Formula 2 Driver Blasts Race Organisers In Sweary Radio Outburst

Arjun Maini had an angry rant about Formula 2's organisers after the sprint race last weekend

25 Jun 2018

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.”

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

When people are allowed to swear at F2 but not in CT

I got the same problem when karting!
Luckily karts do get changed between sessions

ikr, just ask Vinmaster (Car Squad) (Rotary Squad) (Porsche Squad)

weird

i thought indian insults were just “show bobs and vagene you bloody bich”

this is new to me

You stayoopid 🅱️astard m🅰️achot 🅱️aachot idiot bic bobs and vagene 😂

That’s really funny

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well guess whos not getting signed up for next season?

That’s racing for ya

but its SPEC racing

Sounds like he’s being a whiney little over privileged rich kid who thinks that the world revolves around him. All he does is drive the car, the team (mechanics, spotters etc.) are way more important in the big picture. Yea it may be upsetting that the car wasnt running right but thats racing and if he cant deal with that then he shouldnt be racing in the first place.

Please read the article attentively.

That’s how spec racing is. People cheat. When my dad raced skip barber, you tip the mechanics to get better formula cars, drivers “in the know” are favored. In karting, it’s the same, people running larger airboxes, etc. I spoke to people in Spec Miata, people modify the cars to produce more power, etc.

First of all you didn’t even read the article and it’s a one make championship where everybody is suppose to have a similar car yet his car is loosing power, what can you even do in that position? When you give your all to something you love and you are being mistreated, it can get frustrating. It’s an emotional outburst, not privilege.

Just one problem , the 2018 f2 car is an unreliable pig that’s not ready to race right now . Drivers stalling , loosing power, blowing up all due to the the disastrous new car, it’s costing drivers valuable pointsand perhaps even their careers … as many have already said the person who ends up having the least reliability problems will win the championship ans that’s simply not acceptable for f2 the leading f1 feeder series . It’s simply not up to the standard , the teams and drivers are promised a reliable race ready car right now the 2018 f2 car is neither . That car is NOT race ready . No other f2 season has even been close to as disastrous as 2018 .