A fireplace marshal has misplaced his job after he mentioned he ‘hoped’ Lewis Hamilton suffered an analogous crash to the fireball which engulfed Romain Grosjean in 2020
A Formulation 1 marshal who wrote on Twitter that he ‘hoped’ Lewis Hamilton would turn into concerned in an analogous accident to the one which engulfed F1 driver Romain Grosjean in 2020 has been faraway from his publish forward of Sunday’s Grand Prix in Saudi Arabia.
Writing on Twitter in a message which was translated to English from Arabic, the marshal mentioned, “I hope he has an accident like Roman (sic) accident in Bahrain.“
The offending social media publish was a reference to the grotesque fireball which engulfed the Haas automotive of Swiss-French driver Romain Grosjean which occurred after he hit a barrier at excessive pace, breaking the automotive in two and igniting the wreckage into flames.
Grosjean was momentarily trapped in his race seat earlier than releasing himself and happily suffered solely minor burn accidents to his palms.
The one who wrote the tweet had an image of Hamilton’s title rival Max Verstappen as his Twitter avatar.
The tweet was particularly poorly-timed given the that Sunday’s second race of the brand new season had been positioned into doubt by a missile assault which struck a close-by gasoline depot simply six miles from the positioning of the race.
I DON’T FUCKING CARE FROM WHICH FANBASE YOU ARE, this shit must be ADDRESSED BY THE FIA AND F1. It is a fucking FIRE MARSHALL who needs hurt to Lewis. Based mostly on his current posts, he’s at the moment marshalling in Saudi. pic.twitter.com/0qUQQ3UTcD
— maja 🏳️🌈 (@formulamaja) March 26, 2022
He was simply fired pic.twitter.com/ijC2hosRph
— Fadi (@Fadi_961) March 26, 2022
The tweet was subsequently dropped at the eye of the FIA and race organizers, who instructed The Solar that the person in questions has been “faraway from his publish”.
It was additionally reported that the one that wrote the tweet had additionally expressed their fury at Hamilton’s challenges to Saudi Arabia’s human rights document, saying: “The Saudi authorities don’t reply to canine.“
A subsequent Twitter message from the identical individual later confirmed that he would not be attending the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in his capability as a hearth marshal, and likewise apologized to Hamilton for his feedback.
“I provide my apologies to the Saudi Motorsports and Motorbike Federation,“ they wrote, once more by way of translation.
“And for driver Lewis Hamilton.
“On my earlier tweet, I introduced my withdrawal from the ring [race].“