The International Automobile Federation (FIA) has checked the International Sporting Code (CDI) which prohibits drivers, including Formula 1 drivers, from making political or religious statements without their prior consent, in order to maintain their neutrality.
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To this end, the FIA has amended an article (12.2.1) which now states that it is considered a criminal offense to “formulate and present political, religious and personal statements or comments contrary to the general principle of neutrality “. articles of association. , except with the prior written approval of the FIA for international competitions or the relevant national sporting authority under whose jurisdiction they fall.
With this regulatory innovation, the FIA wants to avoid actions like that of Briton Lewis Hamilton, who wore a T-shirt on the podium at the 2020 Tuscany GP to protest police brutality in the United States (“Arrest the police officers die Breonna Taylor has killed”, it said) or the German Sebastian Vettelthat he wore on his helmet GP de Montreal 2022 an inscription claiming the end of oil sands development in Canada.
Meanwhile, the Spanish sherry circuit was dropped from the F1 calendar after the city’s mayor made an unscheduled appearance on stage in 1997.
(With information from EFE)
Source: La Neta Neta
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