FIA could have handled F1 jewellery ban differently, says GPDA's Alex Wurz

Lewis Hamilton is locked in a stand-off with the FIA after𒐪 new race director Niels Wittich reminded the drivers about a ban on the wearing of jewellery while competing in F1.
The seven-time wor♎ld champion has been given a two-race exemption to remove the nose piercing he says cannot be taken out without surgery but stressed at the Miami Grand Prix that he has no intention of doing𓄧 so despite the prospect of punishment.
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"I got an exemption here, I'll get an exemption for the rest of the yeaꦓr. Wedding rings are allowed," Hamilton, who did agre♛e to remove his earrings in the car, responded when asked if he would comply to the regulations.
While GPDA chai🥃rman Wurz, a former Benetton, McLaren and Williams F1 driver, has backed the ruling on safety grounds, he thinks the message could have been delivered more sensitively.

"It is a rule for the right reasons," Wurz told Reuters.&nbs🉐p;
💛"I would have probably liked a slightly different approach of how to deliver the message.
"I don't want to end up in football where there are more hands in the air and verbal abuse...you have to work together. It's a style I wou🍒ld have preferred in this case.”
As well as the clampdown on jewellery, the FIA is also enforcing the regulation that relates to the wearing of non-complaint unde🔥rwear as𓂃 part of a fresh push to stamp out driver misdemeanours.
Wurz recalled a talk he attended when he was younger given by former Danish driver Kris Nissen, w🌜ho survived a fiery crash in sports cars in Japan in 1988.
"He showed his body and said 'look at 🅺this’,” Wurz said.
"𒁏For him the absolute most painful thing after fire, and it wasn't a long fire, was the rubber 🀅[elastic] in his normal pants being burnt into the skin. He said [it was] for years agony and pain. And it educated me.
"At this moment I said I don't wa🌱nt to live these consequences, only for [not] taking my pants off and putting fireproof underp💟ants on. The same with jewellery.”

Hamilton faces penalty threat at Monaco
Speaking in an interview with The Daily Mail, FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem confirmed that Ham🌊ilton will face a penalty if he fails to adhere to the jewellery rule at the upcoming Monaco Grand Prix, when his exemption is due to expire.
“I love jewellery,' Ben Sulaye🦂m said. “I absolutely love it. But in the car there can be no choice. People say they (the rules) haven't been implemented before. Don't ask me why not. People can ask the old regime why that is the case.
'That's up to him. There are fines that apply. It's like if s♓omeone speeds on the roads - you can't stop them doing it but they get fined, even if it was accidental.
“You can't let people off because they are your friends. Tꦫhere has to be one rule for all, and that's that.”

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