FORMULA ONE drivers have asked the FIA to treat them like adults amid the sport’s swearing row and urged president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to consider his own “language.”

Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc have both been punished in recent weeks, with the Dutchman asked to “accomplish some work of public interest” after describing his car as “f*****” during a news conference at the Singapore Grand Prix.

Ben Sulayem said in an interview with Autosport ahead of that race that the grid’s stars had a responsibility to stop swearing on the radio and that they should not act like rappers.