Spare a thought for Michael Masi, the F1 race director who couldn’t have made more of a balls-up of his role this season if he’d drunk 16 pints before each race. But despite how bad he’s been, the level of hatred spouting from social media really is dreadful. It’s just a bloody sport – people need to calm down.
Or do they? F1 is back as a box office offering and people have an opinion about it. Every sport has its Drive to Survive moment – or it hopes it does – when a sudden influx of new fans appears and exerts its mass on the spectacle. The problem is this time it’s happened in the Twitter era, so we have a few million faceless idiots trying to be nothing but offensive and with little knowledge of the sport. The idea they might calm down is clearly laughable.