F1 will have clamped down on drivers making overtly political statements on the podium, according to former driver Vitaly Petrov. The Russian was referring to Mugello, where Lewis Hamilton wore a t-shirt calling on American police accused of shooting a woman during a raid to be arrested. Mugello was the first time he took an overtly political statement onto the podium and post-race interviews. “For me, this t-shirt, on top of calling for everyone to kneel, was too much,” Petrov told Championat. I think the FIA will no longer allow such behaviours,” said Petrov. “In Russia we have a different mentality, and we do not have the problems that Hamilton is talking about.

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