FIA (again) drastically increases its sanctions for misconduct

I think that the Dubai native (certainly authoritarian but not an Islamist) has the experience, the expertise (and the ambition?) to be at the head of a theocratic kingdom of the Gulf, even if that perhaps implies having a title of nobility (prince or equivalent). In line with the Raikkonen example for the "politically incorrect" even if he remains one of the last with Alonso, Hamilton and Verstappen not to be too polite and avoid wooden language. Certain that the regrettable Rosberg / Putin episode could be repeated in Azerbaijan or China if the local leader wanted to put himself forward! Completely in line with the fact that an employee is required to have certain obligations towards his employer but the drivers do not sign any contract with the FIA ​​but with a team.

The tyrannical spirit of this disgusting era is spreading its tentacles to finish off what remains of F1. What masterful hypocrisy!

Uh, what level of madness have we reached here? Can someone explain to me how he would be Islamist? The last time I checked, neither Iran nor Afghanistan, which are two regimes that claim to be Islamist, showed any enthusiasm for motorsport or adherence to a Western sporting-cultural structure. And unless I'm mistaken, these new sanctions have nothing to do with my Sharia. Or maybe it's because in your mind, but I dare not believe it, being born in the Emirates makes you a religious fanatic. Hell, thanks to this brilliant reasoning, I finally understand why I, who was born two hundred meters from a chapel, am convinced that the earth was created in seven days and that a woman cannot celebrate mass (or not).

This is what happens when you put an Arab Islamist in power! But gentlemen drivers, a strike in Dubai during the next grand prix would be a reset of F1 racing, it is THEY who do the work, not the Arab monarch! THEY can do without this gentleman!!!! Pitiful, where is F1 going these days, it has nothing to do with the racing of yesteryear!!

"Shit" from FIA. No respect for this federation, which, like many others, plays the dictator... For the article: of course some spelling mistakes... as usual!

F1 has fallen into the hands of big financial and industrial interests, and drivers are asked to behave as smoothly and sanitized as a boardroom. Indeed, it was in the 90s that some drivers became zealous in this sense, notably Schumacher, whose ready-made answers ("we still have a lot of work to do"), whatever the question, irritated me. But beyond the politically incorrect remarks, how many years have we not heard the words "suspension", "gear ratio", "downforce", "anti-roll bar", etc.? It's as if F1 cars were plastic boxes rolling on an air cushion. And in a sport that is called "mechanical", that bothers me much more than swear words, because on the technical side, it's a total blackout. We have to be content to applaud the exploits of our formatted champions without asking "top secret" questions.

Mohammed Bin Sulayem and wanting to send him back to the Middle East are a bit of an obsession with you, it seems. But hey, since here no one seems bothered by the fact of assigning everyone geographical areas of activity according to their nationality... Otherwise, taking Raikkonen as an example of the "politically incorrect" is somewhat wrong, it seems to me. He almost never said anything, except a f*** from time to time (and more often to his engineer than to the press if I'm not mistaken) when he wanted to be left alone. This silence largely bored the journalists, who in my memory were already complaining about the impossibility of having deep or interesting answers, which was not surprising when we remember that he arrived in F1 very young, having just left Formula Renault, therefore with less "experience" than others. Of course, later on, he became more assertive, but hey, that wasn't exactly earth-shattering, and it quickly turned into "Bye bye people" anyway. There's also, and it was already problematic at the time and hasn't aged well, Nico Rosberg congratulating Vladimir Putin on the successful holding of the Sochi GP, when the cunning power had already largely turned to autocracy and repression for those who didn't think or live as the Orthodox patriarch wanted... Note that, at the limit, it's perhaps this kind of thing that could be described as "politically incorrect". Frankly, looking for "political incorrectness" in professional sport today is complicated, and probably a bit futile, because in the end everyone is there to win and agrees to follow the rules of the game more or less clearly. I wonder if the shift didn't happen in the late 80s-early 90s, with the structuring of sectors (oil companies, tobacco manufacturers, car manufacturers, management companies have probably done the same) in which drivers integrate the codes of employees even more than in the case of the trajectories of their elders. However, and this is probably audible, an employee is required to behave in a certain way towards his employer, whom he must not harm, either in his actions or in his words. From there, we must not delude ourselves, the system of continuous training that this creates poses the structures of an impressive conformity to a model considered optimal. Conversely, NASCAR, which allowed or encouraged fights in the pits or in the infield between its drivers, itself established a framework of political correctness, the opposite of that of F1, where punching each other in the face was the correct thing to do.

Thanks to this great democrat MBS, an autocratic president who would be quite competent to be at the head of one of these petromonarchies. Not sure that the drivers appreciate this "code of good conduct", certain on the other hand that the obligations towards the press put on stage robots even more formatted than before! The political incorrectness of an Iceman Raikkonen and others before him has definitely disappeared, sacrificed in favor of a totally smooth and insipid speech. When will the next election at the head of the FIA ​​be?