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Article

5 Apr 2012

Author:
Paul Weaver, Guardian

Damon Hill voices fresh concern over staging Bahrain Grand Prix

The 1996 Formula One world champion Damon Hill has urged the sport to consider "the pain, anger and tension in Bahrain" before deciding to go ahead with the Grand Prix there in just over two weeks...Hill...said: "What we must put above all else is what will be the penalty in terms of human cost if the race goes ahead...[i]t would be a bad state of affairs, and bad for Formula One, to be seen to be enforcing martial law in order to hold the race.