Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel say they will keep speaking out on issues.
The boss of Formula 1's governing body made a suggestion last week.
The sport is important to spark more conversations, according to Hamilton.
Diversity and environmental issues are bigger than the sport can ever be.
"Vettel drives a rainbow bicycle, Lewis is passionate about human rights, and Lando is addressing mental health," said Ben.
Everyone has the ability to think. It's a question of whether we should impose our beliefs over the sport all the time.
I am from the Middle East. I am a Muslim as well as an international one. I don't impose my beliefs on anyone else. It's not possible. It never occurred to me.
A day after the interview was published, he seemed to row back on his comments, saying that he believed in sport as a catalyst of progress in society.
Promoting diversity and inclusion is one of the priorities of my mandate. I value the commitment of all drivers and champion for a better future.
In the last few years, Hamilton and Vettel have spoken out on diversity issues.
Hamilton said it was positive that Ben had explained his comments.
He encouraged all the drivers to be more outspoken and use their platform after he said he was proud of his Mercedes team for using logos on their car to promote Pride month.
It is important for people to know there are lots of things we can improve on.
They made their comments in the official news conference.
There was an awkward moment when the drivers were asked if they had faith in the FIA.
They were joined by Alpine's Fernando Alonso and Williams driver Nicholas Latifi. They didn't want to answer the question initially.
Alonso said that he had full trust in the president of the sport's governing body.
"Maybe we saw a few things at the beginning of the year that were not as consistent as we wanted for," Alonso said.
I have full trust in the president that he will fix the things that need to be fixed, even though there is room for improvement.
Leclerc wants to see more consistency. We need to make things better.
It's a big role and big shoes to fill on Mohammed. He wants to do a lot of things.
The drivers' remarks come against a backdrop of increasing unhappiness within F1 about the way theFIA is running the sport, to the extent that Liberty has explored whether it could sideline the governing body, reducing it to a ceremonial role.
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