“He didn’t pass the limit,” Felipe Massa defends Max Verstappen over his INFAMOUS Singapore swearing-ban saga
Max Verstappen was in the headlines for all the wrong reasons during the Singapore Grand Prix weekend.
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Felipe Massa and Max Verstappen (Via: Getty Images and Imago)
Max Verstappen had a tough weekend away from the track at the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix. His swearing (F-bomb) antics got him in hot waters with the FIA and the latter even punished Verstappen with a community service punishment.
Several esteemed personalities have already had their say on the matter. The latest to join this ever-growing list is the Ex-F1 driver Felipe Massa. The Brazilian genuinely feels Max Verstappen did not go overboard with his off-track Singapore antics.
During the whole weekend, Verstappen was making the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
In life, in sport, you have a limit for what you can say and in whatever situation. What happened to Max, he didn’t pass the limit. When you have some fights there are some words and whatever you know, even some bad words. Sometimes that is part of the sport. It’s part of the condition, the pressure, whenever things happen in a race.
Felipe Massa via Racingnews365
Massa via his comments, has given the benefit of the doubt to Verstappen. Being a former racing driver himself, he understands the pressures a driver has to deal with and thus, does not think that the 26-year-old crossed a certain line when he said ‘f*ck’ during the Singapore press conference.
Felipe Massa makes a football reference to back up Max Verstappen
While Felipe Massa has asserted that Max Verstappen did not do something outrageously wrong, he has also backed up his comments with a football reference. The former has talked about the swearing that is done in that sport by the players on a regular basis.
In football, you make a bad tackle on another player, if he has a microphone by his mouth, things will come out, and maybe not in a perfect way. But what’s happening is too much, you know. The sport needs to have a way of [allowing] funny things, even crazy things which belong to the fights [on track].
Felipe Massa via the same interview
The 2024 F1 season has only six races remaining and all the 10 F1 teams are focused on getting the maximum out of their car. There are fights up and down the grid for varied reasons and amidst this, the swearing issue is not very high on the various teams or the driver’s list.
Maybe what the FIA can do is, after the culmination of the campaign, they can have a hard look at how the drivers can be allowed to express themselves freely. Even allowing them to use certain words to an acceptable extent because, during high-intensity Grand Prix events, instances could arise where drivers might slip out the F-bomb again via team radio.
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