Sutil: Hamilton punishments could be racism
Adrian Sutil has spoken out in defence of Lewis Hamilton, saying that the punishments he receives could be a manifestation of racism. The Force India driver wrote in his weekly column for a Dutch magazine that he was mystified by the number of penalties the world champion appears to get.
“I have no idea how he (Hamilton) has got so many punishments. Slowly you start to ask yourself why it always happens to him. Is it his skin colour?” reads the article, in the Dutch magazine ”Formula 1 Race Report”.
Sutil is himself of mixed race parentage, like Hamilton. In raising the question, Sutil is controversially putting forward the idea that the sport’s governing body suffers from institutional racism. It is not the first time the powers-that-be have been accused of being soft on racism – Bernie Ecclestone’s response to racist treatment of Lewis Hamilton in Spain last season was that it was ”probably a joke.”
Although Hamilton fans will seize on Sutil’s words as evidence of a conspiracy, there is unlikely to be either an internal or external FIA enquiry into racism in the sport. The issue is delicate, as Hamilton critics would argue that not penalising Hamilton when he had been found to have done wrong would be favouritism.
john | Apr 14, 2009 | Reply
Compare this ingrates’s response to being caught with that of Schumacher’s in monaco 2006. Schumacher didn’t say that Ferrari made him do it and that as a result he is contemplating leaving the team. He took the grid penalty, got on with it, and finished 5th. An example of a true racer.
Now, Hamilton on the hand, is a political backstabber on par with Brutus. He will say anything to get himself out of or others into trouble. “It was all Ryan’s fault he made lie.” I bet he used this one a lot at school: “Miss, it wasn’t my fault, my dog ate my homework.”
Trulli is just another one Hamilton’s victims, just like Alonso was at Hungary 2007.
And this whole spy story that hamilton had no clue that mcclaren were stealing ferrari’s data is as believable as his latest lie. Why would mcclaren tell de la rosa and alonso but not hamilton?
And every time the FIA doesn’t comply with his petulance he threatens to quit.
In Japan 2007 when his behavior behind the safety car was rightly questioned, he threatened to quit. in the 2008 pre-season when he encountered racists he threatened to quit. And now, when he is about to be punished for cheating and defrauding trulli out of a podium, he has once more threatened to quit.
I say enough with his empty threats and that, for once, he should follow up on them.