Are There Any Gay F1 Drivers? - One Stop Racg

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BBC Sport looks at the reer of Mike Bttler, Formula 1's only known gay male driver, and his impact on today's LGBT+ motorsport muny.

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THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER IS OUT AND PROUD, AND CHASG HIS MOTORSPORTS DREAM

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Are there gay F1 drivers?

LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH: MIKE BTTLER - FORMULA 1'S ONLY KNOWN GAY MALE DRIVER

SportsPro Magaze's current issue, an article speculatg that Casey Kahne may be the first gay driver NASCAR, stat that F1 currently has two... * gay driver formula *

I've been thkg about this topic for que some time but I realised that gay f1 drivers seem to e few and far between. 1950s: 0 gay drivers 1960s: 0 gay drivers 1970s: 0 gay drivers 1980s: 0 gay drivers 1990s: 0 gay drivers 2000s: 1 gay driver (Jaime Alguersuari) Proof 2010s: 1 gay driver (Jaime Alguersuari) 2020s: 1 gay driver (Alex Albon). If we take to nsiratn the 2 gay drivers, Jaime Alguuari and Alex Albon.

003% chance of a Formula 1 driver beg gay. 003% of gay Formula 1 drivers (4x0.

93 people Formula 1 are gay which nfirms the sexualy of Alex Albon and Jaime Alguersuari.

GAY DRIVERS F1?

Formula One would now wele s first openly gay driver, acrdg to Germany's four tim world champn Sebastian Vettel. * gay driver formula *

He took to Instagram and me out as gay last June. If he tak the green flag there, he will jo Stephen Rhos on the list of openly gay drivers a NASCAR natnal seri. Are there or has been any gay drivers formula 1?

I wonr if there are drivers wh a homosexual orientatn. Bttler remas the only known gay male driver to have peted at the hight level of did so at a time when F1 was an pecially macho environment. "I knew he was gay, but didn't matter my world.

F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER, SAYS VETTEL

Sebastian Vettel believ that F1 is now ready to wele an openly gay driver. * gay driver formula *

"The racg world of the 2020s is a very different place to that of the Bishop, a Racg Pri ambassador and Aston Mart F1 chief munitns officer, said: "In the early 1970s, people didn't talk about beg gay.

"In the Uned Kgdom, was only 1967 that homosexualy was legalised between two nsentg adults private.

Overall, he sred five top-10 fish his then the UK was plunged to fancial turmoil by the 1973 oil crisis, and his team did not have the money to stay the 34, Bttler retired om Bradshaw, a motorsport PR nsultant who first met Bttler the early 1970s, said: "There was no stigma wh Mike, he was a nice gentle person - everyone knew he was gay, wasn't a secret and was accepted.

SEBASTIAN VETTEL - F1 READY FOR AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER

On Tuday, Raphael Orlove and Bill Caswell posed the qutn on Jalopnik, “Why Aren’t There More ‘Out’ Gay Race Car Drivers?” Actually, there are more than you thk. * gay driver formula *

"I spect would have been easier for him to live the liftyle he wanted LA and San Francis, whereas beg gay London was a more secretive thg, " said Phillips. "'LGBT+ people have always been part of motorsport'Brr Endurance Champnship driver and Racg Pri -founr Richard Morris has had lots of support wh motorsport after g out as gay 2018Sce Bttler's ath, several motorsport drivers have e out as Mans class wner Danny Watts me out 2017, a year after retirg, while the W Seri there is LGBT+ reprentatn on track fellow Brish drivers Abbie Eaton and Sarah Moore.

FORMULA 1 READY TO WELE A GAY DRIVER – VETTEL

Richard Morris, -founr of Racg Pri and a driver for the Praga team the Brr Endurance Champnship, me out as gay 2018, when already tablished motorsport.

Some people knew I was gay but I wasn't out - I thk that is very siar to Bttler's experience. "If he was alive, he would have been terviewed about Sectn 28 and gay marriage. "Sectn 28 was a law that affected England, Wal and Stland, passed 1988 by a Conservative ernment that stopped uncils and schools "promotg the teachg of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship" were mass protts by LGBT+ mpaigners and the law was repealed Stland 2000, before England and Wal did the same 2003.

Would be possible for an F1 driver to e out as gay or bi? Sce 's pri month and wh the FIA announcg the "We Race As One" operatn featurg on the r and the sport's munitn aimg to fight all typ of discrimatn i'm wonrg if would be possible for a F1 driver to e out as gay or bisexual morn ntext of the sport?

ARE THERE ANY GAY F1 DRIVERS?

F1 history only saw one openly gay driver the past: Mike Bttler the 70s.

THERE ARE MORE 'OUT' GAY RACG DRIVERS THAN YOU THK

In the ial 2020 lendar UAE penaliz homosexualy wh imprisonment, three other untri forbid to some extent the mediatizatn of homosexual relatnships a posive way sayg 's "LGBT propaganda" (Rsia, Cha and Japan), and if Wikipedia stat Azerbaijan and Bahra don't have legislatn on that topic, i bet the untri are not particularly iendly wh homosexual relatns. Wh the rmatns would be possible for an F1 driver to e out as openly gay and potentially appear wh his boyiend?

Gay Drivers F1? SportsPro Magaze's current issue, an article speculatg that Casey Kahne may be the first gay driver NASCAR, stat that F1 currently has two homosexuals on the grid.

if you figure statistics say 1/10 is gay, so that would make for 2 out of the 20 out on the grid.

SEBASTIAN VETTEL - F1 READY FOR AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER

How would they know who is gay anyway? Formula One F1 - Hungarian Grand Prix - Hungarorg, Budapt, Hungary - Augt 1, 2021 Aston Mart's Sebastian Vettel wearg a rabow shirt before the race Pool via REUTERS/Florn Goga Acquire Licensg RightsLONDON, June 8 (Rters) - Formula One would now wele s first openly gay driver, acrdg to Germany's four tim world champn Sebastian champnship, which started 1950, has had only male drivers on the startg grid sce 1976 but has ma a ph for diversy and cln wh teams showg support for the LGBTQ Mart driver Vettel last year wore a rabow-loured T shirt Hungary wh the msage 'same love' to prott anti-LGBTQ+ legislatn. "Perhaps wouldn’t have been the se the past, but now I thk a gay Formula One driver would be weled, and rightly so, " Vettel said an terview wh LGBTQ magaze Attu that featured him on s ver.

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Sebastian Vettel - F1 ready for an openly gay driver.

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