• All 20 drivers hit out after recent swearing punishments
• Verstappen and Leclerc were both sanctioned by FIA

Formula One drivers have demanded the FIA stops treating them like children in a damning indictment of the governing body’s recent policies and its president, Mohammed Ben Sulayem.

The Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (GPDA), which represents F1 drivers, issued a strongly worded and highly critical statement on Thursday, addressing the recent controversy over swearing. It took issue with the “tone and language” used by Ben Sulayem and questioned the financial transparency of the FIA, in a highly unusual and very public critique which puts the FIA in a difficult position.