A change to the International Sporting Code over the winter to prohibit “personal, religious and polit🍸ical statements” without written consent has ignited a row over drivers’ freedom of speech. 

The FIA is facing an increasing backlash, with reigning world champion168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Max Verstappen, Alfa Romeo’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Valtteri Bottas and Williams’168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Alex Albon among those to publicly state their concerns about the revised rule which appears to be directly targeting F1’s most outspoken driver,168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton. 

F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has insisted the sport 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:“will never put a gag on anyone” amid recent tensions between the world championship and its governingཧ b🐬ody. 

Asked if he would be prepared to break the rule and risk a sanction at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:launch of McLaren’s 2023 F1 car, Norris replied: “I d🃏on’t know what the penalty is! 

“If it’s a fine or something, I’m probably happy to ༒break it, if it’s a bit more, then not. It depends. 

"At ce𝓰rtain times there’s things we’re going to want to say, which maybe🗹 they don’t allow, but I think it would only be a positive thing for whatever that circumstance is. 

“I don’ꩲt know 100 percent what the ruling is and how everything is going to happen, but I feel like there’s been♑ quite a lot of pressure and enough said to maybe make a little bit of a U-turn. 

“F1 have made things clear with what they think is acceptable and what they think we should be able to🔥 do as drivers, and I guess that’s what I stand by. 

“I think we should be able to say what we wa🐽nt and what we believe in. I don’t know the penalties or exactly how strict it will be. 

“But we’re not in a school. We shouldn’t have to ask about everything and say ‘can we do this, can we do that?’ I thi𓆉nk we’re grown up enough to try and make smart decisions. 

“Maybe sometimes people make silly de🔯cisions, b𝓀ut that happens in life. I think there are enough drivers to have said things now to push back a little bit.”

Norris st🌠ressed free speech is “very important” and warned that a clampdown would turn F1 drivers into “robots”. 

“I don’t think F1 should g𒀰o in a direction with rules or the direction of limiting what we can do or say and influence 🐷us drivers because we are only wanting to do things for the best,” he said.  

"We don’t want to use it in any wrongdoing way. We are doing it because we have a lot of faꦆns, millions of fans, millions of viewers, who we want to influence, guide and use to help, or to help them personally. 

“We should have freedom of speech. We should be able to say and do we what we want - that’s what🌸 defines people, this is what creates us, what mak♎es us humans. 

“There always needs to be good reasoning to do so. It’s better when as a community, as F1, we come forward as a group. We give statements and so on, the drivers and ourselves should be able to have our own say in anything at the same time. As long as we have freedom of speech I think that’s something that F1 are supporti⛎ng then I am happy. 

“If things start to get blocked off and we can’t even talk and say anything then no one is going to want to do media because y🥂ou 𒆙just can’t say anything. Everything is going to turn into a robot and say the same things over and over again. 

“We need it. We’re just trying to help people in t𝓀he world, give advice and so on. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be able to do that."