Lewis Hamilton has been exempted from the FIA's crackdown on jewellery over fears of disfigurement.

Ever since the crackdown was announced last season, the centre of attention has been the seven-time world champion who is known for his love of bling.

The Briton has constantly warned that removing certain items such his nose stud could cause an infection and all eyes were on the stewards heading into this weekend.

Today however, ahead of opening practice, officials announced that the Briton had been exempted having heard from a Mercedes representative and receiving a medical
report from the team's doctor, which had requested the exemption.

The stewards consulted the FIA Medical Delegate, who viewed the medical report, examined the driver and concurred with the opinion, consequently the stewards determined to take no further action as there are concerns about disfigurement with frequent attempts at removal of the nose stud.

Furthermore, despite a crackdown on perceived activism, Hamilton was given the all-clear to continue wearing a helmet sporting the Pride rainbow.

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1. Posted by Editor, 04/03/2023 11:35

"@ jcr

Re: "And FIA have lost control of F!"

Of which, much, much, much, much more... very soon. ;-)"

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2. Posted by jcr, 04/03/2023 11:29

"What I find amusing, No other way to put it !!, Mercedes make a Big issue about the return to Black (read Hammi colours) on the pretext of weight saving, Every Gram counts !!, ect.ect.
And then the driver arrives wearing X amount of Bling !!!
Can someone explain ??
Bottom line in my opinion,
Mercedes have lost control of Hammi,
And FIA have lost control of F!"

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3. Posted by elsiebc, 04/03/2023 5:49

"@Pavlo The rule was in place before Hamilton and definitely before his nose bling. Remember Antonio Liuzzi?
PS: my post at the beginning of this thread was pure sarcasm which I'm sure many missed."

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4. Posted by equator180, 04/03/2023 5:39

"Infection? OK deal with it. What is more important your nose stud style assessor or your F1 drive, simple as that. There are lots of things which could happen, least of which is Hamilton getting an infection from a fashion assessor."

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5. Posted by kenji, 04/03/2023 0:11

"@MadMatt...I'm 100% with you on this. The FIA are weak...as expected. Faced with a chance to show some backbone they backdown. Quite disgusted really."

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6. Posted by Pavlo, 03/03/2023 19:42

"I really don’t understand why they don’t add a simple sentence “drivers who installed the piercing before XXX date are exempted”.
It’s totally naive to think any F1 driver would not get a medical certificate for anything, as well as hugely unfair to allow Lewis something that other drivers will not be allowed to do. And obviously not nice to ban Lewis from the sport - which would obviously happen to any rookie with a piercing."

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7. Posted by Rock Doc, 03/03/2023 18:43

"At this point I don't see why they just don't add an amendment to the rule to say Hamilton is except from the rule and any other rules he has a doctors note for. "

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8. Posted by Burton, 03/03/2023 18:11

"That's a great message by the FIA to everyone on the lower formulas."

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9. Posted by Mad Matt, 03/03/2023 16:18

"I'm lost for words..... either there's a rule or there isn't, there is no reason to make exceptions. He shouldn't have got the piercing in the first place as the rule was already there and if he wants to avoid "disfigurement" then just take the piercing out and leave it out.

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10. Posted by Editor, 03/03/2023 15:38

"@ The Canadian

Spit coffee, eh... that's $50,000"

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11. Posted by The Canadian, 03/03/2023 15:35

"@Editor, I just spit coffee lol!"

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12. Posted by Editor, 03/03/2023 15:33

"@ The Canadian

Indeed, a $300m anti-disfiguration payment per nostril"

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13. Posted by The Canadian, 03/03/2023 15:27

"Lol! If it were Michael Andretti asking, we all know how that would go!"

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14. Posted by elsiebc, 03/03/2023 15:20

"Well, that's the only proper thing to do. It's not like the rule was in place before he got the piercings."

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