Sebastian Vettel’s reluctance to criticise Middle Eastern race hosts for their countries’ human rights records has now morphed into a full apparent muzzle. Although highly outspoken on a range of popular social, environmental and political issues of the moment, both Lewis Hamilton and Vettel were more muted when asked to criticise the Qatar regime recently. “It’s more of a question for the whole of Formula 1 and not just for me as an individual,” quadruple world champion Vettel had said in Qatar. When asked if he was looking forward to travelling to Saudi Arabia, he answered: “No.”. When asked to expand, he is quoted by f1-insider.com as responding: “I don’t know.

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