ＦＩＡが無線での暴言抑制を要請、一部のドライバーは反発

【シンガポールＡＦＰ＝時事】２４Ｆ１第１８戦シンガポールＧＰを今週末に控える中、レッドブルの世界王者マックス・フェルスタッペンら一部のトップドライバーは１９日、国際自動車連盟（ＦＩＡ）がチーム無線での暴言を控えるべきだと警告したことに対し、言葉遣いを和らげるつもりはないと反発した。（写真は、２４Ｆ１第１８戦シンガポールＧＰを控え、記者会見に臨むレッドブルのマックス・フェルスタッペン）
　ＦＩＡのモハメド・ビン・スレイエム会長は、ａｕｔｏｓｐｏｒｔ．ｃｏｍのインタビューで、テレビで放送される不適切な言葉を最小限に抑えるようフォーミュラワン・マネジメントに要請。モータースポーツは「ラップ音楽」ではなく、特に子どもたちが見ているかもしれないため、ドライバーは自身の言葉遣いに気をつけるべきだと述べた。
　しかし、よく感情を爆発させることで知られるフェルスタッペンは、ヒートアップしたレース中のドライバーの発言が気に入らなければ、それを放送しないことが簡単な解決策だとし、「自分たちは何者だ？ ５歳児か？ ６歳児か？」「５歳や６歳の子どもたちが見ていたとしても、彼らは成長したら、いずれにせよ悪態をつくようになる」と報道陣に語った。
　Ｆ１のチーム無線での悪態は、少し遅れて放送される前にすでにビープ音で消されているものの、スレイエム会長は検閲の量を削減したいと考えている。
　メルセデスＡＭＧのドライバーで、通算７度の年間優勝を誇るルイス・ハミルトンは、Ｆ１で言葉遣いを改善しようとする取り組みについては問題ないとし、「罰則を設けるなら、きっとみんな（悪態を）やめるだろう」「それが必要かどうか分からないが、確かに少し多すぎると思う」と語った。
　一方、マクラーレンのランド・ノリスは、フェルスタッペンの意見に同調し、Ｆ１が「無線を流さなければいいだけの話だ」「僕らは激しいレースを戦っている。だから、彼らが言うのは簡単だが、僕らが行動に移すのは難しい」と話した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/09/20-17:00）

Leading Formula One drivers at this week's Singapore Grand Prix said Thursday they would not tone down their language on team radio, after the governing body FIA warned they should cut out the swearing.
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem told Autosport.com in an interview that he had asked Formula One Management to minimise the amount of foul language being broadcast on television.
Ben Sulayem said that motorsport was not rap music and drivers should mind their language, especially as children might be watching.
But world champion Max Verstappen, who is no stranger to a fruity outburst, told reporters that if the FIA did not like what drivers say in the heat of a race, then the solution is to simply not broadcast it.
What are we? Five-year-olds? Six-year-olds? the Red Bull driver said.
Even if a five-year-old or six-year-old is watching, they will eventually swear anyway when they grow up.
Swearing on F1 team radio is already bleeped out before being broadcast on a delayed feed, but Ben Sulayem wants to cut down on the amount of censoring needed.
We have to differentiate between our sport -- motorsport -? and rap music, Ben Sulayem said.
We're not rappers, you know. They say the F-word how many times per minute?
We're not rappers, you know. They say the F-word how many times per minute? We are not on that. That's them and we are us, Ben Sulayem told the motorsport news website.
Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton said he had no problem with trying to clean up the language in Formula One.
I'm sure if you say there are penalties for it, people will stop (swearing), Hamilton told reporters in Singapore.
I don't know whether that is needed, but I definitely think there is a little bit too much.
But Hamilton did not like Ben Sulayem's comparison with rap music.
I don't like how he's expressed it, saying 'rappers' is very stereotypical. And most rappers are black, said Hamilton.
That was the wrong choice of words. There's a racial element there.
Lando Norris agreed with Verstappen, adding that F1 can just not play the radios.
We're the guys in the heat of the moment... So it's a lot easier for them to say than for us to do, the McLaren driver said.
We're just putting our passion into it. You're listening to the rawness of drivers and their thoughts and their feelings.
When I listen to it, I find it cool and I find it exciting.
Ferrari's Charles Leclerc said foul language happened in lots of other sports, but F1 was unique in that drivers had microphones attached to them.
I think there are other priorities for the FIA at the moment, Leclerc said.
I would return the favour to the FIA and ask them to take off some of our bad words and not broadcast as much. And it's quite easy to do.
For us to control our words when you are driving a car at 300 kilometres per hour in between walls is tricky, he added.
And we are humans after all.