When fans of Speed discovered that Singaporean content creator Jianhao Tan had assisted Speed with the livestream, they began to send hate messages to the 31-year-old for what they assumed to be a lack of proper planning.
Tan later clarified that he was only given the confirmation that Speed was arriving in Singapore one night before.
“I had only a few hours to scramble three executive cars, five bikes, six security [personnel], airport fast track as requested last minute,” he wrote on Instagram.
“That’s already hard on a normal day but imagine F1 weekend…I genuinely just wanted to help with whatever he needed which is what I do for any creator that messages me when they come to Singapore.”
He added that “Speed and his team tried their best to make things work”.
“[Speed] didn’t give up and never stopped trying to do a stream for you guys. Everyone tried,” wrote Tan.
Addressing the vitriol directed towards Jianhao Tan, Speed’s manager Slipz took to social media platform X to defend him, saying: “Please stop hating on Jianhao, he can’t control USS bro…He doesn’t deserve an ounce of hate for s**t he can’t control.”
Slipz also added that his team was not allowed to stream at the F1 race.
