Motorsport Off Topic Thread

This surprised me. The minimum driver weight is a lot higher than I expected.

The minimum driver weight limit of 80kg (12st 8lb) is increasing to 82kg (12st 12lb) next season, to help the taller drivers.
You only need to look how skinny George Russell is to know the minimum weight needed increased but 4lb isn't a lot.
 
How does Yuki weight over 80kg? :p

The swearing this is silly. No need to swear in the press conferences in my mind, but when you’re driving at 300km/hr with adrenaline buzzing and literally at the top of your physical capacity I think it’s entirely fair to expect some choice language at times.

More importantly I can’t see why it’s such a problem to the FIA. The channels can bleep it, delay broadcast etc. They know what they need to do as with any live event. It’s not rocket science.
 
How does Yuki weight over 80kg? :p

The swearing this is silly. No need to swear in the press conferences in my mind, but when you’re driving at 300km/hr with adrenaline buzzing and literally at the top of your physical capacity I think it’s entirely fair to expect some choice language at times.

More importantly I can’t see why it’s such a problem to the FIA. The channels can bleep it, delay broadcast etc. They know what they need to do as with any live event. It’s not rocket science.
Agreed, a broadcaster is the one who has the commitments to ofcom (in this country) as far as I'm aware, not the sport.

Sure the point about 'selling the sport to the broadcaster' is true and with a totally clean broadcast there's no additional work for them to do which is going to be more appealing, but surely with any live feed they're monitoring it for suprise events anyway?
 
Agreed, a broadcaster is the one who has the commitments to ofcom (in this country) as far as I'm aware, not the sport.

Sure the point about 'selling the sport to the broadcaster' is true and with a totally clean broadcast there's no additional work for them to do which is going to be more appealing, but surely with any live feed they're monitoring it for suprise events anyway?
F1 send out the broadcast; Sky, for example, just talk over it. The F1 team does all of the work so it doesn’t factor into the selling.

Even if that weren’t the case, they’re not going to pass up on rights to broadcast the sport if all they had to do was pay an intern to bleep the odd message.
 
Anyone collect 1: 43/24/18 model f1 cars.

What's best sites to get from?

Wanting to collect a car from each of Hamiltons seasons

@SDK^ does I think..

 
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Have to say that Max is continuing his penchant for being a spoilt little brat. Get over it. You are paid absolutely insane money to drive a car. You can manage to speak without swearing in a press conference. If you can't then you need to have a look at yourself. Suggesting he might leave the sport because they don't want him swearing to the media. Get a grip you overpaid *****.
 
Anyone collect 1: 43/24/18 model f1 cars.

What's best sites to get from?

Wanting to collect a car from each of Hamiltons seasons

Diecast legends is good for new stuff

Many of Hamiltons cars from previous seasons are long out of manufacturing now (Cars are always limited runs), so eBay, or other used market places, are your best source.
Prices can also be high : £300+ for each 1/18 model, or £120+ for hard to find 1/43 cars.

I bought a 1/43 car for all of Hamilton F1 seasons (from the test car in 2006 up to 2024) and it cost about £950

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Have to say that Max is continuing his penchant for being a spoilt little brat. Get over it. You are paid absolutely insane money to drive a car. You can manage to speak without swearing in a press conference. If you can't then you need to have a look at yourself. Suggesting he might leave the sport because they don't want him swearing to the media. Get a grip you overpaid *****.

The only ones acting like spoilt brats are Mohammed bin Sulayem and the stewards enforcing community service when all Max said was 'As soon as I went into qualifying, I knew the car was ******,".

If the FIA hadn't thrown their toys out of the pram about drivers swearing over the radio then I'm sure this would all of been avoided. They're being unnecessarily petulant and it seems all the drivers are united on this. All the FIA needed to do was have a private word with the drivers as to what they expect in press conferences and that'd be the end of it. Now we're in full barbra streisand mode.


ps. Could you not swear in your posts please. Thanks.
 
Have to say that Max is continuing his penchant for being a spoilt little brat. Get over it. You are paid absolutely insane money to drive a car. You can manage to speak without swearing in a press conference. If you can't then you need to have a look at yourself. Suggesting he might leave the sport because they don't want him swearing to the media. Get a grip you overpaid *****.
Maybe lawn bowls is more your speed?
 
It's kind of funny seeing something so silly blow up like this because the FIA (well MBS) tried to be the morarilty police or some nonsense. I'm all for more teams/drivers chipping in and just having their own press venue each race (or rota which teams hospitality they host it in). It feels like one of those moves that ultimately the FIA can't reasonably get the whole paddock to enforce anyway so they can just all have some fun with this. They won't want to fracture any further their relationship with FOM over something so trivial (whom ultimately are responsible for the broadcast content and TV compliance, not the FIA)
 
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If the FIA hadn't thrown their toys out of the pram about drivers swearing over the radio then I'm sure this would all of been avoided. They're being unnecessarily petulant and it seems all the drivers are united on this. All the FIA needed to do was have a private word with the drivers as to what they expect in press conferences and that'd be the end of it. Now we're in full barbra streisand mode.


ps. Could you not swear in your posts please. Thanks.

Ahh yes, Max Verstappen is well known for sticking to the rules and doing what he is asked. Famous for it. Guy is a spoilt, overindulged idiot and seems to find new ways to show it every year.

Maybe lawn bowls is more your speed?

I don't even know what to say to this. Does swearing in the press conferences make the sport more exciting for you?
 
The whole thing seems like it's a symptom of wider discontent. FOM and FIA are unhappy with each other. BSM seems to rub everyone up the wrong way, and has done some stupid stuff, Liberty are pushing for more and more races which the drivers constantly object to. And so on.

The high-handed treatment of Max over this is merely another straw.

I don't even know what to say to this. Does swearing in the press conferences make the sport more exciting for you?

The sport is better when we get less filtered views from drivers, yes.
 
Ahh yes, Max Verstappen is well known for sticking to the rules and doing what he is asked. Famous for it. Guy is a spoilt, overindulged idiot and seems to find new ways to show it every year.

Max has been a racing driver for many many years and I don't recall any issues with swearing in press conferences. This simply was never an issue with the drivers before but then for some reason MBS decides that swearing on team radios is no longer acceptable and a big crackdown started. Both Toto and Fred Vasseur swore in the Vegas press conference last year, they received a warning and everyone just moved on. Are you going to bash them the same way you bash Max for swearing? Or is it because it's Max it's an easy excuse to have a rant about him?

Why did Max receive community service when others in the past just received a warning? Do you think community service was a sensible punishment for swearing once in a press conference?

All of the drivers are mocking the situation, that should tell you everything you need to know.
 
The sport is better when we get less filtered views from drivers, yes.

Less filtered doesn't mean they need to swear. Most people swear. Most people also manage to know when they can't swear in a professional environment. If you can't express your views without swearing then there is something wrong with you.

Max has been a racing driver for many many years and I don't recall any issues with swearing in press conferences.

So he can do them without swearing then can't he?

This simply was never an issue with the drivers before but then for some reason MBS decides that swearing on team radios is no longer acceptable and a big crackdown started.

Who knows why and honestly, who cares. If they don't like it and they make the rules then just suck it up and stop doing it. People do as much as they are allowed to get away with. I reckon that if there were serious punishments for swearing on the radio they would miraculously manage to stop doing it.


Both Toto and Fred Vasseur swore in the Vegas press conference last year, they received a warning and everyone just moved on. Are you going to bash them the same way you bash Max for swearing? Or is it because it's Max it's an easy excuse to have a rant about him?

If they decided to punish Toto and Vasseur and they kicked off about it I would be saying the same thing about them. And yes, I think Max is a massive *expletive deleted* but that doesn't mean I don't think F1 drivers in general are a bunch of primadonnas.

Why did Max receive community service when others in the past just received a warning? Do you think community service was a sensible punishment for swearing once in a press conference?

I assume because they have decided they don't want people swearing during F1 coverage going forwards. When they don't apply it even handedly going forwards then you can complain its unfair. Rules change and you can't apply previous precident to the current situation as a result. And I don't know if its a sensible punishment. I don't know if they have been all warned not to swear and that there will be repercussions and he ignored this or they just randomly decided they didn't like it out of the blue. I imagine the former.
 
I don't have an issue with sportsman swearing, they're under much more intense pressure (for short periods of time) than I ever was when I worked and I swore all the time, same as every single adult on the planet. When you have Hamilton and Verstappen agreeing on something you know it must be off!

I've heard 100x worse at Sunday league kits football than I ever have on F1.
 
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There is literally zero reason to swear in a press conference, end of.
This. Exactly this.

F1 is a global sport, the press conferences are aired throughout the whole planet, many countries broadcasters have rules about swearing before a certain time (what we call the watershed), the drivers should understand and accept this.

During the race is different, they can say what they want as their radio messages are delayed and can be bleeped if needed.

It's just a matter of respect to the broadcasting laws.
 
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