Last Updated on February 9 2025, 5:06 am
The world appears as though the era of the dictator is nigh. Russia decided in 2021 they wished to re-draw the UN agreed territories following World War II and so invaded Ukraine with president Putin asserting the former Soviet state was in fact “not a proper country.”
Formula One appears to be suffering a similar fate and whilst the teams and drivers’ are not yet facing a takeover by force, sinister forces are at work which are now to affect all the stakeholders within the most watched annual sporting series in the world.
Lewis Hamilton was weeping tears of regret as his Mercedes team decided not to pit him for fresh rubber during the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Meanwhile Max Verstappen had been given new tyres by his Red Bull team and blew past the Mercedes driver who was leading the race to claim his first F1 drivers’ title, whilst simultaneously denying Hamilton of the much coveted eight world championship.
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Within days of this epic tragedy for Lewis and his Hamfosi army, the seven times champion was up on a charge issued directly form the newly appointed FIA president. Hamilton had failed to update his online diary and ‘accidentally’ missed the FIA end of season prize gala, which was mandatory given he was a top three finisher in the F1 drivers’ championship.
Hamilton then went dark, remarkably no social media posts were to be seen for some eight long weeks, leaving his adoring fans wondering whether their hero was in fact alive or dead. When Lewis finally revealed he was not retiring but prepared to come back and fight for his right of another championship, he found himself up on a couple of misconduct charges issued by non-other than the president of the FIA.
The first resulted in a monetary fine for Lewis given he had snubber the hadn’t that feeds him and refused to join the after party for the 2021 season. Swiftly to follow was an edict issued from the Place de Concorde which demanded the F1 stewards do their job and enforce the existing ‘no jewellery’ regulation which had been on the estate books for nigh on a decade.
Lewis took great exception to the demands from the new Arabic FIA supremo. He suggested this was in fact an oppression of his cultural right as a black man and further claiming racist persecution was the reason for Mohammed Ben Sulayem calling time on his vast array of bling.
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Few felt sorry for Lewis, given the cockpit of a Formula One car is a very dangerous place. Zhou Guangu later demonstrated this in Silverstone at the 2023 British Grand Prix, as he acrobatically summersaulted his Sauber over the tyre barrier at turn one, wedging himself and his car tightly between the retaining fence and wall of rubber.
Of course had the Chinese driver been dutifully wearing his CCP party member pin, this may have pierced his upper chest causing a fatal injury to the heart, something which could not be blamed on chairman Mao’s cultural revolution. Indeed it would be the FIA who bore the brunt of the outcry which would surely have followed had they been guilty of inaction over the matter of highly dangerous shiny bits of metal being allowed in the cockpit of a Formula One car.
Yet Hamilton was not done with this fight, he decided a visit to his doctor was in order. The resulting sick note appeared to do the trick and the FIA stewards decided to leave the poor boy from under privileged Stevenage alone.
This was but the start of the tale of Chairman Ben of the FIA, as the feisty chap who once raced rally cars. – did you perchance know? – had made it his mission to drag F1 and all it represented into modernity.
FIA president wages war on bad language
Next up for the firing squad was the commercial rights owner and its representatives. Following a less than competent financial report in a publication we shall not name at present, came the tweets from Ben’s official ‘el presidente’ twitter account which threatened Liberty Media and its executives. They had dared to allow an anonymous source to suggests that Liberty Media was merely in F1 to make money and that an eye watering offer from the Saudi’s to buy them out was now a realistic proposition.
Ben stated for all the world to hear that no such deal would be possible without his personal consent, given he was now the guardian of the sport and the fans interests. Such a none sensical arrangement with his fellow Arabs would surely see ticket price for the lowly fan rise exponentially were a value of $20bn be placed on the sport.
Coincidentally, under his leadership Formula One has sanctioned races in Miami and Las Vegas, where the ticket prices are now already the cost of the average workers entire annual social and sustenance budget. And the ordinary man (sorry people, EIA initiatives have not yet reached Judge13 towers) has been replaced by the global elite posse of Celebs, who can afford to relax in the shadows of the Miami Dolphins stadium at the fake beach club, where €50 US dollars will get you a sugar fix of Coke – and I mean the liquid variety.
Next up on the Sharia law style agenda came the clampdown on the drivers for using potty mouth language. Of course the plan was never to chop off their hands, or other vital extremities, but to bring them to heel over the alleged rapper style language they were using whilst answering banal questions at an FIA approved media event.
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Max Verstappen was the first to fall foul of the new dictat. His punishment was to promote motorsport to the starving children of Rwanda in an attempt to demonstrate that becoming in F1 driver is in fact for everyone. Of course there are just twenty of these privileged positions in the world and with the collapse of the deal with the UK for Rwanda to process Blighty’s illegal immigrants, the cash to promote one of the kids from Africa to global stardom has now evaporated.
The drivers’ union, which fights for their rights in a world where they are oppressed by wicked teams who are not prepared to pay them their fair dues, decided enough was enough. They demanded Ben treat them with greater respect and that he himself modify his language, as with the exception of Lewis Hamilton, wealthy rappers they are not.
In response Ben was in no mood for negotiation and he doubled down and whistled up some new regulations for 2025. F1 drivers fines for using language which offends has been quadrupled and on the third strike of describing human excrement in a baudy fashion will see them receive a hefty one month ban from racing.
We have yet to hear the F1 drivers’ union response to this latest development from last week, but this is most likely to do with them being absent – with leave – while they relax in the resort of Saint Moritz and partake in nothing pout of the ordinary other than extreme winter sports.
F1 drivers now face 1 month ban
We can only assume once the F1 drivers gather as one for pre-season F1 testing, they will learn of their new fate and presumably take offence at the draconian new regulations. Clearly their late autumn collective letter to Ben had little effect, so maybe a boycott of an F1 weekend is now on the cards. Then again this would be breach of contract and F1 drivers’ could suffer millions in withheld remuneration for their most militant of responses.
The teams and drivers have been lectured on what is now appropriate or not by Ben, but now such is his confidence in the supreme authority he possesses, he has turned on the F1 fans who clearly need even greater protection from immoral behaviour and debauchery, as those pesky drivers will clearly not comply with the new little red book.
The prospect of a one month ban from racing is not clearly enough to prevent the F1 drivers from venting their spleen in an inappropriate linguistic fashion. And to this end the F1 dictator has deemed this no way proper for a five year old to hear at an FIA approved press conference where the F-bomb gets dropped.
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At five years of age, I personally never watched a press conference about anything, but clearly the world has changed and our infants are engaging in the wicked world of bad language, from an age where Lego and Meccano used to be all the rage.
Having subjugated Liberty Media who insisted no eleventh team would be allowed to join the F1 circus, Ben has now turned on the F1 fans who are many and varied (DEI Nevana of opportunity for us Judges to learn from), and who remain predominantly middle to a bit older than middle aged.
The latest wheeze from one of the most expensive real estate properties in the city of Paris, where officials take an early lunch of frogs legs and eye watering expensive French red wine which extends late in the day, is to ban team radio from future F1 TV broadcasts.
Despite FOM ensuring that words which may offend are bleeped form the live F1 TV coverage, this appears to be insufficient for the morality police who must ensure our minds are not corrupted whilst watching gladiatorial combat in any way shape or form.
F1 team radio to be “shut down”
In the face of an impending driver rebellion to a potential one moth racing ban, President Ben is close to deciding a censorship programme to ensure the fans of F1 are not corrupted. In a recent interview he was asked how the FIA would reposed to driver defiance over the new profanity laws, his reply was succinct.
“Do we go on and then shut down the radios of live communication? Maybe. Do we delay it? Maybe,” he said when speaking to Soy Motor. “There is a lot of things that we will work [on] with our promoter… We [are] still the owners of the Championship,” he concluded clearly still fighting a puritanical war that nobody else gives a shit about. (Oops, the F1 media may well be up next in the cross hairs).
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Offence is in the eye of those offended
President Ben appears to be suffering from OCD on the matter of potty mouths, and by the time the lights go out in Melbourne, the topic will have gathered pace and been exhaustively debated. For fans of F1, controversy and some agitation is all part of the entertainment across an F1 weekend but the latest missive from President Ben could well be see the masses rise up forcing Mr. Ben to finally listen.
Offence is in they eye of those offended. And this is the basis of the free speech values we have long fought and died for. No EIA agenda or puritanical views should be entertained in F1 – and in fact as F1 fans we should vociferously shun them and treat them with the contempt they deserve.
Anyway, it appears the recent election by US citizens of a certain Donald Trump with his collegiate style of conflict resolution, is about to sort this entire mess out and bring about peace and civility to the world, and maybe F1.
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Its almost a year since since Lewis Hamilton shocked the Formula One world by announcing just months after signing a new contract with Mercedes, he would be leaving the team which brought him almost all of his F1 success to join Ferrari.
His reasoning for the move has been analysed more than Donald Trumps potential effect on the global economy and evidence does exist the breakup was not underpinned by Bonhomie. Toto Wolff questioned the timing of Hamilton’s announcement, the day he faced the media for the first time to respond to the news.
The Mercedes hoss clearly felt it was going to be the longest of farewells, and maybe Lewis could have held his water for longer. Then again Hamilton resounded, explaining there were too many people now in the loop and he was concerned about the news leaking out…. READ MORE
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Stay in your lane and stick to racing. Your political opening is not only incorrect- it is insulting.
A mega subjective article. No need to extend your concerns about the “free world” to Formula 1. And how can you not feel sorry for poor Hamilton!
Still pushing false narratives. Lewis lost AD21 as a result of Masi breaking the rules and nothing to do with tyre strategy as you have inferred.