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F1: Alpine hits out at (un)social media

Alpine has issued a statement following online abuse of Yuki Tsunoda by 'fans' of Franco Colapinto over the Imola weekend. During FP3 the Japanese driver gesticulated at the Argentine after being impeded, causing the Alpine driver's countrymen to take to social media. 'It's normal that if you have traffic, and I caught it multiple times, you get frustrated,' said Tsunoda. 'I think I have the right to say something. I didn't say the wrong thing, or a very bad thing. I just expressed my frustration, and that's it. 'I know they are supporting their own country's driver,' he said of the online abuse he subsequently received, some of it racist, 'but there's always a line crossed, that they say...
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