Bernie Ecclestone blasts Lewis Hamilton ahead of F1 Bahrain Grand Prix: “Older generation not interested what he has to say”
Hamilton is still navigating new FIA guidelines about “personal, religious and political statements” being made by♈ drivers in the paddock but has vowed to continue speaking out abou💮t issues close to his heart.
Last year, Ecclestone told h🤡im to “brush off” racist comments by Nelson Piquet - and Hamilton questioned why “older voices” are still given “a platform”.
Ahead of the 2023 season-opening 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 Bahrain Grand Prix, ex-F1 boss Ecclestone told : “🐭Maybe the older generation are not interested in listening to what he has to say.
“In general, the older generation have see𝕴n a lot more, done a lot 💟more. Maybe, when the older generation are making statements, and some people think they’re correct, he doesn’t like it, because it’s taking up the space that he would normally have.
“So mꦕany things in the world have changed. And the older generation can remember the changes. ♉;
“For the y𝔍ounger generation, it’s not the things from the past that they want to remember.
“People now have much more freedom to be heard. It’s all this telephone business. You or I could put somethingᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ on the phone now and it would be seen worldwide.”
The 92-year-old said about H𝓡amilton’s social activism: “People don’t go to a Formula One race to have 🌼a lecture.
“Defin🌌itely drivers should have free spee꧋ch, but it’s a case of when and how they use it.
“It’s wrong. I༺t’s all completely wrong. I’m ⛎100 per cent against it.”
Ecclestone sold F1 to Liberty Media in 2017.
Earlier this week, he claimed that the ‘crashgate’ scandal of 2008 m🏅eans Hamilton’s first championship should not cou♛nt, and he should be recognised as a six-time champion rather than a seven-time champion.
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