Lewis Hamilton believes the current F1 owners 'have more empathy' than the previous regime.
‘Lone ranger’ Lewis Hamilton criticises F1 under Bernie Ecclestone regimeLewis Hamilton has praised the new Formula 1 ownership for being “better” and having “more empathy” than the previous regime under Bernie Ecclestone.
The now 92-year-old Ecclestone ran F1 for 40 years after winning a struggle for power back in the 1970s, before Formula One Management was purchased by Liberty Media in 2016 and Ecclestone left the sport. Even as early as Hamilton’s debut season, he was increasingly at odds with Ecclestone over the latter’s behaviour, which he was forced to apologise for on several occasions.In June last year, Ecclestone responded to Nelson Piquet using a racist slur, for which he was fined £780,000 this week, by telling the Mercedes driver that he “should be happy” that Piquet had apologised.
It was around the same time that Ecclestone said he would “take a bullet” for the Russian President Valdimir Putin and suggested Putin “believed he was doing the right thing for Russia”, comments which caused the new ownership of F1 to distance themselves from Ecclestone. Speaking of his experience in the sport, Hamilton, who is the only black driver in Formula 1 history, said he did not feel like he could speak out under Ecclestone’s reign as he would be painted as “the angry black man.”
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