Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff disagrees with a lot of Ben Sulayem’s policies, but says he is aligned with him over stance on swearing
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s push to drive swearing out of Formula 1 has received unlikely support from Mercedes boss Toto Wolff. While Wolff does not see eye-to-eye with Ben Sulayem on every topic in F1, he thinks the efforts to clean up the image of drivers is something worth fighting for thanks to a personal experience he had recently.
” Ben Sulayem revealed efforts to clamp down on the prevalence of swearing ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix – and that weekend world champion Max Verstappen was sanctioned for using a curse word in a press conference. The Dutchman was handed a day’s community service by the FIA, which he fulfilled during his visit to the official Prize Gala in Rwanda last weekend. Speaking to Motorsport.
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