Formula One’s Mercedes and Ferrari team bosses have been served with official warnings after swearing in a news conference. Stewards said the language used by Toto Wolff and Frederic Vasseur was “unacceptable” for people who had “high public profiles” and were “role models”. In both cases, the stewards accepted there were “mitigating circumstances” involved that led to the use of swear words. Governing body the FIA said the language was “not consistent with” its values. The report issued by stewards into the incident said Ferrari boss Vasseur “was extremely upset and frustrated by the incident that had occurred in FP1 and that language such as this, by him, was not usual”. The report said: “The use of the language concerned was in this case unusual and was provoked by an abrupt interjection during the press conference and therefore cannot be regarded as typical from this team principal.”.

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