Silverstone, England – Lewis Hamilton called on Formula One to stop giving the sport’s old guard a platform after retired three-time world champion Nelson Piquet and 91-year-old former F1 head Bernie Ecclestone recently drew fire for offensive comments.
Piquet, 69, apologized to Hamilton, a seven-time world champion, this week for making a racially offensive reference to the Briton in comments from an interview in November that emerged recently. Ecclestone, meanwhile, defended Russian President Vladimir Putin as someone he would “take a bullet” for during a TV interview on Thursday.
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