Haas driver Romain Grosjean has hit out at Formula One Management and its approach to social media, after they told him to remove videos he had posted of Formula 1 testing on his social media accounts last week.
The Frenchman uploaded several videos of his Haas car lapping the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya with team-mate Esteban Gutierrez at the wheel, but they were later deleted.
Grosjean revealed that FOM, which often removes unauthorised footage filmed by fans and posted on the internet, took the same approach with him, despite the videos racking up millions of views which most would assume is great marketing for a product.
"I ran a live video on my Facebook page during our filming day, as well as from my room yesterday," he told Motorsport.com "And the FOM asked me to remove all the videos. We had more than a million views on all the videos.
"I think it's great, it allows people to see F1, what it's like inside, behind the scenes, but we're not allowed.
"F1 is too narrow-minded – we say that we lose fans, but nowadays, social networks have so many billion people in the world – and we're not allowed to make the most of them."
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