{"id":2422,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/2422","headline":"FIA bans Daily Mail reporter for rest of 2026 season over Leclerc column","dek":"Jonathan McEvoy lost his credential after calling Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc a sneaky little bastard in a headline.","body":"The FIA has pulled Jonathan McEvoy's media accreditation for the remainder of the 2026 Formula 1 season. The Daily Mail motor racing writer drew the governing body's ire after an opinion piece published on Nov. 4, which called Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc a \"sneaky little b*****d\" in the headline.\n\nThe ban means McEvoy will not be covering the three remaining races of the season in person. The FIA confirmed the decision on Thursday.\n\nIn a statement issued to Front Office Sports, the FIA pointed to its own guidelines as justification. The statement noted that media accreditation under the 2026 FIA Formula One World Championship Guidelines is granted at the FIA's sole discretion and can be revoked at any time without notice, with the highest standards expected of accredited media.\n\nThe move is a rare example of the FIA directly pulling credentials over commentary about a driver, rather than over conduct at the track itself. Leclerc has not publicly commented on the ban.","published_at":"2026-11-15T00:50:21.748514+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"Journalist banned from Formula 1 after calling driver ‘sneaky little bastard’","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/11/13/sports/f1-writer-jonathan-mcevoy-is-banned-over-charles-leclerc-headline/"},{"outlet":"Front Office Sports","publisher":"Front Office Sports","title":"FIA Bans F1 Journalist for Calling Driver ‘A Sneaky Little B*****d’","url":"https://frontofficesports.com/article/fia-bans-f1-journalist-for-calling-driver-a-sneaky-little-bd/"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"F1 reporter banned from remaining 2026 races after criticizing Charles Leclerc","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7778735/2026/11/13/f1-reporter-banned-daily-mail-charles-leclerc/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"British newspaper boycotts F1 as FIA bans journalist after Leclerc column","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/british-newspaper-boycotts-f1-fia-090000914.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://frontofficesports.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/2026-10-25T222857Z_149132004_UP1EMAP1QG6GO_RTRMADP_3_MOTOR-F1-UNITED-STATES-scaled.jpg?quality=80&w=1024","credit":"Front Office Sports","width":1024},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}