Bernie Ecclestone, under fire after dismissing racial abuse of Lewis Hamilton in Barcelona earlier in the year as “a bit of a joke”, called for anyone found guilty of the offence to be banned from the sport for life


Saturday 15th November 2008

Bernie Ecclestone, under fire after dismissing racial abuse of Lewis Hamilton in Barcelona earlier in the year as “a bit of a joke”, called for anyone found guilty of the offence to be banned from the sport for life. “I want you to know that I’m not a racist,’ Ecclestone told the Mail on Sunday.”It came out wrong. I was having a shave when the radio station rang me, it was early in the morning, and I wasn’t really concentrating. No excuses, but I was careless in my choice of words. I mucked up. I rang Lewis and his dad to apologise and they accepted it immediately. They know I’m not a racist.’ When asked if he would call for anyone who blackens their face at a grand prix, or makes monkey noises, to be evicted in future and banned for life, he replied: “OK, I will. That’s what should happen, and I am happy for you to say that I want it to happen.”


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