Formula 2 Driver Blasts Race Organisers In Sweary Radio Outburst

If you thought Fernando Alonso’s “GP2 engine! GP2! Arrghh!” was team radio gold, you ain’t heard nothing yet. What we have here is an emotional outburst from Arjun Maini after finishing 13th in the Formula 2 sprint race at Paul Ricard last weekend, and it’s pretty spectacular.

If you can’t quite understand it in the video above, let us help you:

“I swear you guys don’t support me at all, I do everything, every f—-ing thing I can, every f—-ing session. You can’t do this to me mate, I have no f—-ing power out of the corner, why doesn’t anybody f—-ing believe me? I don’t want to race in the championship any more.”

Yikes. It was initially thought the Indian driver was taking aim at his team, but it seems it was the race organisers he was bringing to task. Speaking to Motorsport.com, Maini explained the rant:

“All weekend we lost almost 7km/h down the straight, and we had a problem in free practice…They said there was a pipe that was melting, we replaced it for qualifying and it melted again. I had no straight-line speed again compared to my team-mate or anybody else.”

Problems persisted through the feature and sprint races, and Maini claimed that “a few others had the same issue as me, and some of the engines are pulling like crazy.” He concluded: “They say it’s a one-make championship but it’s not a one-make championship. It’s a joke, what’s going on in this championship right now.”