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Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel
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Sebastian Vettel has tightened his criticism of Formula 1's reaction to climate change.
In view of the regulations fixed until 2025, he missed sufficient steps towards more sustainability, said the four-time world champion in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
"That is neither sufficient nor timely," says Vettel.
"We have all the options, we have the money, the resources, we could do very sensible things with them," said Vettel.
He can understand resistance, especially since for some investors "rapid change can appear to be a defeat".
"More and more under pressure"
He can understand the increasing criticism, not only in Germany.
The racing series expands worldwide "the interest in the races also in countries where no Grand Prix takes place", so it is "foreseeable for a long time that Formula 1 will come under more and more pressure".
However, Vettel cannot imagine the timely return of a race in Germany.
"There will be no 30 million dollars from the state, as is customary in some countries," he said: "Politicians see more important things.
Funding seems unthinkable to me at the moment. "
Vettel firmly rejected the accusation of hypocrisy in his work for the environment: “It's not about me, it's about the matter.
It must be in the foreground, "he said:" In my opinion, the strongest role model effect is one's own actions. "Anyone who does not exemplify one's own attitude becomes a hypocrite.
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