Despite the fact that the circus has already moved to another race wekeend, this time in Imola someone is not over what happened in Portugal. As you may remember, Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll collided during the second free practice session at turn one, causing the second red flag of the session. During the occasion, Max Verstappen freed himself on the radio, saying bad things on Stroll, who closed on him and caused the contact. 

"Is this fu***g guy blind? What the f**k is wrong with him? Jesus Christ. What a retard. I have damage. What a mongol. I swear."

Obviously, there has been a debate going on about this radio message, and also Lando Norris, who also went off on the radio during the race, apologized for his words. It is clear that some words definitely hurt everyone's sensibility and should not be used, and we don't want to justify Verstappen at all, but it is also true that these guys are humans, are competing against each other and it is may hard to keep it together when anger rises. Verstappen himself apologized later on Friday, saying the words he used were "not the right ones" and that he "never intended to offend anybody". 

The Mongolian government, instead, felt touched directly by the Dutchman words, and released an oper letter asking for the driver's apologies. A letter was also sent to Dietrich Mateschitz, CEO of Red Bull GmbH, and Tobias Moers, CEO of Red Bull Racing's title sponsor Aston Martin, to express his disappointment with Verstappen's language over the radio.

The letters all reports the same message, expressed by Mongolia's ambassador to the United Nations and World Trade Organisation: Purevsuren said he is "confident" that the FIA would take further action against the driver. 

"I regret the use of racist and unethical language in public by Red Bull driver Max Verstappen during the practice of the Portuguese Grand Prix of the Formula One World Championship on 23 October 2020, sport is considered a symbol of unity all over the world and I believe that there should not be any form of racial discrimination in sports.

"I support the 'We Race as One' initiative of the Formula 1 against racism. But due to the abovementioned incident, I doubt that this initiative meets the reality.

"I am confident that in order to prevent the recurrence of such unethical behaviour in sports, the International Automobile Federation (FIA) will take actions against Red Bull driver Max Verstappen for his unacceptable behaviour of repeatedly using racist and derogatory language against any ethnic groups."

The only one who commented about the episode was Christian Horner, Red Bull team principal, saying he already spoke to Max. 

"Max did not mean to cause offence," Horner said. "They were made in the heat of the moment when emotions were running high."