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23 Jul 2014, 20:13 (Ref:3437121) | #51 | |
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Some UK politicians now calling for the race to be cancelled and apparently some sponsors privately saying the same, not cut and dried yet.
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4 Sep 2014, 16:43 (Ref:3450282) | #52 | |
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This is rearing into view again, the European Union are calling for the event to be boycotted along with other key sporting and cultural events. Now Ari Vatanen (supposedly in tune with Jean Todt) says that Todt is concerned about the viability of the race.
"It is an unprecedented situation since the second world war," said Vatanen, a former rally world champion and European parliamentarian, "and we have to ask ourselves how history will remember us and what we did or did not do. "Do we support the regime who is masterminding this bloodshed? Or do we say this is not correct? "It would send a message of acceptance if we went to Russia. It would say we condone, effectively, maybe not explicitly, but by our actions we condone what is going on because it is used in propaganda," Vatanen concluded. http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns28822.html |
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