Daily Mail reporter barred from final three F1 races

Daily Mail correspondent Jonathan McEvoy has had his media accreditation revoked by the FIA for the final three races of the 2026 season. The FIA said his article on Charles Leclerc, following the Mexico City Grand Prix, did not meet the professional standards expected of accredited media. McEvoy had described Leclerc in offensive terms in the piece, which discussed a clash with teammate Lewis Hamilton and a tense post-race debrief.

The Daily Mail's head of sport, Chris Dean, criticised the decision as an attack on press freedom. McEvoy later defended his comments as light-hearted, then criticised Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur, whom he suspects of alerting the FIA to his reporting, describing him in insulting terms.

The suspension follows an earlier dispute in which Max Verstappen removed The Guardian's Giles Richards from a press conference at the Japanese Grand Prix earlier this year.