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Wolff: FIA political ban on drivers won't be 'harsh'
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff believes the FIA's crackdown on drivers using F1 as a platform for making political statements won't be as "harsh" as anticipated. The FIA has amended its International Sporting Code which now includes a provision that bans drivers from expressing or displaying "political, religious and personal statements", unless previously approved by the governing body. In the past few seasons, political and environmental activism came to the fore in F1, with the likes of Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel using their platform as Grand Prix drivers to regularly denounce on race weekends injustice, inequalities or climate change issues. FIA president...
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