Todt told to "think before you speak"

FIA president Jean Todt, the French chief of Formula 1's Paris-based governing body, was intensely criticised for insisting the minute of silence before the Brazilian Grand Prix was officially for road crash victims and not victims of Friday's Paris massacre, arguing that more die on the roads every day than at the hands of terrorists.

Undoubtedly referring to the FIA's global road safety campaign 'Think before you drive', the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag advised Todt to "Think before you speak".

Romain Grosjean and Niki Lauda made it quite clear that the minute of silence on Sunday's Interlagos grid was for the victims of the Paris terrorist attack.

French driver Grosjean held up a French flag during the silence and F1 legend and Mercedes team chairman Niki Lauda insisted: "If there was a minute of silence, it was for the French."