Perhaps in one way the punishment serves the ridiculous nature of the crime. The inconvenience of an eight-and-a-half-hour flight each way to Rwanda to “undertake some work” with the Rwanda Automobile Club as retribution for swearing during a press conference.
Coming at the end of the longest-ever season in Formula 1’s history, not to mention the environmental impact of Verstappen’s private jet making the journey to the country in the middle of Africa, one questions the logic for such a punishment. And what ‘work’ will Verstappen be taking? And why in Rwanda?
