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Aston Martin deny silencing Vettel over controversial helmet

Aston Martin team boss Mike Krack has denied silencing Sebastian Vettel after arrived at the Canadian GP weekend with a helmet denouncing oil sands mining. Using his Formula 1 platform to bring attention to various environmental issues, Vettel targeted Canada's oil sand mining at the Montreal race weekend. 'I think, you know what happens in Alberta is a crime because you chop down a lot of trees, and you basically destroy the place just to extract oil,' he said. 'And the manner of doing it with the tar sands, mining oil sands, mining is horrible for nature. And obviously Canada's greenhouse gas emissions also have gone up since they started doing it.' He added: 'We'll have a special helmet...
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