FIA bans journalist for criticizing Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc

The Daily Mail will boycott the final three races of the Formula One season after the FIA revoked veteran journalist Jonathan McEvoy’s media credentials over an opinion column criticizing Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc. The British newspaper announced Friday that it would not report on races or news conferences for the remainder of 2026 in protest of the FIA’s decision to bar McEvoy from covering the Las Vegas, Qatar and Abu Dhabi grands prix. McEvoy, who has covered F1 for more than two decades, learned Thursday that his accreditation had been withdrawn after a Nov. 4 opinion column in which he called Leclerc a “sneaky little bastard.”