PARIS, June 27 — World champion Lewis Hamilton labelled Bernie Ecclestone as “ignorant and uneducated” yesterday after the former F1 supremo claimed that “black people are sometimes more racist than white”. Ecclestone, who was F1 supremo for four decades, had been asked to comment on...
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PARIS, June 27 — World champion Lewis Hamilton labelled Bernie Ecclestone as “ignorant and uneducated” yesterday after the former F1 supremo claimed that “black people are sometimes more racist than white”. While praising the six-time world champion for his campaigning, 89-year-old Ecclestone doubted that the creation of the driver’s Hamilton Commission, which hopes to steer more black youngsters into motor racing, will have any great effect.“It’ll just make people think which is more important. I think that’s the same for everybody. People ought to think a little bit and think: ‘Well, what the hell. Somebody’s not the same as white people and black people should think the same about white people.
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