{"id":17022,"date":"2012-11-09T07:06:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T12:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17022"},"modified":"2012-11-09T07:06:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T12:06:32","slug":"fia-warns-drivers-to-stop-bad-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fia-warns-drivers-to-stop-bad-language\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA warns drivers to stop bad language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formula one teams have been instructed to pull their drivers into line, after world champion Sebastian Vettel and former title winner Kimi Raikkonen swore during their post-race podium interviews in Abu Dhabi last weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-logos\/FIA-2.jpg\" alt=\"FIA-2\" width=\"216\" height=\"86\" \/>Speaking to former driver David Coulthard for the &#8216;world feed&#8217;-broadcast new podium interviews at Yas Marina, Raikkonen said the word &#8220;sh*t&#8221; and Red Bull&#8217;s Vettel &#8220;f**k&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I should just remind our audience that he (Vettel) is speaking in his second language,&#8221; Coulthard said immediately on the podium, &#8220;and so we apologise for the choice of words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But in a letter to team bosses, the FIA&#8217;s communications head Norman Howell said it is now their &#8220;responsibility to make sure drivers are aware such language has no place during media events&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Howell said the letter was just a &#8220;friendly&#8221; reminder, but that incidents in the future could lead to disciplinary action, according to a report by the BBC.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formula one teams have been instructed to pull their drivers into line, after world champion Sebastian Vettel and former title winner Kimi Raikkonen swore during their post-race podium interviews in Abu Dhabi last weekend. Speaking to former driver David Coulthard for the &#8216;world feed&#8217;-broadcast new podium interviews at Yas Marina, Raikkonen said the word &#8220;sh*t&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[410,5262,5300,5340,152,4111,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17023,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17022\/revisions\/17023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}