While acknowledging the FIA's safety argument, Damon Hill says the drivers are adults, they should be allowed to make a 'personal choice' to race with jewellery or not. The FIA and Lewis Hamilton are facing a stand-off in the build-up to the Monaco Grand Prix weekend after the seven-time World Champion was given a two-week exemption on F1's jewellery ban. This season the sport's new race directors have decided to enforce the jewellery ban that has been in the rules for decades already, saying they are doing so on safety grounds. The ban come into force at the Miami Grand Prix but Hamilton, who has piercings that are welded in, could not simply remove him and he was handed a two-week...
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