A large number of fans reported racist, homophobic and sexi✃st abuse they had been subjected to over the course of the Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring. 

Senior figures in the sport have condemned the abuse, while F1 said they had raised the matter with the grand prix promoter and security at the eve🍨nt. 

Mercedes invited a victim o𝓰f sexual harassment into the team’s garage for the final 20 laps of the race after locating her.  

“If you are a real F1 fan, whatever team, whatever driver, you can’t be a racis🐎t, you can’t be h💜omophobic and you can’t be sexist because then you don’t fit to F1 and we don’t want you,” said Wolff. 

“On the other side, we need to be careful just because there ar🧔e a few drunk dumbarses out there that haven’t compreh⭕ended how the world goes today, we shouldn’t condemn the 99.9 percent of fans who come here. 

"There is always going to be these idiots around, I hope w🍷e provided a good show for the rest and these ones can stay at home.

“You need to reportꦉ to the security if you can and whoever [should] read my sentence: Stay away we൩ don’t want you, f*** off.” 

The fan who Mercedes welcomed into their garage had her dress lifted up by a group of drunk spectators who told her she didn’t deserve respect because she supports Lewis Hamilton. 🅰;

“We found out that this had happened a💃nd that is just not on,” said Wolff. 

The behaviour of the fans at the Spielberg race had already been under the spotlight after&n♈bsp;legions of Max Verstappen’s ‘Orange Army๊’ cheered when Lewis Hamilton crashed out of qualifying on Friday. 

Hamilton criticised their actions and the seven-time world champion urged F1 to do more to stamp out abu🥂se after finishing third on Sunday. 

“Just to know that someone sitting in a crowd supporting someone else is receiving abuse… It’s crazy to think we are still experiencing th꧙ese things 🎶in 2022,” he said. 

“We have to continue to do more❀. It just highlights that it’s an issue all over and it comesꦑ down to education. 

“So we will have to work together with all of our platforms to spread that positive wo🔯rd to all of those people that are watching, because people should come here, should feels safe and included, and should be able to follow whoever it is you want to follow. 

“It shouldn’t matter your gender, your sexuality, the colour of your s༒kin. It should just be everyone here to have a great ♈time.” 

‘Alcohol at F1 races should be regulated’

Verstappen, who finishe𝔍d second, also condemned the 🍎behaviour of the fans, saying: “I read a few things, a few shocking things. 

“And that’s clearly not OK and I shouldn’t even need to say this, I think this should be a general understanding, that these things sh🧜ouldn’t happen, a normal human being I think should think like that and should behave🌳 like that.”

The reigning world champion also suggeꦕsted that reဣstrictions should be put in place on how much fans can drink while in attendance at races. 

"One thing can be i♈mproved with security to keep people in check,” he added. “Also, don’t fo🐬rget, it’s not an excuse but they watch the races and then they go back and party and have fun and drink alcohol. 

“Sometimes when you drink alcohol you can do stupid things - I don’t say thi🍨ꦫs as an excuse. Also these things can be regulated. 

“A certain amount of alcohol maybe until it’s time to maybe go to bed and wake up again the next morning and be sober. Because if you start to go really crazy you can do stupid things.”&nb🃏sp;

Meanwhile, race-winner Charles Leclerc called on fans who have been found guilty of abusing others to be banned from F1 ev🐟ents🅷 altogether.

“If we manage to find these people we need to take hard actions,” said the Ferrari driver. “They shouldn’t be allowed anywhere close t🎶o our sport, I believe. 

“𓄧As drivers, we should speak about it so people listen to us a b𒁃it more and don’t do these types of things.”