Sky Sports F1 presenter, Rachel Brookes, openly spoke of the “cowardly abuse” suffered after the weekend of the Spanish Grand Prix.
Brookes led several very stretched interviews with the pilots after what was a dramatic race in Barcelona.
Max Verstappen has adopted a fiery attitude towards the radio host after, apparently, he intentionally clashed with George Russell of Mercedes, who also stretched in the post-game interview in an attempt to condemn Verstappen’s actions.
In addition to this, Lewis Hamilton appeared quite depressed when he spoke of his “terrible” day in Spain, even going to tell Brookes that “he doesn’t know what else to say”.
Later Hamilton apologized to Brookes for behaving that way during the interview, as revealed by David Croft at the F1 Show.
However, Brookes has now revealed that he received a huge amount of online insults after the Spanish GP, describing the actions he had to take while the F1 moved to Canada.
“I arrived in Montreal for the race weekend of the Canada GP. One of my favorite events scheduled,” he wrote in a story on his Instagram page.
“I will continue to publish here as usual, but comments/tags/mentions here and on X have been deactivated for the near future due to the enormous amount of vile insults that I received after the Spanish GP.
“I could rekindle them later, but for now they will remain off. It’s time to go for a run, it will be an exciting weekend!”
Spain’s drama overflows in interviews
Verstappen’s move on Russell cost him a 10 -second penalty, which made him go down to 10th in the final classification, but since then the question has been the subject of heated debates.
In his fiery post-gara interview with Brookes, Verstappen asked the conductor if he was relevant if his collision with Russell had been intentional or not.
The Dutchman then continued saying that he would prefer to talk about the entire race, apparently trying to pass the accident completely in silence, but concluded the interview saying that according to Brookes his move could have diminished his driving skills.
The abuses online against the F1 Paddock staff seem to worsen: Lee McKenzie of Channel 4 recently spoke openly the abuses of which she was the victim.
In addition to all this, the pilots Yuki Tsunoda, Jack Doohan and Franco Colapinto were all subject to terrible abuses during the Imola GP weekend, pushing the president of the Fia Mohammed Ben Sularyem to issue an official statement on the matter.
The FIA also promoted its United Against online campaign abuse, aimed at trying to face the problem
