Bojan Vrbnjak
Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, will be in the future in international motorsport considered large limits for everything that will be related to Russia in Belarus.
Currently without races in Russia and Belarus
FIA and WMSC they decided that everything was planned international races in Russia and Belarus for now cancel. This means that in addition to the Formula 1 race for GP of Russia the race of the series is also canceled WTCR, which would also take place in Sochi. Flags, symbols and national anthems they are also currently banned from international competitions.
Racers are allowed to compete, teams are not welcome
Individual Russian and Belarusian racers are still in the future welcome!? at international car races. However, they will have to perform under the neutral flag of the FIA. Here it goes FIA in the opposite direction of the call International Olympic Committee, who admitted in 2013 FIA as a full member. MOK wishes that athletes from both countries should not be allowed to take part in international sports competitions in the near future.
While they have racers still a chance to race under neutral flags, but this is not possible with national teams or teams. So for example on FIA Motorsport Games no Russian or Belarusian team will take part. And the members have to be at the hut FIA to relinquish their positions with Russian or Belarusian citizenship. Mohammed Ben Sulayem, president of the FIA, reacted in shock to the events in Ukraine. "The FIA is following the situation in Ukraine with sadness and shock, and I hope for a quick and peaceful solution to the current situation,”He wrote in his statement
Much of the public is outraged by the FIA's actions
If the president of the FIA shocked responded to events in Ukraine and hopes for a quick and peaceful solution (how calm if bombs have been falling and people dying for a week now) and if they are at FIA sad what is happening in this country is its own sadness and indignation and shock to the accepted FIA action expressed most fans and experts. Especially because of the fact that it goes formula 1 here in its own way, financial pathways and that the word is mentioned too many times "for now“Which many understand as if Formula 1 leaders were reluctant to accept it. It upset the public even more claimthat athletes from these two countries areWelcome".
The wolf will still be a wolf under the neutral flag…
A significant quote from Formula 1 fans
True, yes sport and politics not supposed to mix, but here it is war. In Russian and Belarusian athletes in racers will also be under neutral flag represented their country, led by unprecedented tyrants who do not hesitate to trample with weapons also thinking differently own citizens.
