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Bottas at odds with FIA ban on drivers' political statements
Valtteri Bottas has expressed his concerns with the FIA's crackdown on drivers using F1 as a platform for making political statements. At the end of last year, motorsport's governing body amended its International Sporting Code which now includes a provision that bans drivers from expressing or displaying "political, religious and personal statements", unless they have been previously approved by the FIA. The FIA's decision followed several years during which political and environmental activism was exhibited in F1, with the likes of Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel often using their notoriety on race day to denounce social injustice, inequalities, or climate change issues....
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