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.
Contents:
- LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH: MIKE BTTLER - FORMULA 1'S ONLY KNOWN GAY MALE DRIVER
- GAY NATN’S TOP FORMULA ONE DRIVERS 2021
- GAY NATN’S TOP FORMULA ONE DRIVERS IN 2022
- THERE ARE MORE 'OUT' GAY RACG DRIVERS THAN YOU THK
- F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER - SEBASTIAN VETTEL
- F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER, SAYS VETTEL
- PETROV: IF AN F1 DRIVER OUT AS GAY, WILL THEY URGE EVERYONE ELSE TO BEE GAY?
- ARE THERE ANY GAY F1 DRIVERS?
- VETTEL: A GAY FORMULA 1 DRIVER WOULD BE WELED, AND RIGHTLY SO
LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH: MIKE BTTLER - FORMULA 1'S ONLY KNOWN GAY MALE DRIVER
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. * gay f1 drivers *
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.
GAY NATN’S TOP FORMULA ONE DRIVERS 2021
As we return to racg after the Northern Hemisphere's summer break 's time to give you Gay Natn's Hottt Formula One Drivers of 2022. * gay f1 drivers *
"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. "In the Uned Kgdom, was only 1967 that homosexualy was legalised between two nsentg adults private.
GAY NATN’S TOP FORMULA ONE DRIVERS IN 2022
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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.
THERE ARE MORE 'OUT' GAY RACG DRIVERS THAN YOU THK
Formula One would now wele s first openly gay driver, acrdg to Germany's four-time world champn Sebastian Vettel. * gay f1 drivers *
"'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. "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. Gay Natn fans love his style and after seeg his Netflix performance this year is assured we will see lots more of that personaly at Aston Mart 2021.
F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER - SEBASTIAN VETTEL
Are there gay F1 drivers? 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.
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F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER, SAYS VETTEL
93 people Formula 1 are gay which nfirms the sexualy of Alex Albon and Jaime Alguersuari. 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.
PETROV: IF AN F1 DRIVER OUT AS GAY, WILL THEY URGE EVERYONE ELSE TO BEE GAY?
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?
ARE THERE ANY GAY F1 DRIVERS?
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. On Tuday, Raphael Orlove and Bill Caswell posed the qutn on Jalopnik, “Why Aren’t There More ‘Out’ Gay Race Car Drivers?
VETTEL: A GAY FORMULA 1 DRIVER WOULD BE WELED, AND RIGHTLY SO
2024 Hyundai Santa Fe | First LookOffEnglishEvan Darlg is an openly gay driver known bt for his efforts road racg.
In an exclive terview wh Queers4Gears, the current NASCAR Sprt Cup Champn, Brad Kelowski said, “I don’t thk anyone r (if a driver is gay.