Seriously? #racism? I believe its to do with if they have to do scans or X-rays. And certainly not allowed during surgery. Do you remember being told not to wear Piercings in P.E?
Yes I was fishing with that. I was told a lot of things in the past but the teachers could beat you so that was more of a deterrent. Hamilton is right though they are just being silly at this point. Set the rule, sign a waiver and move on.
I agree mainly, the problem is if a driver is unconscious and rushed to hospital currently they shouldn't need to inspect someone's complete body from head to toe to check before they do a MRI scan as the scan can heat up any metal!! If they allow wavers then the hospitals would need to have the info before an MRI scan. Remember Massa being hit by the suspension spring? Say he had had an eyebrow stud, how easy would that have been to see before an MRI scan? I can see both points really - drivers know the risks and it's their lives but FIA are supposed to try and protect the drivers and all track side personnel - so it's just easy for them to ban jewellery. Banning it is, as far as FIA is concerned, the easiest option and the one without any risk! Then again the FIA weren't too good at protecting the track personnel when the track went green before the marshals had cleared the debris!!!
The FIA medical delegate will always travel with an injured driver to hospital and be involved in the handover of the driver's care to local medical teams. Usually they stay there for as long as is necessary. I can't believe that the FIA delegate doesn't have hugely detailed dossiers on the medical history of each and every driver for moments like this. Including a sentence to say there's a nose stud, etc, is no different to including details about metal pins, etc from previous surgeries. Mark Webber raced for half a season with a titanium rod in his leg, I'm sure there's other examples. It really should be a non-issue and something that can be handled privately between drivers and the medics. If medical advice is that the piercing, etc presents a significant threat in the event of an accident, then the medically-informed outcome should have been that Lewis didn't race this weekend. Clearly that wasn't the opinion of his doctor, who suggested he didn't remove it for this event. The FIA are making a big thing of this, which really can only be because it's a pet issue of their new boss. It's like they're sat in a burning building and worrying that the pictures on the wall aren't straight. There's so much more pressing matters they need to address.
Well the world and their mother knows always albon is allergic to anesthesia bow and the world know Hamilton has a tiny nose ring that'll burn the conk off the stubbor so and so. If we says he'll sign a waiver and gets injured well that's just his luck when they cut it out of him after an accident. Seriously this smacks of one new guy showing who's boss and singling out the one driver that doesn't fit in. As in the 7 times world champ with the dreads and piercings. The one with the mouth who won't stops saying things that need to be said.
Tricky one this, he would have known it was against the rules when he got them, but equally he would have known the rules weren’t being enforced. He should also have known/considered there was a risk this might change; however unexpected that might have been - in my opinion there comes a point where you have to accept that and get on with it. As a point of note, he’s not the only one to have been targeted, numerous drivers have had to remove wedding rings and religious symbols, this is dragging on now because presumably he’s the one individual who has not acquiesced.
It seems bloody pointless from all sides, but if he wants to keep it in, it's his body and the only person he'd be potentially affecting is himself. But from what I understand, there was something to do with an infection to the piercing or something, so he needed to keep a stud in rather than it being a protest... But either way, who cares?
The only thing really bloody annoying about the whole jewelry thing, is that it would be really nice if they could be as decisive on larger mattes/infringements as they seem to be with a nose stud.
What?? Different era to me. Piercings in PE? I can't remember even the girls having piercings at that age, all changed now I know. Even my daughters had piercings while still at school. What I do remember though, was the old 1 penny, 2 penny and 3 penny bangers. We had a lot of apple trees when I was a kid and short piece of scaffolding wedged at a slight angle in the ground, drop a fizzing 3 penny banger into the tube and slam an apple on top, the apple flew fairly high and far when the banger went off. I won't say what we were aiming at but a few came back! None of this piercing rubbish.
It is all; deflection from the shambles of Spa and the last race of last season in politics it is burying bad news while something is taking everyones attention