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No anti-racist gesture ‘requirement' in F1 – spokesman

Mar.24 Formula 1 drivers will be 'free' to kneel on the grid before grands prix in 2021, a spokesman for the sport says. However, it is believed the ‘End Racism' t-shirts will no longer appear – a move that has the full backing of former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone. 'If I'd have still been around there wouldn't have been anyone wearing t-shirts on the podium, that's for sure,' the 90-year-old told the Telegraph newspaper. Ecclestone said he would also have disallowed the kneeling, which was an initiative started in Formula 1 by seven time world champion Lewis Hamilton. Ecclestone said Hamilton and F1 need to be careful to not become a political 'tool'. 'I've said to his...
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