PARIS \u2014 The governing body for\u00a0Formula 1, the FIA, has condemned \u201charassment and disrespect\u201d in abusive social media comments about race stewards following the\u00a0Dutch Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The FIA’s statement Tuesday didn’t highlight any specific incidents or comments, but it follows a social media backlash from fans of Alpine driver Franco Colapinto, who received two penalties from the stewards in Sunday’s race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOnline abuse, harassment and disrespect have no place in our sport,\u201d the FIA posted on X alongside a statement from the United Against Online Abuse group it founded.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing the Dutch Grand Prix, FIA stewards were targeted with online abuse after applying sporting penalties in line with FIA regulations,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThe United Against Online Abuse coalition condemns all forms of abuse and harassment. Disagreement with decisions is part of sport, but it must never justify threats or personal attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Colapinto and Racing Bulls’ Arvid Lindblad were each handed a drive-through penalty after they were deemed to have overtaken under double yellow flags in the aftermath of Max Verstappen’s heavy crash. Colapinto argued he had actually been trying to avoid debris, not overtake.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The stewards’ ruling said they \u201cacknowledge the complications caused by the significant amount of debris on track at this point and take this into account as mitigating circumstances\u201d when deciding not to order an even larger penalty.<\/p>\n
Colapinto and Red Bull’s Liam Lawson were also each given 10-second time penalties later in the race for failing to slow under a yellow flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS \u2014 The governing body for\u00a0Formula 1, the FIA, has condemned \u201charassment and disrespect\u201d in abusive social media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-870927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}