Fans went too far? Teammate Gasly reacts to online abuse after Colapinto's crash

Ahead of Monaco GP, both Charles Leclerc and Pierre Gasly talked about how F1 always had a different community to other sports, and online abuse should not make its way into it.

A fake photo of an Instagram story made it seem like motorcycling world champion Mick Doohan was making fun of Colapinto, who replaced his son, Jack Doohan, entering the weekend in Imola.

The Ferrari driver said that for him, the lack of the aforementioned thing happening made F1 stand out in the past. "I wasn't aware of all the details of the situation, but I think as a global picture, that's never something you want to see. I think there's a lot of respect and I've grown up with F1 as a target and looking at it, thinking that it was incredible to see so many different fans from different teams, but having a lot of respect and I think that's what I want to see going forward all the time no matter what the situation is."

He continued: "Especially now with social media it's more and more toxic I think, and there are more and more false information spread out. I think what should be the most important thing to do in any kind of time is just respect first and it's a shame to see these kind of things in a sport like ours."

Gasly, who was Doohan's teammate at Alpine, could only agree with Leclerc.

The Frenchman continued: "The community we've had over the years really supporting but never really spreading hate on any other. You can support any team, any drivers, many teams, many different drivers, but at the end of the day, we've never really seen that sort of hate happening. I hope people can understand there are human beings behind anyone, families, drivers, team, mechanics, engineers. Respect is key. Respect should come first as a priority. Definitely we don't want to see any of that."