#PeopleSo ¬ “Pobres” and Clara Brugada are blamed for the fights in Formula 1

The poor, invited by Clara Brugada, caused the fights in Formula 1, they said in the media and social networks.

Mexico City, October 29 (However).- The fights that occurred in Formula 1 they starred poor people invited by Clara Brugada, Head of Government of Mexico City. That was what was stated in the media and on social networks from accounts linked to the PAN.

On Saturday, October 25, it took place the Grand Prix (GP) qualifying race of Formula 1 in Mexico City, an event that celebrated its 10th anniversary in this capital. and that day There were two fights, with several people injured.

In this regard, the local Secretariat of Citizen Security issued a statement in which it reported that personnel from the Banking and Industrial Police, at the Hermanos Rodríguez Autodrome, “were alerted to a fight between two attendees” in the stands area. And he assured that the officers intervened immediately “to contain the situation,” and that, together with the event’s private security personnel, it was decided to expel the people involved.

Nothing was reported about what happened in this other fight. Maybe he thought they were having a good time. On social networks, several users directly found the generators of violence, as Omar García Harfuch would say, and these are: the poor.

For example, one tweet reads – with a lot of work, by the way –: “well, what did they expect, given that the populace obviously doesn’t know how to behave, they would have given them tickets to a soccer game or taken them to any small town horse race and I’m not saying it, their zip code is shouting it” (sic).

That tweet refers to the fact that the Government of Mexico City gave away several double passes for citizens. And from there the problem began for some people, who reproached things like: “no, this event is for fifis.”

Tickets for the 2025 Mexico City GP cost between 4,000 and 46,000 pesos, depending on the area of ​​the racetrack. Those who paid for packages with food, drinks and official merchandise and also traveled from another city or outside the country, had to pay for transportation and lodging, so they shelled out around 100 thousand pesos to see some cars pass by several times. Many. Maybe they charge them per return.

Due to how much it costs to enter that event, figures such as Juan Carlos, the abdicated king of Spain, who left the throne after so many corruption scandals, have attended the Mexico City Grand Prix.

Or Serena Williams, one of the best tennis players of all time, who recently in an interview, when asked if she feels comfortable in Donald Trump’s EU, responded that she doesn’t get involved in that kind of thing. Or Felipe Calderón and Margarita Zavala. Wordless.

Let’s see, yes, some people on the left have criticized the elitism of the Mexican Grand Prix and now the right uses that analysis to try to exclude impoverished people or people with fewer economic resources. And with this it only proves what the critics pointed out: that in addition to the economic exclusion – which could even be traced back – there is social or class exclusion, racism and that those who do not belong “to their class” are intruders and will never be welcome.

Yes, it is an event for a social group that can pay so much money for a ticket. So, couldn’t it be that what is really annoying is the presence of impoverished people in a space that they believed was reserved for the elites?

What angers them is seeing the people attending those big events, taking photos, enjoying what they were always told was only for a privileged class.

But many Twitter accounts went further. For example, in the account of user Emilio Vallejo, linked to the PAN, it was stated, without providing evidence, that the fights were “between attendees of the event with tickets given away” by the Head of Government of Mexico City, Clara Brugada.

And in the same tweet he questioned: “Isolated incidents or deliberate acts by MORENA so that the (Federation Internationale de l’Automobile) FIA removes the Mexican Grand Prix from the Formula 1 calendar? We know that the Obreros are repudiated by Mexico hosting a first-class international event.”

But it was not the only account. There are these other comments: “mmm, the fight is right, over Clara’s gifts.” “Since they are chairos, the event has been ruined.” “Those from the first event are precisely from the stands that were giving away tickets.”

And you will say, well, they are bots, but the classist narrative expands – or is it born? – in the media. Some described the fights as something “that contrasted with the glamor and expectation that usually surrounds this international event.” Several people there have to review their classism.

They all see a very clear link between poor people, who are given a ticket, and violent behavior. This is called “criminalization of poverty”, that is, automatically relating “poverty” as the main reason for committing crimes.

As if we linked the right with being anti-right. No, wait, that duo does exist. In fact, the violence is rather linked to the right, as Donald Trump, Nayib Bukele, Ricardo Salinas Pliego and, well, Felipe Calderón himself show us with words and actions.

Because none of those “poor people” who went to Formula 1 have bombed small boats in international waters, no one has created a maximum security prison to detain people without evidence or migrants. Or they have not exploited their workers to become millionaires in addition to not paying their taxes, nor have they caused the greatest period of violence in Mexico and declaring a false war against drug trafficking.

But in addition to this, with lies, with unsubstantiated statements, they also try to point out that since a Morena government gave away the tickets, the result is an act of violence.

But there are always people like that who need to invent culprits to justify their classism and protect privileges.