Former boss of Scuderia Ferrari now at the head of Liberty Medias, the company that owns the Formula 1 World Championship, Stefano Domenicali had the unpleasant surprise of receiving a dead dog at his desk.
Or rather a plush with red paint symbolizing the death of the animal sent by the association for the protection and defense of animals PETA.
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With this macabre shipment, the organization wishes to alert the Italian leader to the sponsorship of the media giant of a sled dog event on the tundra in Alaska, the Iditarod.
According to protest activists, this 1757 km race between Anchorage and Nome, known to be extremely tiring for teams in extremely cold conditions in early March, has been responsible for the deaths of 150 sled dogs since its inception in 1973.
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Nearly 200 dogs were withdrawn from the trail due to exhaustion, illness, injury or other causes, leaving the others to work even harder
", regrets the association PETA which invites the Formula 1 to cease support for the event with an annual check for $ 215,000 paid each year.
The American branch of PETA had mobilized for several years to put pressure on some big sponsors of the race.
Coca-Cola, in 2019, ExxonMobil in 2021, had thus announced their withdrawal from this historic race in Alaska.
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