– System One championship chief Max Verstappen on Sunday slammed followers who burned Lewis Hamilton-branded merchandise, calling their actions disgusting.
“That’s in fact not acceptable,” the Crimson Bull driver, who beat Mercedes rival Hamilton to final 12 months’s title in a controversial season-finale, instructed reporters after successful the Hungarian Grand Prix.
“These people, I positively don’t agree with that as a result of that’s simply disgusting.”
Verstappen, System One’s youngest race winner and the primary Dutch world champion, has a legion of followers dubbed the ‘Orange Military’ that observe him around the globe.
Footage circulating on social media over the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend appeared to indicate followers burning Hamilton merchandise.
It adopted stories of drunken males harassing feminine followers, homophobic chants and racist abuse on the Austrian Grand Prix earlier this month, Crimson Bull’s residence race which was full of Verstappen supporters.
The following race in Belgium, the place Verstappen was born, is one other Orange Military stronghold with the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, the 24-year-old’s residence race, following the week after.
The incidents in Austria prompted System One to launch its ‘Drive it Out’ anti-abuse initiative on Saturday.
Verstappen, sitting alongside second-placed Hamilton within the post-race press convention, mentioned the vast majority of his followers had been typically respectful.
“General I feel the vast majority of the followers… which additionally had been cheering so much all through the race and in addition on the rostrum for each driver, I feel that’s the way it must be,” he mentioned.
“The video of burning merch, I feel that’s disgusting,” he mentioned.
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