In the round-up: The Thai prime minister who was pushing for a Formula 1 race in the country’s capital has been ousted.
In brief
Setback for Thailand GP
The prospects of Thailand holding its first grand prix have suffered a setback due to the ousting of prime minister Srettha Thavisin. He met Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in May to discuss the possibility of holding a street race in the capital Bangkok.
Thailand’s constitutional court ruled Thavisin broke ethical rules with one of his cabinet appointments. Thavisin and his Pheu Thai coalition took power less than a year ago, despite the progressive Move Forward Party winning the most seats. The same court ordered the dissolution of Move Forward last week and banned its leaders from politics for 10 years.
Daly replaces Canapino
Juncos Hollinger has named Conor Daly as its replacement for Agustin Canapino from this weekend’s IndyCar round at Gateway. Canapino quit the series halfway through his second season.Daly’s sole start so far this season came at the Indianapolis 500 where he rose from 29th on the grid to finish 10th. He said he is eager to reunite with team co-owner Ricardo Juncos, who he drove for earlier in his career.
“Ricardo took a chance on me when I was young and it made a huge difference in my career,” said Daly. “There are a lot of people on this team that I’ve worked with before and that gives me a lot of confidence.”
Daly said his goal is to ensure the number 78 car Canapino began the season in finishes within the top 22 highest scoring entries, which will entitle the team to a payment under IndyCar’s ‘Leaders’ Circle’ rules.
Legge returns for Gateway
Katherine Legge will return to IndyCar this weekend to make her fourth start of the season in Coyne’s number 51 car. She is one of six different drivers to have piloted the machine this year.
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Comment of the day
The FIA is eager to clamp down on “negative comments” to prevent online abuse – but will it work?
Any comment can “incite” abuse. Abusive people will find reasons to make their anonymous comments on Twitter…
I suspect what Mohammed Ben Sulayem wants is drivers, principals and everyone involved to just stop making comments about the stewards, kind of like how WEC teams are forbidden to comment on the Balance of Performance.
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Nick T.
15th August 2024, 0:20
@fer-no65 Makes the most unfair comments! Let’s dox him!
Jay
15th August 2024, 1:20
COTD: Way to single out twitter for ‘abuse’ but I’d argue the others, FB, Insta, Google, have way more abuse. It’s just that it’s OK, according to the establishment, to abuse certain people or institutions.
The answer to bad speech isn’t censorship, it’s more speech. If the speech is so egregious it should be easy to dispel it. Maybe we should ban all speech, that way nobody is ever offended.
notagrumpyfan
15th August 2024, 8:24
Research shows that relatively most abuse happens on Twitter nowadays.
It’s just the group who blindly follow Musk into his rabbit hole and echo chamber who fail to see this, and share his ‘freedom of speech allows everything’ rhetoric, including victim blaming, here and in other places.
MichaelN
15th August 2024, 11:18
It’s easy to dispel dumb speech in a small setting. Like a family or a classroom.
But once a group has sufficient numbers it just becomes an echo chamber that separates itself from the rest of society, with their own little words and terms and talking points. Or even their own media outlets, their own clubs etc. It’s not a coincidence that the examples mentioned in that article largely come from the Red Bull teams, that’s apparently their culture.
PlosslF1 (@f1-ploss)
15th August 2024, 11:46
I miss the pre-Smartphone/FB internet, before then you had to be a bit techy with PC’s, modems etc to get on it so it was kind of separated from the masses. Now everyone and there dog has access to it and its turned into a toilet where knuckle draggers can unite and the line between truth and falsehoods has blurred to the point where some people are convinced the Earth is flat….
Nick T.
16th August 2024, 5:35
Me too. Social media literally ruined everything. The whole promise of the world getting smarter due to being access all the information in the world at one’s finger tips has gone exactly the opposite way as a result of SM.
David Sexton
15th August 2024, 2:37
Jay, you have an excellent idea. No spoken words. Think how quiet it would be. But now people will be offended because you dared to look at them in a manner they would find offensive.
pcxmac (@pcxmac)
15th August 2024, 5:16
ironically those who care most about what people think first, then say are more interested in controlling what you do. those who care most about what you do, and then think last, are far less interested in controlling peoples actions.
of course it comes from the psychology of a child whose only real pull in this world is manipulation, and preoccupation with directing attention.
so maybe its the FIA who need to grow up, and worry more about accuracy and safety vs branding and control.
blaming drivers for having an opinion shared with the masses, makes ya wonder.
pcxmac (@pcxmac)
15th August 2024, 5:22
how about sepang ?
Jere (@jerejj)
15th August 2024, 7:09
They simply haven’t had strong interest towards a return at any point since abandoning the GP after the 2017 season.
A street/city circuit in South Korea, Indonesia, or China would be more likely in comparison, if not Bangkok anymore.
MacLeod (@macleod)
15th August 2024, 7:51
When they decide to want the GP again expect a fast appointment. It was 1 of the beter GP around.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
15th August 2024, 8:03
Yes, was a really good track, a shame to lose it after 2017.
Yaru (@yaru)
15th August 2024, 10:34
Not gonna happen with government money and the race isn’t profitable with purely private investment.
S
15th August 2024, 10:43
They don’t have F1-level money to throw at it anymore.
Something many people forget is that ticket prices have to match the local economy – but F1’s sanctioning rights fees don’t. F1 just goes wherever they make the most profit.
F1 has been consistently raising fees for decades. It’s no coincidence that many older or more traditional F1 venues are dropping off the calendar – and it has nothing to do with how ‘good’ the circuit is.
MichaelN
15th August 2024, 11:21
Malaysia isn’t interested in hosting F1 races. It’s too expensive for what it gets them in return.
Nick T.
16th August 2024, 5:37
I’d love to go back to Sepang. So many great races. Too bad only venues willing to fork out tons of $ are on the calendar with a couple hanging on through sheer fan pressure.
Jere (@jerejj)
15th August 2024, 7:08
I doubt a single individual’s ousting will have an excessive impact on the proposed plans, even if that individual happens to be PM or anyone else with a high status.
So CM/EA was right all along to have the pit building look bigger & more modern in each game since 2020.
They simply predicted the future that far in advance.
In all seriousness, what a demolition site, quite unrecognizable, & to think how recently the most recent Hungarian GP occurred.
Yaru (@yaru)
15th August 2024, 10:37
It depends on how much such ousted individual was pushing for it and whether others were. Projects can die pretty easily when your big advocates leave.
Jere (@jerejj)
15th August 2024, 18:45
True
Janith
15th August 2024, 23:28
Aren’t Thailand hosting MotoGP in Buriram?
Riker (@corsair)
16th August 2024, 1:26
Oh no. You mean we can’t have a race in yet another anti democratic country? Dang it.
Nick T.
16th August 2024, 5:39
You take that back! Authoritarians have just as much right to live “their truth” as anyone else.