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The FIA has announced details of what reigning Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen’s 'community service' will consist of for swearing in an FIA press conference.
Verstappen was slapped with F1’s answer to community service - the FIA calls it 'work of public interest' - for using a single swear word when describing his Red Bull on the eve of the Singapore Grand Prix in October earlier this year.
That was the first public example of the FIA’s clampdown on bad language, led by president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, with Charles Leclerc later fined for swearing after the Mexican GP.
Verstappen’s community service will be completed in Rwanda while he’s already in the country to attend the end-of-season FIA awards ceremony as F1’s 2024 world champion.
He will “undertake some work with junior competitors as part of the grassroots development programme organised by the Rwanda Automobile Club (RAC)”.
Those activities will involve an FIA affordable cross car, built by the RAC from blueprints provided by the FIA.
Those blueprints have been delivered to a global network of 147 National Sporting Authorities including Rwanda.
It will be the second period of FIA community service Verstappen has served, having previously attended Formula E’s 2019 Marrakech E-Prix as an observer to the stewards as part of his punishment for his altercation with Esteban Ocon at the 2018 Brazilian GP.
