RaceFans Round-up: 15th February 2025

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   Djangles LeVaughn (@royal-spark)
   15th February 2025, 0:16

   Don’t ban F1 drivers for swearing – Sainz and Albon

   For that to happen a certain Would-be-Third-World-Dictator must leave his position of FIA President.
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      S
      15th February 2025, 8:32

      A “Would-be-Third-World-Dictator” would first have to become FIA president, in order to leave the position.
      The current FIA president is just a guy who loves motorsport and wants F1 to clean up its act in a number of ways – especially in terms of respecting the rules/rule enforcers and in terms of presentation.

      If teams or drivers repeatedly break any rules (including in the ISC) regardless of obvious intent – they absolutely deserve to be ‘banned.’ These people are supposed to be professionals, and they all know who is listening to every word they say and watching every move they make during F1 events.
      They are free to be whomever they wish and say whatever they want on their own time, and via their own media outlet.
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   An Sionnach
   15th February 2025, 1:01

   I think it’s good to discourage swearing, but I also wonder at the availability of team radio to the public in the first place. Moves like this should not come at the expense of team operations and those are already impacted by their availability to the other teams. Only Ferrari have truly mastered encoding their broadcasts. They would be incomprehensible to the Enigma machine. A bonus is that nobody cares enough to bother.
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      Jere (@jerejj)
      15th February 2025, 6:15

      Team radios have been freely available since the mid-2000s, & nothing wrong with this long-time approach anyway.
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   Jere (@jerejj)
   15th February 2025, 6:15

   The Williams duo couldn’t be more right.
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   S
   15th February 2025, 8:17

   Sainz and Albon are, of course, protecting only their side things – exactly as you’d expect them to do.
   F1 drivers do that all the time; advocate for change only after they’ve retired – but while they’re active, they don’t want to change a thing.
   Even these two guys would probably feel quite different if the same was happening in whatever their young kids were interested in. Some things simply don’t need to be normalised in every situation.

   The whole thing is quite the non-issue – however, F1 still needs to be aligned with the rest of society. If the communication is not fit for broadcast to a G rating, then don’t broadcast it. If FOM aren’t voluntarily going to be responsible, then the FIA has a right, and indeed – a responsibility – to step in and put boundaries on it.
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   S Arkazam
   15th February 2025, 8:23

   I don’t think drinking gin, rum, tequila, vodka, and blue curaçao in the morning works as well as it did the night before.
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   MichaelN
   15th February 2025, 9:04

   Swearing wouldn’t be so bad if they took a page out of Russell’s book.

   The way most go about it is so juvenile and lacking any sense of creativity.
7. 

   LyndaMarks
   15th February 2025, 10:52

   I really don’t like the new pit boost thing they used in Formula E.

   It completely messed up the flow of the race & made things harder to follow.

   The revised Jeddah layout also managed to made a horrid track even worse.
8. 

   Constantijn Blondel
   15th February 2025, 18:49

   Tiny Hurray to see VeeKay get a ride. I think the guy definitely deserves it!
   1. 

      MacLeod (@macleod)
      17th February 2025, 8:07

      He gots it:

      VeeKay joins Coyne to complete 2025 IndyCar field

      He is a good driver who selected Indycar because Max was in F1 already.

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