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• F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER - SEBASTIAN VETTEL
• SEBASTIAN VETTEL - F1 READY FOR AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER
• VETTEL: A GAY FORMULA ONE DRIVER WOULD BE WELED
• SEBASTIAN VETTEL: FORMULA ONE IS READY FOR AN OUT GAY DRIVER
• F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER, SAYS VETTEL
• SEBASTIAN VETTEL: IS MARRIED| IS GAY| WIFE| SALARY| NET WORTH

F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER - SEBASTIAN VETTEL

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. "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.

SEBASTIAN VETTEL - F1 READY FOR AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER

"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.

Sebastian Vettel - F1 ready for an openly gay driver.

Sebastian Vettel believ that F1 is now ready to wele an openly gay driver. Featurg on the ver of the July/Augt issue of Attu, the bt-sellg LGBTQ+ mpaigng liftyle magaze, Vettel reflected: “Perhaps wouldn’t have been the se the past, but now I thk a gay Formula One driver would be weled – and rightly so. gay men and the wir LGBTQ muny.

VETTEL: A GAY FORMULA ONE DRIVER WOULD BE WELED

Mike Bttler, a driver the early 1970s, is the only known gay male to have raced F1 but there has never been an openly homosexual petor. Sebastian Vettel feels Formula 1 would wele a gay driver, such has been the progrs wh the travellg circ. His activism earned him a spot on gay magaze Attu’s ont ver, the first F1 driver to feature on .

He told the magaze that he believ Formula 1 has progrsed enough that would “wele” a gay driver. “Perhaps that wouldn’t have been the se the past, ” he said, ” but now I thk a gay Formula One driver would be weled — and rightly so. “I feel that a gay driver would help to speed up the elimatn of prejudice and help ph our sport a better directn.

SEBASTIAN VETTEL: FORMULA ONE IS READY FOR AN OUT GAY DRIVER

So I do have hope, and therefore I would absolutely wele a gay Formula One driver. Asked if he knew of anyone on the grid, past or prent, who was gay, he replied: “No, but I’m pretty sure there mt have been some. Sce the first World Champnship Formula One event, the Brish Grand Prix 1950, there have been 771 drivers of 41 different natnali and yet only three of them have been openly (make that semi- openly) LGBTQ: Nicha Cabral, who raced four World Champnship Formula One Grands Prix the early 60s, lived a closeted life and fally me out as bisexual at 75; 70s and 80s driver Lella Lombardi, one of only two women to have raced a World Champnship Formula One Grand Prix, was a lbian; and Mike Bttler, who raced 28 World Champnship Formula One Grands Prix the early 70s, was a gay man.

Our story starts last summer, Hungary, jt after the untry’s Prime Mister, Viktor Orbán, troduced a new law banng “the portrayal or promotn of homosexualy to anyone unr the age of 18”. So proud that on arrival last December for the Grand Prix Sdi Arabia — where homosexualy is illegal — he was wearg his rabow sho aga.

That, so dog, we’d make Sebastian Vettel the first Formula One driver to grace the ver of a magaze for gay men and the wir LGBTQ muny gave a chance of some face time, we figured. Have you wnsed homophobia wh the sport?

F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER, SAYS VETTEL

Homophobia is prejudice, and prejudice is wrong. Do you feel the 2022 paddock would wele an openly gay Formula One driver?

Perhaps that wouldn’t have been the se the past, but now I thk a gay Formula One driver would be weled — and rightly so.

SEBASTIAN VETTEL: IS MARRIED| IS GAY| WIFE| SALARY| NET WORTH

I feel that a gay driver would help to speed up the elimatn of prejudice and help ph our sport a better directn.

Are you aware of any Formula One drivers, past or prent, who are or were gay but don’t or didn’t want to e out? What do you believe are the reasons for a gay Formula One driver to stay the closet?