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F1 chief: Racists are 'third-rate people'.

Indexed: Fri Nov 07, 2008 @ 06:15:06PM 2 months 2 days ago

F1 ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone explains comments he made that seemed to condone racist abuse towards the sport's newly-crowned, first-ever black world champion Lewis Hamilton were misconstrued.

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sterling said...	8:43pm on Friday, November 7th, 2008
Just don't let the race relations industry invade our space. We don't have racial problems in our sport, don't let the professional racial rent-a-mob ruin our sport. Lewis is loved in the UK by his fans, quite rightly. Others in many different countries dislike him, some dislike him intently... but none of it is about race, its about his behaviour and attitude.

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