Daniel Ricciardo acknowledged that fervent supporters are beneficial to the sport, but he issued a warning that they sometimes go too far.
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The mainly Dutch audience applauded Lewis Hamilton’s serious crash in Q3 in Austria, while Max Verstappen received both jeers and cheers for his spin in qualifying at the previous race in Silverstone. Hamilton said that what occurred at Silverstone was equally incorrect, but he described the applause in Austria as “mind blowing.” Like other drivers, Daniel Ricciardo acknowledged that fervent supporters are beneficial to the sport, but he issued a warning that they sometimes go too far.
“I’ve never been a fan of booing, so I don’t condone booing. But of course, you’re going to have the ones you like, and the ones that you don’t necessarily root for. It’s like any sport, you’re always going to have for and against. And so I think on-track battles and that, to be cheered or whatever, is cool. But I think in an accident, you wish not to see it. I’m not going to control the grandstands and all of their emotions.” said Riciardo.
“I think when you’re on the other side of the barrier, whether it’s football, whether it’s motorsport, sometimes people forget there’s a human being inside that. We’re all risking our lives here, and we know just recently the dangers that are involved in motorsport. When you’re going around at 300km/h and somebody is cheering you crashing into the wall… I don’t know what the wording is. We’re all human beings; drivers, engineers, media, fans. And there’s no justification to boo somebody, for any reason, or to cheer.” opined George Russell.
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The other Mclaren driver Lando Norris suggested that sometimes that could happen to you as an athlete, he added one could call it life and just move on. “It’s not what you like to see, especially when it was quite a big crash. I don’t know what you can do about it. It’s not a nice thing, of course, we would not want it, but it also feels a little bit like it’s life, and it’s what fans do sometimes.” expressed the Mclaren driver.
Further up we have the French Grand Prix coming up this weekend on July 24th.
