Hamilton pleads for peace as F1 heads to Rwanda

What BBN said about it

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorLewis Hamilton stood up in Austin on Thursday and said, quote, free Congo, free Sudan, free Syria, free Palestine.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThat's after Formula One announced a ten-year deal for a Rwanda Grand Prix, expected to start in the early twenty-thirties, about forty miles outside Kigali.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWhich is the sport hearing him. He asked for Africa for years, and Africa is on the calendar.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorLook, Amnesty is calling it a sportswashing prize, and Congo's foreign minister says it polishes an authoritarian's image.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorI'm telling you, that's a family in crisis.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'd call it an early-stage stakeholder conversation with a ten-year runway.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorHe said himself, he doesn't get to choose where they go.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRight, so the league owns the venue and the driver only owns the steering wheel.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThat is exactly how a franchise works.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHis contract runs through twenty twenty-seven, and he says an African race could keep him driving longer. Ten years.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat's a long time to be told it's his car.