F1 would wele an openly gay driver - Sebastian Vettel - ESPN

Contents:

• LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH: MIKE BTTLER - FORMULA 1'S ONLY KNOWN GAY MALE DRIVER
• ARE THERE ANY GAY F1 DRIVERS?
• THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER IS OUT AND PROUD, AND CHASG HIS MOTORSPORTS DREAM
• F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER - SEBASTIAN VETTEL
• F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER, SAYS VETTEL
• GAY DRIVERS F1?
• GAY NATN’S TOP FORMULA ONE DRIVERS IN 2022
• PETROV: IF AN F1 DRIVER OUT AS GAY, WILL THEY URGE EVERYONE ELSE TO BEE GAY?
• VETTEL: A GAY FORMULA 1 DRIVER WOULD BE WELED, AND RIGHTLY SO
• VETTEL: F1 IS READY FOR AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER
• SEBASTIAN VETTEL - F1 READY FOR AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER
• ARE THERE ANY DRIVERS OM THE LGBTQ MUNY F1?JUNE 23, 2022SARBIK DUTTAFORMULA 1, SPORTS NEWSTABLE OF CONTENTSTHE LGBTQ MUNY CELEBRAT THE ‘PRI MONTH’ JUNE TO MEMORATE YEARS OF STGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND EQUALYF1 AS A SPORT, HISTORILLY DON’T HAVE A HUGE REPRENTATN OM THE LGBTQ MUNY. AT PRENT, THE ONLY KNOWN GAY FORMULA ONE DRIVER IS MIKE BTTLER. BTTLER RACED UNR MARCH FORMULA ONE BETWEEN 1971 AND 1973. DPE LIMED LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN ON THE CURRENT GRID, MANY DRIVERS, ANIZATNS, AND THE FIA HAVE SHOWN SUPPORT TO THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.CREDS: GOOGLE IMAGMARKETA VONDROOVA MARRI LONG-TI...PLEASE ENABLE JAVASCRIPTMARKETA VONDROOVA MARRI LONG-TIME PARTNER STEPAN SIMEKMIKE BTTLER PETED 29 RAC, WH A TOP FISHG OF SEVENTH PLACE AT THE 1973 SPANISH GRAND PRIX. WHEREAFTER THE 1973 OIL CRISIS BRA FORCED HIS RETIREMENT AT THE AGE OF TO THE STIGMA ASSOCIATED WH HOMOSEXUALY, MIKE BTTLER WAS NOT OPENLY GAY, ALTHOUGH CLOSE IENDS, FELLOW RACERS, AND FAY WERE SAID TO HAVE BEEN AWARE OF HIS SEXUALY.IN FORMULA W, THERE HAVE BEEN TWO DRIVERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS OPENLY GAY/ EATON IS A BRISH RACG DRIVER WHO RACED UNR ÉCURIE W THE 2021 W SERI AND UNR SCURIA W THE 2022 W SERI. SHE IS ALSO KNOWN FOR HER ROLE AS A DRIVG AMBASSADOR FOR RACG PRI, AN LGBT RIGHTS CHARY WORKER FOR VAR ANIZATNS.CREDS: SIAR TO ABBIE EATON, SARAH MOORE IS A BRISH RACG DRIVER WHO RACED UNR HECH GP THE 2019 W SERI AND SCURIA W THE 2021 AND 2022 W SERI. ALONG WH HER RACG ACHIEVEMENTS, SARAH MOORE IS A DRIVG AMBASSADOR FOR RACG PRI AND AN LGBT RIGHTS CHARY WORKER FOR VAR ANIZATNS.WHICH F1 DRIVERS HAVE EXPRSED THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY?DPE THE LACK OF LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN ON THE CURRENT FORMULA ONE GRID, MANY OF THE CURRENT FORMULA DRIVERS HAVE SHOWN OPEN SUPPORT FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. TWO NOTABLE LGBTQ+ SUPPORTS/ALLI REGNIZED BY RACG PRI ARE LEWIS HATON AND SEBASTIAN VETTEL.IN 2020 AND 2021, LEWIS HATON WORE A HELMET ADORNED WH THE RABOW LORS OF THE GAY PRI FLAG AND THE WORDG “WE STAND TOGETHER” AT THE QATAR GP. THE REASON WAS TO TAKE A STANCE AGAST THE KGDOM OF QATAR’S OPENLY HOMOPHOBIC LAW, WHICH LEWIS HATON SCRIBED AS “TERRIFYG.”CREDS: MERCESSIAR TO LEWIS HATON’S CRICISM OF HUNGARY’S REFERENDUM 2021, SEBASTIAN VETTEL WORE A GAY PRI-THEMED FACE MASK AND T-SHIRT AT THE 2021 HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX, ALONG WH THE FOLLOWG STATEMENT: “EVERYONE HAS THE SAME RIGHT TO LOVE.”MORE F1 NEWSLEWIS HATON DON’T SUPPORT IOC’S CISN ON BLACK LIV MATTER GEAR DURG OLYMPICSMAX VERSTAPPEN LEFT SURPRISED AS HE REACH 100 RACE TONE WH RED BULLDAMON HILL LEFT AWE AFTER LEWIS HATON RACKS UP 100 POL F1 AHEAD OF 2021 SPANISH GPFOLLOW OUR DITED FORMULA ONE PAGE FOR STANT FORMULA ONE NEWS AND UPDATUFC 292: STERLING VS. O’MALLEY LIVE STREAM WITHOUT REDDIT STREAMS, BUFFSTREAMS OR CRACKSTREAMUFC 292: STERLING VS O’MALLEY ODDS, PREDICTION AND FIGHT PREVIEWNBA IN-SEASON TOURNAMENT 2023/24: SCHLE, GROUPS, FORMAT & PRIZE MONEY
• "A GAY FORMULA ONE DRIVER WOULD BE WELED", FEELS SEBASTIAN VETTEL
• GAY NATN’S TOP FORMULA ONE DRIVERS 2021

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

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. "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.

ARE THERE ANY GAY F1 DRIVERS?

"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.

"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.

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

"'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. 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.

F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER - SEBASTIAN VETTEL

"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. But have there been any openly gay Formula One drivers?

At prent, the only known gay Formula One driver is Mike Bttler.

F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER, SAYS VETTEL

Let’s explore the greater tail below:If you’re lookg for some F1 merchandise, check out the awome stuff at the official F1 store Formula One Drivers In History Were Gay? At prent, the only Formula One driver who is known to be gay is Mike Bttler. Whereafter the 1973 oil crisis Bra forced his retirement at the age of to the stigma associated wh homosexualy, Mike Bttler was not openly gay, although close iends, fellow racers, and fay were said to have been aware of his sexualy.

GAY DRIVERS F1?

Followg his retirement, Mike Bttler moved to the Uned Stat of Ameri, where he would later die of plitns of HIV/Aids on the 29th of September Current Formula One Drivers Are Gay?

GAY NATN’S TOP FORMULA ONE DRIVERS IN 2022

At prent, there are no Formula One drivers or practice drivers that have openly e out as There Gay Drivers Competg In Formula W? Unlike their male unterparts, there have been two female Formula W drivers who have e out as openly gay/lbian:Abbie Eaton is a Brish racg driver who raced unr Écurie W the 2021 W Seri and unr Scuria W the 2022 W Seri.

While would be difficult to discs all his gtur a sgle article, there are some moments of LGBTQ+ support that are worth 2020 and 2021, Lewis Haton wore a helmet adorned wh the rabow lors of the gay pri flag and the wordg “We Stand Together” at the Qatar GP. The reason was to take a stance agast the Kgdom of Qatar’s openly homophobic law, which Lewis Haton scribed as “terrifyg. ”Siar to Lewis Haton’s cricism of Hungary’s referendum 2021, Sebastian Vettel wore a gay pri-themed face mask and t-shirt at the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, along wh the followg statement:“Everyone has the same right to love.

PETROV: IF AN F1 DRIVER OUT AS GAY, WILL THEY URGE EVERYONE ELSE TO BEE GAY?

Although the FIA’s official stance on the broar LGBTQ+ muny and the importance of gay reprentatn Formula One, their cisn to renew/extend ntracts for Grand Prix openly homophobic untri has been met wh cricism om drivers, fans, and crics alike. ConclnIn ncln, while there are not any gay Formula One drivers petg prently and very few gay drivers across Formula One’s history/different divisns, there is support for the broar LGBTQ+ muny through Racg Pri and Formula One would dite a progrsive step forward for LGBTQ+ reprentatn and support, spe the FIA’s ntroversial cisns regardg Grand Prix approval and certa staff appotments.

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.

FLORION GOGA/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagRtersJun 8, 2022, 03:54 PM ETFormula One would now wele s first openly gay driver, acrdg to Germany's four-time 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+ 34-year-old father of three has also peted wh Racg Pri logos on his r.

VETTEL: A GAY FORMULA 1 DRIVER WOULD BE WELED, AND RIGHTLY SO

"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. "I feel that a gay driver would help to speed up the elimatn of prejudice and help ph our sport a better directn. "Blackpool forward Jake Daniels last month beme the first active male profsnal player English football 32 years to announce he is gay.

LONDON, 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. "Blackpool forward Jake Daniels last month beme the first active male profsnal player English soccer 32 years to announce he is gay.

VETTEL: F1 IS READY FOR AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER

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? It took him ne more rac to get on the top step of the podium, but as you see he is still near the top of our Gay Natn rears podium at number two on our list of top F1 drivers.

Is bee he has now been wh his girliend for a year (typil gays) or is that he has grown to a good-lookg mature young man who is drivg like a gun? A prev player on our Gay Natn list, Alex Albon got dropped om F1 for 2021 after failed stts at Toro Ross and Red Bull but is now back and performg as well as n be expected at Williams.

One of our most searched F1 drivers the past, mostly the search was “Is Albon Gay? The newt entrant to our Gay Natn list, as this, is his first year F1, but certaly worthy of a spot on our list after his performanc both on and off the track. "What if one of the drivers out as gay?

ARE THERE ANY DRIVERS OM THE LGBTQ MUNY F1?JUNE 23, 2022SARBIK DUTTAFORMULA 1, SPORTS NEWSTABLE OF CONTENTSTHE LGBTQ MUNY CELEBRAT THE ‘PRI MONTH’ JUNE TO MEMORATE YEARS OF STGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND EQUALYF1 AS A SPORT, HISTORILLY DON’T HAVE A HUGE REPRENTATN OM THE LGBTQ MUNY. AT PRENT, THE ONLY KNOWN GAY FORMULA ONE DRIVER IS MIKE BTTLER. BTTLER RACED UNR MARCH FORMULA ONE BETWEEN 1971 AND 1973. DPE LIMED LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN ON THE CURRENT GRID, MANY DRIVERS, ANIZATNS, AND THE FIA HAVE SHOWN SUPPORT TO THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.CREDS: GOOGLE IMAGMARKETA VONDROOVA MARRI LONG-TI...PLEASE ENABLE JAVASCRIPTMARKETA VONDROOVA MARRI LONG-TIME PARTNER STEPAN SIMEKMIKE BTTLER PETED 29 RAC, WH A TOP FISHG OF SEVENTH PLACE AT THE 1973 SPANISH GRAND PRIX. WHEREAFTER THE 1973 OIL CRISIS BRA FORCED HIS RETIREMENT AT THE AGE OF TO THE STIGMA ASSOCIATED WH HOMOSEXUALY, MIKE BTTLER WAS NOT OPENLY GAY, ALTHOUGH CLOSE IENDS, FELLOW RACERS, AND FAY WERE SAID TO HAVE BEEN AWARE OF HIS SEXUALY.IN FORMULA W, THERE HAVE BEEN TWO DRIVERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS OPENLY GAY/ EATON IS A BRISH RACG DRIVER WHO RACED UNR ÉCURIE W THE 2021 W SERI AND UNR SCURIA W THE 2022 W SERI. SHE IS ALSO KNOWN FOR HER ROLE AS A DRIVG AMBASSADOR FOR RACG PRI, AN LGBT RIGHTS CHARY WORKER FOR VAR ANIZATNS.CREDS: SIAR TO ABBIE EATON, SARAH MOORE IS A BRISH RACG DRIVER WHO RACED UNR HECH GP THE 2019 W SERI AND SCURIA W THE 2021 AND 2022 W SERI. ALONG WH HER RACG ACHIEVEMENTS, SARAH MOORE IS A DRIVG AMBASSADOR FOR RACG PRI AND AN LGBT RIGHTS CHARY WORKER FOR VAR ANIZATNS.WHICH F1 DRIVERS HAVE EXPRSED THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY?DPE THE LACK OF LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN ON THE CURRENT FORMULA ONE GRID, MANY OF THE CURRENT FORMULA DRIVERS HAVE SHOWN OPEN SUPPORT FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. TWO NOTABLE LGBTQ+ SUPPORTS/ALLI REGNIZED BY RACG PRI ARE LEWIS HATON AND SEBASTIAN VETTEL.IN 2020 AND 2021, LEWIS HATON WORE A HELMET ADORNED WH THE RABOW LORS OF THE GAY PRI FLAG AND THE WORDG “WE STAND TOGETHER” AT THE QATAR GP. THE REASON WAS TO TAKE A STANCE AGAST THE KGDOM OF QATAR’S OPENLY HOMOPHOBIC LAW, WHICH LEWIS HATON SCRIBED AS “TERRIFYG.”CREDS: MERCESSIAR TO LEWIS HATON’S CRICISM OF HUNGARY’S REFERENDUM 2021, SEBASTIAN VETTEL WORE A GAY PRI-THEMED FACE MASK AND T-SHIRT AT THE 2021 HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX, ALONG WH THE FOLLOWG STATEMENT: “EVERYONE HAS THE SAME RIGHT TO LOVE.”MORE F1 NEWSLEWIS HATON DON’T SUPPORT IOC’S CISN ON BLACK LIV MATTER GEAR DURG OLYMPICSMAX VERSTAPPEN LEFT SURPRISED AS HE REACH 100 RACE TONE WH RED BULLDAMON HILL LEFT AWE AFTER LEWIS HATON RACKS UP 100 POL F1 AHEAD OF 2021 SPANISH GPFOLLOW OUR DITED FORMULA ONE PAGE FOR STANT FORMULA ONE NEWS AND UPDATUFC 292: STERLING VS. O’MALLEY LIVE STREAM WITHOUT REDDIT STREAMS, BUFFSTREAMS OR CRACKSTREAMUFC 292: STERLING VS O’MALLEY ODDS, PREDICTION AND FIGHT PREVIEWNBA IN-SEASON TOURNAMENT 2023/24: SCHLE, GROUPS, FORMAT & PRIZE MONEY

"Will they go out wh a rabow flag and urge everyone else to bee gay or somethg? Are there or has been any gay drivers formula 1?

I wonr if there are drivers wh a homosexual orientatn. Formula 1 has difficulty marryg the fact they prent themselv to be a tolerant and welg anisatn, yet they still take rac to untri the world where homosexualy is a crime and punishable the most severe manner. This weekend se F1 travel to Azerbaijan to race and, whilst same-sex activy has been legal there sce 2000, there are no laws which protect people agast homophobic discrimatn, and there is no regnn of same-sex marriage.

"A GAY FORMULA ONE DRIVER WOULD BE WELED", FEELS SEBASTIAN VETTEL

"Now I thk a gay Formula 1 driver would be weled, and rightly so, " Vettel told Attu magaze. " ASTON MARTIN F1Vettel has heard homophobia wh F1Vettel went on to scribe how he had the past heard homophobic slurs and discsns take place the F1 paddock, pecially when he was a much younger figure the sport.

GAY NATN’S TOP FORMULA ONE DRIVERS 2021

"Homophobia is prejudice, and prejudice is wrong, really is that simple.

Sebastian Vettel says Formula 1 is ready for an openly gay driver, somethg he believ would help to speed up the elimatn of prejudice and ph the sport " a better directn". The four-time World Champn, who stands third on the list of all-time Grand Prix ws, will be the ver star of the July/Augt edn of Attu, the world's bt-sellg gay magaze. Homophobia is prejudice, and prejudice is wrong.

Formula 1 has no current openly gay drivers.