Drivers to boycott interview questions as FIA under big pressure after statement

Drivers to boycott interview questions as FIA under big pressure after statement

The FIA are facing pressure from drivers as the swearing row continues to rage on.

Puritanism imposed by Mohamed Bin Sulayem, with fines and threats of license penalties, was answered at the Kenya Rally, with a boycott.

While the season kicked off last week in pouring rain, the FIA is delaying signing the Concorde Agreement, which it would like to see reformulated on several points, giving rise to serious tensions between the parties to the agreement.

The surprise came at the end of Rally Kenya: WRC drivers decided to speak their mother tongue to journalists as a form of protest against the FIA's 'cork law', which already earned Adrien Fourmaux a fine of 10 thousand euros at the Swedish rally

The drivers of the World Rally Championship, who joined their Formula 1 counterparts to protest the FIA's crackdown on swearing, will refuse to answer questions from the media this weekend. WRC drivers formed the World Rally Drivers' Alliance last month (the equivalent of the GPDA for the F1) after the FIA used its new sanctions to fine Adrian Fourmaux for swearing in a hot media intervention (...)

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