TECHNICALLY, they don't advertise alcohol because it's banned in the UK/EU to advertise cigarettes and alcohol during sporting events. That's why they're sponsored by "Peroni 0%" or "Heineken 0%"
There is just one single Narcissist behind the backlash towards Sulayem. A master manipulator. The first driver to bring outside politics and ideology into the sport.
Except they aren't stopped from swearing. Just broadcasting it. The drivers aren't crashing at 320Km/h when they are sat in a chai doing a press conference. Every other sport prohibits the use of foul language. Look at the broadcast and you will see both the press and athletes told to refrain from swearing in front of the press
@@commonhead1844 Its still a stupid rule. If the fia want to have toddlerfriendly language they should stop being involved in any sort of exciting competition
The astounding thing is that all these controversies are so unforced. At every opportunity he seems to escalate the most minor of things out of sheer impulsiveness.
I’m waiting for him to try to put sharria law in to the mix…. Guy is absolutely F’in useless. He has always had money and believes everyone should bow down to him.
@@SamBrickellTell me you know nothing about the history of F1 without telling me you know nothing about the sport of F1. If you think controversy and money grubbing is unique to brown skin people, you need to go watch marble racing or something.
It all seems a bit knee jerk and childish to me,honestly. The cursing thing I can understand for a press conference maybe,but he seems willing to die on that hill.
lets not forget that when f1 raced at jeddah for the first time there were missile attacks outside the city and the fia threatened to withold drivers and teams passport if they refused to race
That's also standard practice when dealing with foreign employees in Saudi. They take your passport and will make getting it back very very hard. So at least they treated the drivers as crappily as they do everyone else.
Wait, that one driver from Colin McRae Dirt 2 is now the FIA president? I mean, I knew he was a real rally driver, but my mind immediately went to that of all things.
And, having heard this, initially I was like “Oh cool! I dunno much about him, but he was listed as a Pro in game, so he must’ve done something. This’ll be interesting.” Uhhh, it’s been, interesting. That’s for sure.
@Exponaut_R-01 To be honest, when I first played Dirt 2 at the age of 9 or so, I thought he was a fake pro made up for the game, like the female drivers. He has no prominence compared to the other pros, even guys with seemingly little to do with rally, like Dave Mirra and Travis Pastrana. After learning about his FIA stint though...yeah, I kinda wish he was fake. He was so much cooler when I only knew him from the game.
@@VnVnV-893I think MBS operates on the old saying, “rules for thee but not for me”. Considering how he cusses like a damn sailor, it’s not beyond the realm of possibility.
@@VnVnV-893I mean, he’s from Dubai. I’ve met a few Dubai natives and they all drink when abroad because they can’t at home. Apparently it would put a bad look on their family. Everyone has to make sure they look religious but in reality only a minority actually believe in it. It’s also expensive there, but I don’t think that’s a factor for him lol
I still don't understand why the WRC has to be downgraded year after year. The fastest car is the same as the slowest car. They even cancelled the paddle shifters. They cancelled the aerodynamics. Now they have cancelled the hybrids.
@@GeometryEX-hp9zsgetting rid of the hybrid is the best thing possible for WRC. It is too expensive, to rebuild every time there is a crash’s which is very common in rally, the cars are too expensive cos of this meaning only Hyundai, Toyota and M Sport in the top category which is a disgrace. They are changing the regulations for the better now, of course I agree that they clowned on the sport before, but now at least they are going to try to fix it. One step back to take 2 steps forwards, similar to what WEC did after ending LMP1.
@@FCPortoAutomobilismo There is a fact that hybrids are not that expensive. WRC uses conversions of small displacement production cars. The conversion is what is really expensive. Toyota Corolla, Hyundai i20, Ford Focus. The only difference is whether they have factory support. Peugeot has completely withdrawn, and I see many drivers have also chosen to withdraw. WRC is basically finished. M-sport lost the technical support of the factory team a few years ago. There are almost no teams in this category. Three teams are really too few. And because they use small displacement production cars, hybridization is not a problem. Do you really understand what a production car is? ?
@@FCPortoAutomobilismo WEC LMP1 LMP2 and now Hypercar are custom cars, they are very expensive. F1 is also expensive because they are custom cars. Only one or two cars are produced. WEC GT class is production car, and the whole WRC is production car. Production car means people can drive these cars on the road. The biggest difference between race car and road car is the degree of modification. The rest is the same. It is clear that WRC is not just declining. This race is just one breath away from death. The race lacks the necessary broadcast support and has too many restrictions, so car manufacturers are unwilling to invest in it. The first to leave the event are car manufacturers, then advertising sponsors, and then drivers.
From a "leaders of motorsport" perspective, I totally agree. Neither were good leaders, but Bernie was the leader of F1, not FIA. He was essentially what Liberty Media is, now. So just garbage all around at the top, lol.
They’ve been in a relationship for over 20 years. I first knew about it when I read that Michael Schumacher had the Chinese dragon graphic on his helmet to demonstrate his skills in the wet, as suggested by Michele Yeoh, Todt’s girlfriend, and I was like wait a minute😮
I would like to nominate Sebastien Vettel for FIA president. The man truly loves motorsports and know everything there is to know about it's rules and history. I am 100% sure he would make a fair and unbiased president. If he is not made president, at least offer him a job as race director.
The background music is always too loud, it's why I never watch his content. I'll occasionally click on a video to see if he's finally fixed it and he never has lmao, been like 2 years now.
@ lol, i not aware of it until his latest upload which i am listening via headphone. His previous video was watched via speaker so maybe no that obvious 😂
@@hamtairo Yeah it's much more watchable when I use my speakers but I only really like using them for music or if I have guests round, I like the content but not enough to change my outputs lmao
Hey, thats me in the finish stand @1:48 lol I was on the Start/Finish crew for last years USGP at COTA, got to waive the checker flag for each quali session. We were doing a debrief with a gal from the FIA as everyone rolled into the pits.
MBS coming the UAE says everything you need to know about him. No sense of common sense, the constant need of attention, and need to become a control freak on the most insignificant things. Everything he does was probably manufactured from bribery given the fact he was more rich than any other FIA members by multiple folds
Without Charlie Whiting as Race Director & Jean Todt as the FIA President, it all went downhill from there on for F1. Ben Sulayem's behaviour is so cynical that even drivers from other categories like WRC despise him.
None of the guys mentioned are "rally legends" - not a single WRC win between them to be honest...if you say "rally legend" Carlos Sainz Sr., Colin McRae, Juha Kankkunen, Sebastien Leob, Walter Rohrl or Miki Biasion come to mind...
@@thepolishnz the fancy stuff was in real life, what you meant to say is that it's useless in competition, i can't imagine Sebastien Loeb running around a moving segway just a few centimeters away from it, but when it came to racing he knew what he was doing at the wheel
I'm not a fan of MBS (both as FIA President and because of who he surrounds himself with), but I don't think he should be the one the blame's placed on (or at least most/all of it) with how Stefano Domenicali's ran Formula One/FOM and a lot of the stupid stuff he's said and done against the wishes of most fans (Sprints being increased, wanting to get rid of practice sessions, actively blocking Andretti from joining, etc). This while promoting F1 to be an even more exclusive boy's club (not just for those in it but also the fans, with ticket prizes only being less and less affordable) and trying to hurt sporting integrity in favor of gimmicks. Sulayem's done and said lots of stupid stuff, but if we're gonna say someone in the high sphere is "ruining" F1, Domenicali deserves as much heat, if not more. That being said, what the FIA has done to the WRC is atrocious.
They are different flavors of bad. MBS is self-centered and incompetent, Domenicali greedy and soulless. I guess it is a matter of taste which one is worse.
I would say Ben Sulayem is worse from a motorsport point of view - he wants the limelight and neglects the other forms of motorsport. After all he's publicly rued how the original Concorde Agreement was a mistake and wants the FIA to have a greater say in the running of F1 where to hell with the rest of the motorsport disciplines. I don't disagree with your view on Domenicali but the thing is that with FOM, it's kind of superfluous because no matter who is in charge there, they'd always show true naked greed. It doesn't matter if it's him, Toto or someone else, they will be the same no matter what.
@@heliumtrophy Exactly; there's NO comparison between Domenicali and MBS; all Stefano's been doing is his job (ie, promote the sport). Considering how much it's grown under Liberty Media, I'd think he's done very well.
The jewelry/piercing ban is NOT ridiculous. Here’s an idea. Since, as you say, a nipple piercing isn’t going to matter in a 40G crash, maybe consider the possibility that there are other circumstances where it would? Could it perhaps be less than ideal to have an MRI scan or a surgery delayed because the doctors have to spend time removing juvenile metal vanity shit from the driver’s body? Or maybe that having a metal pin in your nostril in a fire is a really bad idea.
You know, to me the problem is that people are acting like they have the right to tell other people what to do even when it’s clearly ridiculus to do so. I’m no doctor but to me this has nothing to do with safety. The case you are presenting maybe does apply to people madly covered with stuff in their body, certainly NOT to a couple of piercings here and there. Plus, if a person wants to wear those stuff, in case something happens it’s gonna be only THEIR problem, and no one else’s. Being Adult people = taking responsibility of your choices. So there’s no reason for enforcing those stupid (imo) bans. It’s not like HALO or Seatbelts wich are life-saving devices. We are talking about basic rights of free will within a person’s own private life; something that Bin Suck-a-Dick’s culture doesn’t really deal well with. That’s why a lot of people (me included) gets so frustrated when they hear stuff like this
There's about a 1 in 5000 chance that a modern F1 driver will have something serious happen to them (I'd say even drastically smaller than that with the halo, but that's literally just taking the amount of races and drivers since the last serious injury). 1 in 5000 just for the jewelry to even have a chance of mattering, which in the case of all the recent serious injuries, it still wouldn't have made a difference. So it is ridiculous. It's like mandating the teams to use different gear to change tyres because ONCE bottas' tyre got stuck. That jewelry will never make a difference, and if it's ever in a position to make a difference, it's likely that something much more basic has failed, such as tractors on track, or car safety structures. Focus on the big things. Not the 1/20000 cases.
Love it when people think people hate them for their media representation. Like naw man, maybe your decisions are just garbage. Take responsibility for your own weird, diet racist, prudishness.
It’s amazing how someone who speaks English can’t read English. MBS never said anything about penalizing drivers for swearing during races. They are just enforcing a no swearing policy during FIA press conferences.
@@vitreo1363 drivers aren’t penalized for it. You had leclerc swearing again in Vegas and absolutely nothing happened to him. It just wasn’t broadcasted.
I think the whole jewerly thing is a little unfair. After AD 21 teams were hounding the FIA to follow the rules as written and well that's what happened. Teams and drivers seemed to want to pick and choose which rules got enforced and which didn't. Also the jewellery rules isn't about safety for a crash but safety after a crash, if a driver needed an MRI after a crash it saves emergency crews pulling bits of metal out of them before hand.
@@betaichhaving jewelry can be a problem during scans. When I had an accident, my ring dented so bad, we couldn’t take it out. They had to saw the ring off just so they could scan my fingers
The MRI thing is not an issue; would be if it was a problem in real life, but hospitals deal with accidents of people with jewelry all the time, including people with WAY more piercings than anyone on the grid.
Agreed as long as no brit will take either of their places, british cheats should stay away from controlling both fia and f1 for the sake of motorsport
@@vitreo1363shitty street races, races in questionable countries, questionable sponsors. Yeah he may be a great CEO for F1 shareholders, but not for fans imo
i've had new bosses like this before. They don't care about whether what they change makes an improvement, only that it looks like they're doing a lot and making everyone dance to their tune. It's an ego thing. And the more people push back, the more the boss doubles down to show everyone they are in charge. Because to them it's not about making good changes, it's about making *my* changes.
This guy's crowing achievement for most people is that he was immortalized in Colin McRae: DiRT 2 by Codemasters. He was one of the NPCs racing against the player, he was voiced and could "react" to the player in passes/hits etc through radio messages. And even codies made sure that he basically always finishes last.
7:21 I said it before on Twitter, and I'll say it again here: "The men and women who compete in the highest levels of motorsport - regardless of discipline - are adults who are working in intense, high adrenaline environments with extreme pressure to achieve the best possible outcome. Swearing will happen whether people like it or not."
Yeah the adrenaline and pressure to sit in a F1 press conference interview. How do these multimillionaires handle it? Here i thought being a doctor was hard but these F1 drivers having to answer questions in an ACd room is just on another level.
@@paperplane-db8qf As far as i know doctors don't frequently hit 4G turns in a car that will spin over by pressing the throttle just a bit more, followed by trying to be fast and completely memorize braking spots and turns, and do this for 1.5 hours straight. Competitive drivers will get upset/angry if their car or strategy becomes worse.
Can f1 ditch the fia? The answer seems complicated. Would be an interesting video. Liberty media only has the licensing rights for 100 years right, not ownership?
The fia is the regulatory body that governs f1 racing. Liberty media only has the broadcast rights for the races. So no, they cannot break away. You would need a indy car/CART style breakaway to have a competitor to f1
The absolute worst part of all of this is that we're stuck with him until he reaches his term limit, assuming he doesn't find a way to eliminate them. He is guaranteed to be re-elected, I know all 221 members vote, but I saw something that basically said so long as he votes for himself he's guaranteed to win.
I don't want to protect the FIA here but the Susie Wolff thing wasn't/isn't something that shouldnt be looked at nonetheless. But i get that F1 is basically a "big family" where everyone can end up anywhere like Jean Todt or Domenicali.
Don't wanna sound rude or anything but I get the feeling he personally disagrees with stuff like piercings and swearing and that's why he's so keen on banning them... perhaps it's the same with political or social views
@andredeketeleastutecomplex Actually no. 2009 regulations laid the foundation for 2010 and 2012 which were the most competitive F1 seasons in this century.
2021 was the downfall. F1 needed a new poster boy so the fixed the championship harder then the tyson fight. And after that a guy became the boss who has no idea about racing or f1 in general.
The head of the FIA should be a former F1 driver ideally. I'd like new legislation which says something along the lines of "The FIA President must have previously competed in at least 2 full seasons of F1, F2, IndyCar or FE."
Choose the word / words Mohammed Ben Sulayem said on the radio after crashing the Renault R28 back in 2009 in Dubai: A) Fuck B) Shit C) Fucking Shit D) All of the above.
This guy is the opposite of Vettel. The rule mentioned at 6:04 is a big one. It bans political statements but you can make anything political which just bans all messaging that they don't approve
Yeah. I mean. Before him it was absolutely flawless piece of entertainment! So flawless indeed that I stopped watching it altogether somewhere around decade ago😂
MBS's main problem in my opinion is his totalitarian approach. We've seen that being problematic already back when guys like Jean Marie Balestre and Max Mosely were in charge of the FIA, as they had pretty much the same approach.
Agreed. BSM's administration has been more biased and chaotic than when Bernie/Mosely were running things. They need a FIA head who has experience driving and/or owning a team, not just someone who's wealthy and can buy their way into the position.
Let's advertise gambling, cryptocurrency and alcohol to our fans of all ages, but god forbid you swear at any point
TECHNICALLY, they don't advertise alcohol because it's banned in the UK/EU to advertise cigarettes and alcohol during sporting events. That's why they're sponsored by "Peroni 0%" or "Heineken 0%"
And how dare you advertise tobacco!
@@paigeconnelly4244Marlboro should start a bottled water division.
And Vuse
@@paigeconnelly4244 gambling is also banned, right?
Clicked faster than a Perez Q1 exit.
Well that´s easy, because Perez is extremely slow =)
Not saying I'd do it better though =(
If he's that slow in an RB imagine how slow he'd be in a sauber 😂😂
Love how this was the top comment on the F1 qualifying video today and since then I've seen it copied twice already 😂
Dude you commented before Perez even completed his in lap lol
Harsh but Fair.
This dude did the impossible of uniting all the TeamLH, Max fans and Lando fangirls against him.
Ahem…”Verstappen Shaggers” I believe is the alternate title for Max fans 🫡
Yep he's a talented bastard for all the wrong reasons.
There is just one single Narcissist behind the backlash towards Sulayem. A master manipulator. The first driver to bring outside politics and ideology into the sport.
@@richy69ifyyou really defending the FIA president??? You gotta be kidding the man is absolutely crazy
@@richy69ifyhello Mohammed
When a driver is at 320 km/h and nearly crashes swearing should be the smallest problem.
Except they aren't stopped from swearing. Just broadcasting it. The drivers aren't crashing at 320Km/h when they are sat in a chai doing a press conference. Every other sport prohibits the use of foul language. Look at the broadcast and you will see both the press and athletes told to refrain from swearing in front of the press
@@commonhead1844 Its still a stupid rule. If the fia want to have toddlerfriendly language they should stop being involved in any sort of exciting competition
@@commonhead1844 This comment must be from a burner account of the man himself or one of his aids
@@commonhead1844 Scared of words, are ya?
@@commonhead1844 it isn't. At least in Germany in Football.
Which country are you from?
watching the video so I can be a more informed Mohammed bin Sulayem hater.
😄
That's the whole idea behind this piece 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Same 🤣
Hate with facts!
@Mr.JimPickens show me one objective fact 🤣🤣🤣, I'll wait.
when george russell swears my first thought is that he may have actually been a member of Wu-Tang Clan pre racing career.
Word.
Actually he used to fly aeroplanes into buildings
Me personally, I think he used to live in O Block and run with King Von
ain't nuthin' ta fuck wit'
hahahaha
CREAM GET THE MONEY, DOLLAR DOLLAR BILLS YOOO
The astounding thing is that all these controversies are so unforced.
At every opportunity he seems to escalate the most minor of things out of sheer impulsiveness.
He's from a different culture and he acts differently which is a problem.
I’m waiting for him to try to put sharria law in to the mix….
Guy is absolutely F’in useless.
He has always had money and believes everyone should bow down to him.
@@SamBrickellTell me you know nothing about the history of F1 without telling me you know nothing about the sport of F1.
If you think controversy and money grubbing is unique to brown skin people, you need to go watch marble racing or something.
@SamBrickell True. His culture operates on respect (as a given, not earned), and when he feels disrespected, he goes on the attack.
It all seems a bit knee jerk and childish to me,honestly. The cursing thing I can understand for a press conference maybe,but he seems willing to die on that hill.
FIA: Sorry Josh Revell but you have been sentenced to community service for using abusive language and calling us clowns!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dont forget the €30,000 fine!
(half of that is suspended until you dare to ask where the money goes)
@@SmallBlogV8 Thanks! Should’ve included that! How did I forget that?! 😂
60 place penalty to max
lets not forget that when f1 raced at jeddah for the first time there were missile attacks outside the city and the fia threatened to withold drivers and teams passport if they refused to race
MBS wasn't the president back then but yeah it still was a shit show
@@hassanfuad778 mbs became president at the end of 2021, the missile attacks were in 2022. yes he was president and made those calls
That's also standard practice when dealing with foreign employees in Saudi. They take your passport and will make getting it back very very hard. So at least they treated the drivers as crappily as they do everyone else.
You forgot the Seb Vettel underwear issues where he wore them outside his overalls 😂
MBS cant stand swearing as his own country cant stand Human Rights.
Stay away from their embassies. You might get chopped up.
@@MoominDoogie That's Saudi Arabia not the UAE at least get the country's right.
@@teabagtowers3823 Both are just as bad.
you shouldn't bring in nationality into this debate.
@@vitreo1363It’s still stupid to say something about a different country
Wait, that one driver from Colin McRae Dirt 2 is now the FIA president? I mean, I knew he was a real rally driver, but my mind immediately went to that of all things.
Yep that's him
And, having heard this, initially I was like “Oh cool! I dunno much about him, but he was listed as a Pro in game, so he must’ve done something. This’ll be interesting.”
Uhhh, it’s been, interesting. That’s for sure.
@Exponaut_R-01 To be honest, when I first played Dirt 2 at the age of 9 or so, I thought he was a fake pro made up for the game, like the female drivers. He has no prominence compared to the other pros, even guys with seemingly little to do with rally, like Dave Mirra and Travis Pastrana. After learning about his FIA stint though...yeah, I kinda wish he was fake. He was so much cooler when I only knew him from the game.
"Driver" he is terrible and can't be call a driver for sure
@@Sparrow.31he was very good in rally
That shot of LH wearing 3 IWC watches is funny AF
You forgot to mention the fiasco regarding 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Where drivers were literally racing in the middle of war zone.
It's amazing how quickly that hollow "we race as one" message disappeared once Saudi Aramco and Qatar appeared on the schedule.
Ruebens Barrichello would be an exceptional FIA president
He definitely has a great feeling for drawn lines, as this used to be where he had to brake if he was ever in the lead.
It should be Hakinen.
or just the guy that lost the vote to MBS. tom kristensen mr le mans
He would be a better VP 😅
I nominate Raikkonen. Because we KNOW he hates the spotlight, so he's the exact opposite of MBS.
Me and all my homies hate MBS
It sounds like a disease.
I really had to make sure Josh didn’t say IBS, and then I remembered who we were talking about.
homies lmao, pathetic
It seems like any person with the initials MBS is bad news
He is the most hated man in F1.
I don't know you but I'm your homie
0:22 never thought I’d here Josh Revell say “blud” but here we are
Hear*
MBS was drunk AF when ge was making that announcement at the ceremony.
Isn't that haram? /S
@@VnVnV-893I think MBS operates on the old saying, “rules for thee but not for me”. Considering how he cusses like a damn sailor, it’s not beyond the realm of possibility.
@@VnVnV-893I mean, he’s from Dubai. I’ve met a few Dubai natives and they all drink when abroad because they can’t at home. Apparently it would put a bad look on their family. Everyone has to make sure they look religious but in reality only a minority actually believe in it. It’s also expensive there, but I don’t think that’s a factor for him lol
Also ruining the WRC. Get him gone ASAP.
I still don't understand why the WRC has to be downgraded year after year. The fastest car is the same as the slowest car. They even cancelled the paddle shifters. They cancelled the aerodynamics. Now they have cancelled the hybrids.
@GeometryEX-hp9zs Just madness in all honesty
@@GeometryEX-hp9zsgetting rid of the hybrid is the best thing possible for WRC. It is too expensive, to rebuild every time there is a crash’s which is very common in rally, the cars are too expensive cos of this meaning only Hyundai, Toyota and M Sport in the top category which is a disgrace.
They are changing the regulations for the better now, of course I agree that they clowned on the sport before, but now at least they are going to try to fix it.
One step back to take 2 steps forwards, similar to what WEC did after ending LMP1.
@@FCPortoAutomobilismo There is a fact that hybrids are not that expensive. WRC uses conversions of small displacement production cars. The conversion is what is really expensive. Toyota Corolla, Hyundai i20, Ford Focus. The only difference is whether they have factory support. Peugeot has completely withdrawn, and I see many drivers have also chosen to withdraw. WRC is basically finished. M-sport lost the technical support of the factory team a few years ago. There are almost no teams in this category. Three teams are really too few. And because they use small displacement production cars, hybridization is not a problem. Do you really understand what a production car is? ?
@@FCPortoAutomobilismo WEC LMP1 LMP2 and now Hypercar are custom cars, they are very expensive. F1 is also expensive because they are custom cars. Only one or two cars are produced. WEC GT class is production car, and the whole WRC is production car. Production car means people can drive these cars on the road. The biggest difference between race car and road car is the degree of modification. The rest is the same. It is clear that WRC is not just declining. This race is just one breath away from death. The race lacks the necessary broadcast support and has too many restrictions, so car manufacturers are unwilling to invest in it. The first to leave the event are car manufacturers, then advertising sponsors, and then drivers.
11:42 rip Josh
theyre so trigger happy with fines recently, truly suspicious shit when they dont say where the fine money goes
MBS is like the school discipline principal with severe trauma from childhood. So he takes it’s out on everyone else
Fernando should be the FIA boss (Maximum penalties)
"Where is Palmer".... karma. Gotta love Alonso
Equal engines, for everyone
It's a yoke
@@bigguy8435 That's COMMUNISM!
If you swear, you use GP2 engine next race
100% agreed. The rot starts at the top. He is a walking PR disaster and he is damaging the sport. His tenure has been nothing short of chaotic.
Honestly when you consider Bernie Eccelstone and now Sulayem, Jean Todt doesn't look that bad by comparison.
From a "leaders of motorsport" perspective, I totally agree. Neither were good leaders, but Bernie was the leader of F1, not FIA. He was essentially what Liberty Media is, now. So just garbage all around at the top, lol.
Bernie was the owner and CEO of F1. He had nothing to do with FIA
That 2022 price giving ceremony was so awkward with Bin Sulayem
It's a good day when Josh Revell drops
Damn, never would have expected a “Imma let you finish” moment from a F1 trophy presentation.
Main Character Syndrome is exactly how I'd describe him.
He needs to be fired
He's from a different culture and he acts differently which is a problem.
The FIA hold presidential elections next year...
@@SamBrickell He acts like a petty tyrant and, despite being publicly called on it multiple times, refuses to get the message. THAT is the problem.
He can't be, we're stuck with him until he reaches his term limits, unless he agrees to step down, but that won't happen.
@magnussencube and everyone knew they needed to get rid of sepp later at fifa but that never happened
what do yall expect from a guy like that coming from a culture like that, in that position only because of money.
I can’t believe he has lasted this long.
How is this guy still destroying the FIA and Formula 1?
We need proof where the $ from the fines is going.
Good luck with that
@ unfortunately luck isn’t the issue, it’s Sulayem.
So that's the clown who smashed a formula 1 car into a wall in a straight line? Momo needs to go!
I thought Josh was joking about Todt being married to Michelle Yeoh until I looked it up
I looked her up after watching Tomorrow Never Dies a few years back and saw she was married to Jean Todt and I was like "what a score for him."
She must like short and funny looking Frenchmen with a bit wallet
I saw him sitting next to her when she won her Oscar, and thought it was just a movie producer with a weirdly striking resemblance to Jean Todt.
I was watching the Oscars this year, and out of no where Jean Todt showed up beside Michelle Yeoh. That's how i found out. Jean Todt, +100000 aura
They’ve been in a relationship for over 20 years. I first knew about it when I read that Michael Schumacher had the Chinese dragon graphic on his helmet to demonstrate his skills in the wet, as suggested by Michele Yeoh, Todt’s girlfriend, and I was like wait a minute😮
I would like to nominate Sebastien Vettel for FIA president. The man truly loves motorsports and know everything there is to know about it's rules and history. I am 100% sure he would make a fair and unbiased president. If he is not made president, at least offer him a job as race director.
He’s too obsessed trying to package F1 as a PG entertainment, instead of being concerned about real racing.
Lets just all hope someone new is elected in 2025 - someone get Ross Brawn back into F1 ASAP.
Ross Brawn would be an excellent FIA president, way better than Jean Todt and let alone MBS
Cheers for the new upload.
Just noticed the background music was much louder than the speech itself, dont recall previous video had such attribute.
The background music is always too loud, it's why I never watch his content. I'll occasionally click on a video to see if he's finally fixed it and he never has lmao, been like 2 years now.
@ lol, i not aware of it until his latest upload which i am listening via headphone.
His previous video was watched via speaker so maybe no that obvious 😂
@@hamtairo Yeah it's much more watchable when I use my speakers but I only really like using them for music or if I have guests round, I like the content but not enough to change my outputs lmao
Hey, thats me in the finish stand @1:48 lol
I was on the Start/Finish crew for last years USGP at COTA, got to waive the checker flag for each quali session. We were doing a debrief with a gal from the FIA as everyone rolled into the pits.
MBS coming the UAE says everything you need to know about him. No sense of common sense, the constant need of attention, and need to become a control freak on the most insignificant things. Everything he does was probably manufactured from bribery given the fact he was more rich than any other FIA members by multiple folds
Without Charlie Whiting as Race Director & Jean Todt as the FIA President, it all went downhill from there on for F1.
Ben Sulayem's behaviour is so cynical that even drivers from other categories like WRC despise him.
Fun fact. You can race against Ben Sulayem in Colin McRae: DiRT 2, along with other rally legends like Ken Block, Dave Mirra, and Tanner Foust.
None of the guys mentioned are "rally legends" - not a single WRC win between them to be honest...if you say "rally legend" Carlos Sainz Sr., Colin McRae, Juha Kankkunen, Sebastien Leob, Walter Rohrl or Miki Biasion come to mind...
Ken block. The most over rated driver in any sport. Sure he was good at fancy stuff, but that's useless when it comes to real life.
@@thepolishnz the fancy stuff was in real life, what you meant to say is that it's useless in competition, i can't imagine Sebastien Loeb running around a moving segway just a few centimeters away from it, but when it came to racing he knew what he was doing at the wheel
5:26 Why am I tempted to say “Kowalski! Status report!” in this very instant?
I'm not a fan of MBS (both as FIA President and because of who he surrounds himself with), but I don't think he should be the one the blame's placed on (or at least most/all of it) with how Stefano Domenicali's ran Formula One/FOM and a lot of the stupid stuff he's said and done against the wishes of most fans (Sprints being increased, wanting to get rid of practice sessions, actively blocking Andretti from joining, etc). This while promoting F1 to be an even more exclusive boy's club (not just for those in it but also the fans, with ticket prizes only being less and less affordable) and trying to hurt sporting integrity in favor of gimmicks. Sulayem's done and said lots of stupid stuff, but if we're gonna say someone in the high sphere is "ruining" F1, Domenicali deserves as much heat, if not more.
That being said, what the FIA has done to the WRC is atrocious.
They are different flavors of bad. MBS is self-centered and incompetent, Domenicali greedy and soulless. I guess it is a matter of taste which one is worse.
Excatly that. If MBS deserved this kind of video then Domenicali and FOM sure as hell deserve one too
I would say Ben Sulayem is worse from a motorsport point of view - he wants the limelight and neglects the other forms of motorsport. After all he's publicly rued how the original Concorde Agreement was a mistake and wants the FIA to have a greater say in the running of F1 where to hell with the rest of the motorsport disciplines.
I don't disagree with your view on Domenicali but the thing is that with FOM, it's kind of superfluous because no matter who is in charge there, they'd always show true naked greed. It doesn't matter if it's him, Toto or someone else, they will be the same no matter what.
@@heliumtrophy Exactly; there's NO comparison between Domenicali and MBS; all Stefano's been doing is his job (ie, promote the sport). Considering how much it's grown under Liberty Media, I'd think he's done very well.
You can't complain about being vilified if you are a villain.
MBS’s drunken stupor and verbal vomit at the FIA Gala was far more embarrassing and damaging to F1 and motorsport as a whole than any swearing.
The jewelry/piercing ban is NOT ridiculous.
Here’s an idea. Since, as you say, a nipple piercing isn’t going to matter in a 40G crash, maybe consider the possibility that there are other circumstances where it would?
Could it perhaps be less than ideal to have an MRI scan or a surgery delayed because the doctors have to spend time removing juvenile metal vanity shit from the driver’s body? Or maybe that having a metal pin in your nostril in a fire is a really bad idea.
you talk like getting jewlery and piercings out takes hours, mri's take time to do and 2 minutes to yank them is not that significant
True. While I don't understand why that has not been enforced, for safety reasons, that one I can get behind.
You know, to me the problem is that people are acting like they have the right to tell other people what to do even when it’s clearly ridiculus to do so. I’m no doctor but to me this has nothing to do with safety. The case you are presenting maybe does apply to people madly covered with stuff in their body, certainly NOT to a couple of piercings here and there. Plus, if a person wants to wear those stuff, in case something happens it’s gonna be only THEIR problem, and no one else’s. Being Adult people = taking responsibility of your choices. So there’s no reason for enforcing those stupid (imo) bans. It’s not like HALO or Seatbelts wich are life-saving devices. We are talking about basic rights of free will within a person’s own private life; something that Bin Suck-a-Dick’s culture doesn’t really deal well with. That’s why a lot of people (me included) gets so frustrated when they hear stuff like this
There's about a 1 in 5000 chance that a modern F1 driver will have something serious happen to them (I'd say even drastically smaller than that with the halo, but that's literally just taking the amount of races and drivers since the last serious injury).
1 in 5000 just for the jewelry to even have a chance of mattering, which in the case of all the recent serious injuries, it still wouldn't have made a difference.
So it is ridiculous. It's like mandating the teams to use different gear to change tyres because ONCE bottas' tyre got stuck.
That jewelry will never make a difference, and if it's ever in a position to make a difference, it's likely that something much more basic has failed, such as tractors on track, or car safety structures. Focus on the big things. Not the 1/20000 cases.
Think of how many people have gotten into accidents on the road, who happen to be entirely covered in piercings, and hospitals handle it just fine…
10:15 I saw this and RocketPoweredMohawk's clip played in my head automatically XD
HE WAS SHELTERING ENEMIES OF THE STATE IN HIS TROUSERS!!!
You introduce a *certain kind* of person into a role and you have to expect *certain kinds* of problems.
Love it when people think people hate them for their media representation. Like naw man, maybe your decisions are just garbage. Take responsibility for your own weird, diet racist, prudishness.
He's always going to be "That dude that was rallying in Dirt 2"
calling lh a rapper for sumn mv and cl did is a whole other level of crazy
We got Josh fixing his upload schedule before GTA 6
Its just weird to me how a guy that was a racing driver himself doesnt understand that heat of the moment cursing is very normal for a driver
It’s amazing how someone who speaks English can’t read English.
MBS never said anything about penalizing drivers for swearing during races. They are just enforcing a no swearing policy during FIA press conferences.
@@paperplane-db8qf Actually the ban includes radio transmissions.
@@vitreo1363 drivers aren’t penalized for it. You had leclerc swearing again in Vegas and absolutely nothing happened to him. It just wasn’t broadcasted.
@@paperplane-db8qf How do you know he swore if it wasn't broadcast?
@ because F1TV has live unfiltered radio. And other sources already said Leclerc had a meltdown.
I thought you had to be considered of decent character to be able to suffer character assassination.
I think the whole jewerly thing is a little unfair. After AD 21 teams were hounding the FIA to follow the rules as written and well that's what happened. Teams and drivers seemed to want to pick and choose which rules got enforced and which didn't. Also the jewellery rules isn't about safety for a crash but safety after a crash, if a driver needed an MRI after a crash it saves emergency crews pulling bits of metal out of them before hand.
or good forbiid they overlook a bit of juwelery like a piercing and do the mri, the machine will be toast and with bad luck the driver too.
@@betaichhaving jewelry can be a problem during scans. When I had an accident, my ring dented so bad, we couldn’t take it out. They had to saw the ring off just so they could scan my fingers
The MRI thing is not an issue; would be if it was a problem in real life, but hospitals deal with accidents of people with jewelry all the time, including people with WAY more piercings than anyone on the grid.
Josh getting community service with this one🗣️🗣️🗣️💯💯💯
Both him and Stefano Domenicali need to go.
Didn’t SD already leave?
No. Apparently, there were rumors he was going to, but those were false.
Agreed as long as no brit will take either of their places, british cheats should stay away from controlling both fia and f1 for the sake of motorsport
Stefano hasn't done anything he needs to leave for. Just grown the sport overall.
@@vitreo1363shitty street races, races in questionable countries, questionable sponsors. Yeah he may be a great CEO for F1 shareholders, but not for fans imo
i've had new bosses like this before. They don't care about whether what they change makes an improvement, only that it looks like they're doing a lot and making everyone dance to their tune. It's an ego thing. And the more people push back, the more the boss doubles down to show everyone they are in charge. Because to them it's not about making good changes, it's about making *my* changes.
This guy's crowing achievement for most people is that he was immortalized in Colin McRae: DiRT 2 by Codemasters. He was one of the NPCs racing against the player, he was voiced and could "react" to the player in passes/hits etc through radio messages. And even codies made sure that he basically always finishes last.
That "Oversimplified" bg music reminds me there's not been a new upload in a while 😢
C'on Josh you can't blame MBS for the rapper comment .... everyone knows MC Blimey is the real Grime MC of F1 😎
I love the little glance Stefano gives Horner, it’s the look that says ‘this guy is talking out his ass.’
Bring Gunther as the next president!
Your background music is kinda loud sometimes, your voice should stand out a bit more i think. Great content.
7:21 I said it before on Twitter, and I'll say it again here:
"The men and women who compete in the highest levels of motorsport - regardless of discipline - are adults who are working in intense, high adrenaline environments with extreme pressure to achieve the best possible outcome. Swearing will happen whether people like it or not."
Yeah the adrenaline and pressure to sit in a F1 press conference interview. How do these multimillionaires handle it?
Here i thought being a doctor was hard but these F1 drivers having to answer questions in an ACd room is just on another level.
@@paperplane-db8qf As far as i know doctors don't frequently hit 4G turns in a car that will spin over by pressing the throttle just a bit more, followed by trying to be fast and completely memorize braking spots and turns, and do this for 1.5 hours straight.
Competitive drivers will get upset/angry if their car or strategy becomes worse.
@@paperplane-db8qf The ban includes radio transmissions.
Perfect time to appoint someone like Mr. Ross Brawn
Can f1 ditch the fia? The answer seems complicated. Would be an interesting video. Liberty media only has the licensing rights for 100 years right, not ownership?
The fia is the regulatory body that governs f1 racing. Liberty media only has the broadcast rights for the races. So no, they cannot break away. You would need a indy car/CART style breakaway to have a competitor to f1
THANK YOU for finally talking about this clown
outpacing 2 camels doesn’t make you a rally champion
precisely
The absolute worst part of all of this is that we're stuck with him until he reaches his term limit, assuming he doesn't find a way to eliminate them. He is guaranteed to be re-elected, I know all 221 members vote, but I saw something that basically said so long as he votes for himself he's guaranteed to win.
I don't want to protect the FIA here but the Susie Wolff thing wasn't/isn't something that shouldnt be looked at nonetheless.
But i get that F1 is basically a "big family" where everyone can end up anywhere like Jean Todt or Domenicali.
at first i only saw the title, and was wondering which clown we are talking about, and there have been quite a few these last years.
Don't wanna sound rude or anything but I get the feeling he personally disagrees with stuff like piercings and swearing and that's why he's so keen on banning them... perhaps it's the same with political or social views
100%. Nobody cared until he decided this was his #1 priority.
Wasn't the underwear issue under his too?! Seems like a funny missed opportunity to include that.
Great video all the same.
F1 was ruined since 2014
PS: I'm referring to the regulations when I say this.
Make that 2009.
@andredeketeleastutecomplex Actually no. 2009 regulations laid the foundation for 2010 and 2012 which were the most competitive F1 seasons in this century.
I thought it was Lance Stroll🤔
Lol you're stupid.
Stroll ain't going nowhere numbnuts
2021 was the downfall. F1 needed a new poster boy so the fixed the championship harder then the tyson fight. And after that a guy became the boss who has no idea about racing or f1 in general.
dts fan. Downfall of f1 was after 2013.
My hope is that vasseur, after his Ferrari adventure, would become the new jean todt to make this soprt great again
The head of the FIA should be a former F1 driver ideally. I'd like new legislation which says something along the lines of "The FIA President must have previously competed in at least 2 full seasons of F1, F2, IndyCar or FE."
adding in fake bass to your voice over powers everything
Choose the word / words Mohammed Ben Sulayem said on the radio after crashing the Renault R28 back in 2009 in Dubai:
A) Fuck
B) Shit
C) Fucking Shit
D) All of the above.
He probably said ALLAH WAKBAR!!!
Eddie Jordan for president of the FIA
That’s some Coldfusion kinda shit at 2:30
This guy is the opposite of Vettel. The rule mentioned at 6:04 is a big one. It bans political statements but you can make anything political which just bans all messaging that they don't approve
Thought it was meant for stroll but okay I'll allow it
6:59 Crikey!
Remember, Josh isn't suicidal. A mad man sure but not suicidal
The scream for him to step down should be louder and need to grow quicker.
bring Masi back
Today, I learned than Jean Todt married Michelle Yeoh 😮
Not sure how you can have any awareness of Todt and not know that. She was always at GPs with him.
personally whenever any driver swears i immediately turn off the tv in disgrace
Banning pitwall celebrations, burnouts, track limits, new overtaking rules, banning swearing, jewelry, FIA is a joke
Max is Champion! 🎉 4x
Yeah. I mean. Before him it was absolutely flawless piece of entertainment! So flawless indeed that I stopped watching it altogether somewhere around decade ago😂
MBS's main problem in my opinion is his totalitarian approach. We've seen that being problematic already back when guys like Jean Marie Balestre and Max Mosely were in charge of the FIA, as they had pretty much the same approach.
What's funny I think is most people know ben as one of the friends in Dirt 2
RPM has really changed the landscape 🥰🥰🥰
Agreed. BSM's administration has been more biased and chaotic than when Bernie/Mosely were running things. They need a FIA head who has experience driving and/or owning a team, not just someone who's wealthy and can buy their way into the position.