The FIA has written to all Formula One team's to warn them about their driver's conduct during media interviews. In a letter addressed to all the team's the FIA stated that the use of foul language is not acceptable.
The letter comes in the wake of the Abu Dhabi GrandPrix podium interviews where both Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel swore while being interviewed by the BBC's David Coulthard. After winning his first race since his comeback in Abu Dhabi Kimi mentioned that he won't have to take s**t from you guy's (ie the media).
When Sebastian Vettel was being interviewed on the podium he told DC that we was glad the team hadn't f***ed up to which David Coulthard apologized to fan's by reminding us that English is both Kimi and Vettel's second language, still it was no excuse.
In my opinion Formula One should adopt a similar system to what is currently in place in the NASCAR Series in the US. In June of this year NASCAR star Kurt Busch was suspended for a week for a rant at a reporter where he threatened to beat the c**p out of the reporter.
Formula One should considering bringing this in for next season's championship. The sport has become so media orientated with each team having their own press officer and media relation's people. For example in 'The Pen' as it's known where all the driver's go after the races for the post race interviews they each have a media rep who records the interviews.
The BBC confirmed today that they received 22 phone complaints about the language used. So it will be interesting to see how this story develops.
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