Using colour as a racist slur is rich coming from the Spanish who's country were ruled for 400 years by the Moors, hardly a 'white Race',

So that's why they chanted racist slogans because he wasn't very sporting and big-headed????????

Well all is justified then!

 

Thanks for your useless input into this debate

The FIA should monitor this abuse closely. Spain has a record of racial abuse going back many years, as I know peresonally.

DDD

And I suppose just because everyone doesn't agree with you there useless too!!!!!!!!!!   they  all can't be wrong!!!!!   Or can they????????????????????

Just my point of view to which I am entitled.

Just seems justifying racism to point out another seperate trait of the fellow seems a bit rich.

But you are perfectly welcome to encourage this sort of thing if you wish!

Right, so that's clear. If I follow you right then if someone has 'an attitude' or 'is big-headed' it's OK to call them and their family '****ing blacks' is it?

I think you need to have a good think about what you're saying old son. This is motorsport in the 21st Century, not Johannesburg circa 1985 or Virginia circa 1795.

Switch on.

if you read my orgional spat I said it had nothing to do with colour just the person and his attitude, but then again if you only read what you want to. then what can you expect!!!!!! I really think you have the problem

I remember when i was younger being "cocky" and "clever" because i knew it all (or so i thought?), and then coming down to earth with a bang!, even now i see younger people with cocky and clever "attitudes" because they think they know it all, but that does not give anyone the right to racially slur them, there is no place for racial abuse in sport or in life!, we all live , breath and bleed the same ,as well as having emotions and feelings!. It is wrong for anyone to attack or slur anyone's ethnic origins and this should be stamped out worldwide. I dont normally rant but if people really look into this as a right or wrong decision you will find that morally this is wrong for many reasons.

It's bizarre: the Spanish seem to be laid-back and cosmopolitan when compared to the loutish Brits who infest the Costas. And yet they appear happy to turn a blind eye to an overt public demonstration of racial abuse designed to be shocking and hurtful which would undoubtedly attract a criminal conviction in this country. I suppose that it's indicative of a greater cultural divide between us and them than most people suspect.

If the Formula 1 authorities are serious about combatting scenes such as this, they will simply suspend indefinitely all activity, including Grand Prix, in their sport in Spain. Don't hold your breath. Commercial considerations will of course prevail, a tough-sounding reprimand will be issued, and Spanish 'sports-lovers' will be free to continue in their racial abuse of black footballers and athletes until the next incident. Formula 1 should act decisively, or they imply that Hamilton (and consequently all black competitors and fans in whichever sport) is on his own as far as they are concerned.