Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc and Kimi Raikkonen were among the six drivers who declined to take a knee ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix.
Ahead of the race, the opening event of the 2020 season, drivers displayed t-shirts carrying the message 'End Racism', which was also written on the start-finish line. Reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton, the sport's only Black driver, wore a t-shirt saying Black Lives Matter.
Before the drivers gathered together for the Austrian national anthem, the stood in a line. Fourteen of them took a knee, while six stayed standing. Joining Verstappen and Leclerc was 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen, Daniil Kvyat, Carlos Sainz and Antonio Giovinazzi.