I were FOM/FIA, I would impress upon the drivers to try to keep it clean and professional in specific scenarios. That just because there might be a delay that can bleep out audio, don't rely upon it. That it is a last resort option. They can't expect drivers to 100% not let something occasionally fly. I think if they work to partner with drivers they can prevent drivers from feeling they are being censored. Negative comments on F1 partners like Pirelli would also be a tough nut to crack. They just need to find a way to let the drivers express themselves even if some controls are put in place. Right now it just feels heavy handed. I think MBS has attacked this in a way that might make sense if those you are trying to control are both fully under your thumb and also disposable to you. You don't like my rules, well then no problem, I will find someone who will! That might work if you are controlling the "commoners", but when the drivers are very much the stars, this (public lashing) is the wrong approach. The drivers are NOT disposable. Especially when it is so easy for someone like Max to equally troll back to the FIA (like was done this weekend). This is why I place more blame on MBS for what I could say is ham-handed/clumsy handling of this (among other things he touches). Richard |
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I love that, with authority, you say this is made up. Meanwhile in the UK this is precisely the case. The bleep exists for live delays and situations where it's not possible to completely cut out the swearing (although muting also occurs). However, as defined by Ofcom, you can't just take stuff with swearing and play it willy-nilly with bleeps and say it's ok. You're expected to edit out the entire section of the swearing unless it's required for context or unavoidable for broadcasting. We even have rules on maximum number of swear words in X minutes of broadcasting - something our panel shows regularly get heavy editing for when broadcast. I'm very sorry that you don't like this and think it's made up. Someone else said well theres child content for F1, and that's what they should watch. But if everyone acted like Max then the child content for F1 would have literally no driver interviews because they all thing they're so cool and edgy because they said a bad word. Maybe he should just trying being a grown up and it'd have caused much less fuss. Now he's created a situation for himself to manage when he should be concentrating on a world championship - something which doesn't look certain for him for the first time in a while. All because he wanted to be an edge lord. Max is going to make a therapist extremely rich one day. |
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If we lose Max and Jos, it will be no loss to the sport. Lots of people willing to take his job!
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Same here - the more I read it, the more I laughed. There are some pearlers in there!
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