Max Verstappen’s decision to eject a journalist from a press briefing at the Japanese Grand Prix shone a spotlight on the dynamic between Formula 1 drivers and the media.Opinions were certainly very divided about the rights and wrongs of what had happened.Some suggested that Verstappen was out of order in doing what he did in such a public way. Others said he was well justified to act like that because the fault lay elsewhere.But wherever anyone stood on the matter, there was one undeniable truth: this was not the first time that a driver and a journalist had clashed like this, and it certainly would not be the last.Relations between drivers and journalists ebb and flow all the time; and tensions can rise for a range of reasons.Sometimes it is the result of criticism, sometimes it is an awkward question. It may even be for writing the truth or for publishing a story that drivers …
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Author: Jon Noble
