Racism, Bernie Ecclestone replies to Lewis Hamilton: “I am against blacks? I am not, quite the opposite”

Try a defense, which turns into an attack, Bernie Ecclestone, ended in the storm for his sentences on neri. Defined “ignorant” from the six times world champion Lewis Hamilton, the former boss of the Formula 1 reply to the pilot ea Liberty Media, who runs the circus of the single seaters and had distanced himself from his claims. “I’m not against black people, quite the opposite. I’ve always been very supportive, “he says in an interview with The Mail.

And he puts a series of comparisons to get out of that sentence (“Blacks are often more racist than whites”) that led Hamilton to attack him: “The father Lewis wanted to get into business with me, I wouldn’t even have considered it if I had been against blacks. Over the years I have met many white people that I didn’t like, but never a black person that I didn’t like. ” And again: “I have been robbed a few times, once from three blacks. I ended up in Hospitalbut even after that I was never against anyone who was black, “said Ecclestone.

Then the attack on Liberty Media, after the clarification of the company that manages the F1 on his assignment as honorary president now expired and the distancing from his statements: “I am felice who said that I’m not involved in Formula 1, at least I can’t be blamed of all the things they didn’t do, ”the 89-year-old manager’s lunge. “They jumped on this thing of racism suddenly because of the events in America – he added – Do you forbid me from competing? I wouldn’t advise them to do this. They could try it in Russia, but I think I could find a pass. “