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• F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER - SEBASTIAN VETTEL
• ARE THERE ANY GAY F1 DRIVERS?
• F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER, SAYS VETTEL
• GAY NATN’S TOP FORMULA ONE DRIVERS IN 2022

F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER - SEBASTIAN VETTEL

Homosexualy is illegal the untry and n lead to jail time. No mcg words, 's not jt a logo, this is the team g out and sayg they support LGBTQ+ equaly and are workg wh Racg Pri to promote more cln and diversy wh their team's munitn director, Matt Bishop, is openly gay and wrote last year that, when he was first workg F1, a driver lled him a "fat f*ggot.

""It is great to see Aston Mart givg this issue support – there is a long road ahead, but I’m really pleased we n play a posive role, " Vettel 's only been one, known gay male driver Formula One; Mike Bttler, who peted the early '70s and tragilly beme one of the victims of the AIDS crisis 1988. There's a lot of wrong thkg about ; that an openly LGBTQ+ racer would lose sponsors, for stance, as though the sle of global brands seen F1 uld get away wh droppg someone for beg gay or trans.

ARE THERE ANY GAY F1 DRIVERS?

F1 rac several untri (Rsia, Sdi Arabia) where beg gay is illegal and others (the UK, where most teams are based and Azerbaijan, where this weekend's Grand Prix will be held) where LGBTQ+ rights have seen ser challeng recent years. That was the type of reactn Richard Morris was equently met wh durg his early racg reer when he told people motorsport paddocks that he was gay. “Essentially, I felt as a gay driver that motorsport hadn’t necsarily been the easit environment for me to be out , ” Morris told The Race.

“Also, bee I hadn’t seen succsful LGBTQ+ people the sport before so I didn’t have a role mol to base myself on of an active gay driver to look to and see their succs and try to emulate that. “Often I felt isolated as a gay driver bee I didn’t know of other LGBTQ+ people the paddock, I often felt I was the only one and so didn’t talk about .

F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER, SAYS 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.

"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.

But have there been any openly gay Formula One drivers? At prent, the only known gay Formula One driver is Mike Bttler. 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?

GAY NATN’S TOP FORMULA ONE DRIVERS IN 2022

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.

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? 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.