What happened the last time Verstappen did community service
OPINION: Max Verstappen’s punishment for swearing during the pre-event Formula 1 press conference in Singapore isn’t the first time the Dutchman has been given a community service penalty. Here’s what happened when he served his last at the Marrakech Formula E round in early 2019…
"You won't believe who's coming."
It's the petrol-fume-stinking pitlane of the Moulay El Hassan circuit ahead of the 2019 Marrakech E-Prix. The Atlas Mountains are twinkling to my right. These are the early days of Formula E's Gen-2 era.
Amid the manufacturer influx party the electric championship was guzzling upon, that meant pretty much anyone could be coming. Wayne Rooney? Boris Johnson? Liz Hurley? Idris Elba had driven the Gen1 car at the previous Paris E-Prix, something Johnson had also done during a flying visit to the controversial Battersea round in 2015. Heady days.
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Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.
A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.
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