Ferrari was the center of controversy for their crash at the Singapore, but also for their Tweet following that accident. The Tweet laid the blame on Max Verstappen, but it has been reported that the Tweet was not actually published by the team’s head of press communications.
The Tweet read:
VER took #Kimi7 out and then he went to #Seb5 #SingaporeGP
— Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari) September 17, 2017
Twitter erupted with fans and experts disputing Ferrari’s statement. All official Ferrari statements to the press after the incident were very generic and didn’t describe their opinion on the incident in any detail. The Tweet posted to the team’s official Twitter account was reported posted by someone else on the team, not the head of press communications.
Nevertheless, the team kept the Tweet on their feed and followed up with the following Tweet supporting the previous Tweet after the post-race discussions with the stewards, presumably posted by the head of press communications:
What we tweeted was a factual description of events. No need to speculate on this
— Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari) September 17, 2017
The stewards ruled that they could not lay blame on any single driver and opted to take no further action against the drivers involved.
