WhiteBlue wrote:It is called a celebration. It is extremely unsporting and bad mannered to spoil the celebration of a sporting event because you do not emotionally agree with the winner. Do you think it would be accepted at the olympics? Bad manners do not belong in the sport as personal attacks do not belong on F1technical. I simply do not want to see such things. I agree with complaining about the politics and tactics of teams but when they win fair and square you have to respect that and congratulate them. This booing is done by a small band of rich Tiffosi at least according to Red Bull who have the money to travel to races and spoil the podiums for Red Bull when Vettel wins. I think that F1 needs to do something about it. If the fans consistently misbehave the podium interviews will have to stop and they must go back to a controlled environment that cannot be manipulated by a few people who are prepared to spoil the celebration for their own narrow minded and selfish agenda.
Red Bull claims it is a group of rich tifosi, yet I've not seen this claim made elsewhere. Interesting that we are accepting Red Bull's claim that it's a bunch of Ferrari fans.
That aside, I recall the British fans cheering Schumacher's crash at Silverstone in '99...only stopping when they realized he was injured.
Then there was Hockenheim a few months later, when Hakkinen's rear wing failed and he spun off at 190MPH and went head-on into the tire barrier. The roar of the crowd was deafening when they saw that happen.
At Watkins Glen back in I believe it was '73, the fans set fire to someone's Winnebago for no other reason than to do it.
Who can also forget the Italian fans swarming the track at Monza decades ago to strip down all the race cars they could get their hands on? Or the British fans doing the same thing when Nigel won in 1992?
The idea that booing is a terrific horror show is ludicrous considering past deeds by fans in general at F1 events.
Only you would think F1 needs to do something about it. The fans pay money to attend these races. So long as they aren't attempting to throw things, assault drivers, or create a otherwise unsafe environment, they are free to boo as much as they'd like. Not everyone likes the winner of a race. That's their given right to boo, no matter how much you dislike it. Booing at sporting events has been around since time immemorial. It's not going away. Considering the behavior that goes on at football games, booing a winning driver is trivial when you have people throwing bananas onto the pitch at black players.
There's a reason fan is a shortened version of the word fanatic. Fanatic just has --understandably-- negative connotations attached to it.
