🗣️ 'Nothing changes for me' Lewis Hamilton says nothing will stop him speaking up about important issues in F1, despite the FIA's clampdown on political statements ⬇️
prohibit drivers from making personal, political or religious statementsAlthough the FIA said the move was merely formalising a process that is already in place, a number ofHamilton has been one of F1’s most vocal figures about social issues, such as the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 amid activism around the world, improving diversity within motorsport and LGBTQ+ rights., Hamilton said he would still speak up on important issues despite the FIA’s update to the regulations.
“It doesn’t surprise me, but nothing will stop me in speaking on the things that I feel that I’m passionate about and issues that there are,” said Hamilton. “I feel the sport does have a responsibility still, always, to speak out on things and create awareness on important topics, particularly as we’re travelling to all these different places.On the podium of the 2020 Tuscan Grand Prix, Hamilton wore a t-shirt with the message ‘Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor’ on the front in the wake of the killing of Taylor, a black medical technician, by police.
Following the winter update to the ISC, FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem said he did not want drivers to use F1 as a “platform for private personal agenda”, but denied the governing body was “shutting any drivers” down.Read Also:
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