World champion Hamilton counters ex-Formula 1 boss Ecclestone
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After his crude statement that blacks are “more racial than white”, ex-Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has been heavily criticized. World champion Lewis Hamilton writes that some things are now clear to him.
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Bernie Ecclestone drives Formula 1 with his racism theories. The ex-boss of the racing series has followed suit in the dispute with world champion Hamilton. The conflict escalates out of time.
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AIn the last few meters before the tricky restart, Formula 1 was just lacking a racism uproar about ex-boss Bernie Ecclestone. “Ignorant and uneducated” are the explosive sentences of the long-time boss of the racing series, etched world champion Lewis Hamilton. As if the ghost start under corona conditions in Austria next weekend (in the sports ticker of the WORLD) was not already sensitive enough, Formula 1 is taking an explosive debate with him to Spielberg. The peaks of the PS spectacle hurriedly distanced themselves from the troublemaker Ecclestone, but the topic did not get rid of them so quickly.
In a rather strange and rather crude CNN interview, the 89-year-old claimed that in many cases black people were more racist than white people. Ecclestone coolly rejected the sharp criticism of his successors about managing director Chase Carey.
“I am glad that he said that I am not part of Formula 1, then you cannot be associated with things that they could not do,” said the 89-year-old Briton of the “Mail on Sunday” and recommended Carey to look after the shareholders. “Covid was good for him. He was able to justify everything he didn’t achieve, ”said the longtime boss of Formula 1.
Ecclestone: “Black people should take care of themselves”
In addition, he countered, Formula 1 was only “suddenly jumping on the racism thing because of the events in America”. In the past few weeks, world champion Lewis Hamilton had repeatedly supported the “Black Lives Matter” movement and complained about discrimination against blacks in motorsport. Formula 1 promised a stronger commitment to greater diversity before the restart in Austria next week.
Ecclestone said he had nothing against blacks, but added: “Black people should take care of themselves.” Hamilton had been stunned about sentences like this and wrote on Instagram: “If someone who has been involved in the sport for decades, so understands little of the profound problems black people have to deal with every day, how can we expect understanding from the people who work with him. ”