Formula One drivers expressed unity in the fight against racism on Saturday but said taking a knee before Sunday's season-opening Austrian Grand Prix would be a matter for each to decide.
Formula One drivers expressed unity in the fight against racism on Saturday but said taking a knee before Sunday's season-opening Austrian Grand Prix would be a matter for each to decide.
The Grand Prix Drivers' Association said in an earlier statement all 20 drivers stood "united with their teams against racism and prejudice." "I think, potentially, people paying their respects in their own ways," added the sport's only Black driver who has campaigned actively against racial injustice and for greater diversity in Formula One.Sunday's grid procedures will be different to usual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with drivers maintaining their distance from each other.Grosjean said that while some drivers were not keen to take the knee, all would wear T-shirts declaring 'End Racism'.
"There was a little bit of perhaps difficulty with some drivers and let's say their nationality and what something like taking a knee would represent," he explained."The intention is for us to support it and we'll probably show that as a unit and then if a few of us choose to do something extra then that will be the case."
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