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Vettel goes quiet after dropping ‘climate' helmet

Jun.20 Sebastian Vettel on Sunday was in no mood for questions about his suddenly-missing 'climate crime' helmet. Earlier in Montreal, the quadruple world champion was slammed by Alberta's energy minister Sonya Savage after Vettel blasted the mining of 'tar sands'. He had ridden a rainbow-coloured bicycle into the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve paddock with a custom-made t-shirt blasting 'Canada's climate crime'. Vettel, 34, then practiced and qualified with a corresponding helmet that told Canada to 'stop mining tar sands'. Minister Savage accused the German of hypocrisy as a gas-guzzling Formula 1 driver 'with financing from Saudi Aramco', a company 'with the largest daily oil production of...
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