New Rules in F1 – The newspaper NY

Formula 1 will bring a battery of changes from 2026, but the International Automobile Federation (FIA) also decided to add new modifications in 2025 After many controversies with the communications of the pilots and the words used on radios with the equipment or in dialogue with the press were recorded at the end of the last season.

The series of guidelines given by the FIA ​​for the sanctions of the commissioners could reach the removal of points and a suspension, according to the scale of the penalty to the pilot in question. The updated version of the Sports Code published on Wednesday emphasizes article 12, which has a link to undue conduct.

This item is defined as “the general use of language (written or verbal), gestures and/or offensive, insulting, rude, rude or abusive signs and that can reasonably be expected or perceived as rude or rude or that causes offense, humiliation that is, inappropriate; assault (elbows, kicks, punches, blows, etc.); Encourage to do any of the previous things, ”according to the Specialized Motorsport site.

The fines that could be applied have a base figure, which is multiplied by four in the case of F1 pilots. The early infraction will have a penalty of 10,000 euros (40,000 euros for a driver), both amounts are doubled in the case of a second infraction. To the third, a payment of 30,000 euros (120,000 euros in Formula 1) is applied with the aggravating “a month of suspension plus deduction of points of the championship”. A pilot could miss one or several great awards in the event that there is any during that period.

Controversy in F1

The controversy about the use of certain words invaded the maximum with greater anell during the last season, which crowned Max Verstappen as a current tetrampeon.

Precisely, the Dutch was the man who was most under the magnifying glass for these issues, since the FIA ​​commissioners sanctioned him with community service tasks for saying that his car was “fucked” in the middle of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

“It was not a very bad word. The car was shit. Forgive the language, but it is what it was! ”Red Bull’s man counterattacked. And he continued with his catharsis: “We all use those words, it is part of the environment, although some do more than others.”

Days later to that episode, the president of the Federation, Mohammed Ben Sulayem, was in favor of limiting the emission of offensive words with a striking comparison: “We must differentiate our sport from rap. We are not rappers. How many times per minute say the word with ‘F’? We are not that. ”

Pilot response

This caused the immediate response of Ferrari’s brand new pilot, Lewis Hamilton, who said: “I don’t like the way he expressed it. Use the word rapper as stereotype. Most rappers are black. Subtly says that we are not like them. The choice of the word is incorrect. Has a racist element “. Next, he made a wink to Verstappen: “It’s good to show emotions, we are not robots.”

Already on the end of the year, Super Max was penalized with 10 seconds for a touch in the first curve of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with the McLaren driver, Oscar Piastri. “Stupid idiots”, was the champion’s insult to the authorities for the decision and the FIA ​​took two points of the superlicancia. In the event that a pilot reaches twelve units over a year, he receives a fine that makes it impossible to dispute a career. In fact, he leaned on this point to launch a joke in reference that he will be a father for soon: “I might make sure to reach 12 points when the baby is born. Then I can go down paternity. ”

In addition, the same fines will be applied to “the general realization and exhibition of political, religious and personal statements or comments that significantly violate the general principle of neutrality promoted by the FIA ​​by virtue of its statutes, unless they have been previously approved ”And a public apology will be required for their comments added to their retraction. “Any protest against a decision of the commissioners will be inadmissible,” says the Sports Code.

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