Your personal Tumblr library awaits
I cannot imagine the position the teams and drivers are in and would never want to be in. (This is just my take on it and apologies for the long rant) I don’t hate the drivers for them ultimately deciding to agree to race. I honestly don’t. This is a “damned if they do, damned if they don’t” situation. They run the massive risk of not being able to leave the country if they speak out. Yes, these are rich athletes, but think about their teams, their engineers, etc. It’s possible these people could have an even more difficult time trying to leave. They need to think about the teams as an entirety here and even if they did want to speak fight for their message, the risk greatly outweighs them. There aren’t going to be army forces rushing in to save them from god knows what they could be subjected to at the split second this happens. If recent events have taught us anything, there would be a great number of casualties before something even happens to try to get these people out. I just hope and pray for the utmost safety of the drivers and their teams and that this finally wakes up the FIA to do something and cancel this godforsaken Grand Prix and make sure it doesn’t see the light of day ever.
People should stop blaming the drivers for deciding to race. First, they didn't hold out for 4 fucking hours just for the funsies. Clearly they didn't want to race. And second, I too would drive around that dangerous as fuck circuit in the middle of a warzone if I was threatened with the possibility of never leaving the country if I didn't do as told.