Ukrainians appeal to the motorsport community. „To FIA, RGMMC, IAME Series, WSK Promotion, ACI, all ASNs and motorsport community around the world. To all my known and virtual friends, we shared venues with and had conversations with.”
„I, as a father of 13 years old Ukrainian driver the holder of FIA international license, urge motorsport organization, competitions promoters, team and track owners to sever any relationship with drivers, associations, entities with russian/belarusian roots or origins” – Mike Yaremiy wrote on his social profile. We have been able to observe his son many times on Polish tracks.
„As you already know, for the last 10 days my lovely country is suffering from brutal invasion of russian military forces with belarusian support. 24th of February 2022 at 4 AM in the morning, when kids were asleep – most of cities woke up in shock from blasts as a result of heavy shelling and bombing. People, living their peaceful life, had to seek shelters. We have so much fatalities among civilians, cities razed to the ground and infrastructures demolished. 10 days of horror and fear, and people dying every now and then. More than a million people were forced to leave the territory of Ukraine trying to find a safe place, many children were born in bomb shelters. There is no explanation or justification for such horror. Now not only the Ukrainian people, but the whole world is looking for a way to stop this madness, which should never happen again.
We, adults, having so much power and capabilities, could have prevented this. There should be no excuses and half-baked resolutions. The fact of allowing representatives of the above mentioned countries to compete and proceed with their sporting activities now means to support their countries aggression. When we are taking away their opportunity to show their flag, every child in Ukraine is under the threat of losing live. We need solidarity and support more than ever, here and now. Letting ru/by passport holders to compete and take part in sporting events with just a sticker change is a disgrace. When we had COVID in the world ALL competitions were stopped. Now, as we have a bigger disturbing event, staying aside or adopting weak decisions has no reason for justification. Any neglect, hesitation and disregard hurts, there are federations that have implemented sanctions and more sanctions to follow.
Federation Automobile de l’Ukraine
Motorsport UK
The German Motor Sport Federation
Haas F1
World Air Sports Federation
Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
and lots of companies/organizations are taking an adequate position, the list is getting endless now.
I am calling up teams (no matter of origin):
BABYRACE DRIVER ACADEMY
BIREL ART RACING S.R.L.
CRG RACING TEAM
DRAGO CORSE RACING TEAM
ENERGY CORSE SRL
IPK OFFICIAL RACING TEAM
KOSKI MOTORSPORT
KR MOTORSPORT
LECLERC BY LENNOX RACING
MODENA KART ASD
PAROLIN MOTORSPORT
TONY KART RACING TEAM
WARD RACING
and others to follow an examples above.
Please read, share and take responsibility to do the needed, we are very thankful in advance!
Mike and Oleksiy Yaremiy
Proud to be UKRAINIANS!
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