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When I read last week's statement from McLaren, wishing to stress that at no stage, in the course of their heated radio debate during qualifying in Hungary, did Lewis Hamilton use the F-word in his remarks to Ron Dennis, I wondered facetiously if the word in question was 'Ferrari'. At the moment, after all, relations between Woking and Maranello are about as warm as Gordon Brown's smile. Then I thought again, about what the coy F-word used to stand for in the days before you heard it on TV 10 times a night. Today, after all, it is words like 'difficult' and 'problem' which must on no account be uttered - instead we are subjected to 'challenging' and 'issue', and, as with so much else, we have our politicians to thank for that. What struck me last week was the extent to which 'image' has become all-consuming in the 21st century. The 'I' word, one might say. At one point the McLaren statement said that 'Lewis has asked us to correct one important matter of untrue critical commentary. The team has reviewed the radio transmission, and can categorically confirm that Lewis did not use the F-word at any time during conversation with the team.' © 2021 Autosport
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