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FIA president responds to F1 fans after online backlash
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem responded on Twitter to a wave of online criticism from F1 fans after he accused Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel of imposing their "beliefs" on the sport. In a recent interview with F1 website GrandPrix247, Ben Sulayem, after claiming that motorsport had become too political, was asked by longtime F1 media person Agnes Carlier what the sport "should not become" in the future. The FIA president delivered a rather strange response that not only ran remarkably counter to F1's entire quest for diversity, but one that completely ignored today's societal changes. "Niki Lauda and Alain Prost only cared about driving," said Ben...
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