Ewis Hamilton has warned Formula 1 it needs to do more to raise the issues in the countries where it is racing this season.
F1’s 2023 season kicks off at the Bahrain Grand Prix this weekend the same week, where a group of 20 all-party MPs called on F1 to launch an independent investigation into its association with countries with poor track records. of human rights.
In response, F1 said it had “worked hard to be a positive force wherever it races”.
But Hamilton said: “I can’t say whether or not I know if it got worse, but I’m not sure it got better over all these years.
Call to action: Lewis Hamilton wants F1 to do more on human rights issues
/ Getty Images“For me, it was only in the last few years that I started to understand more and more the challenges for people here in Bahrain and also in Saudi Arabia because it was my first time going there. last year and read about some of the issues.”
Hamilton’s comments follow the position of MPs in Parliament as well as a damning assessment of F1 by the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy.
Its head of advocacy, Sayed Alwadaei, said: “It is high time that F1 and the FIA stop allowing their presence in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to be used to wash away the bloody images of these autocracies.”
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