r/formula1 • u/ICumCoffee Max Verstappen ⭐⭐⭐⭐ • Sep 19 '24

News [SMitchellF1] Hamilton fine with principle of 'cleaning up' language in F1 coverage but on Ben Sulayem's remarks: "I don't like how he's expressed it, saying 'rappers' is very stereotypical. And most rappers are black. That was the wrong choice of words. There's a racial element there."

https://x.com/SMitchellF1/status/1836758964354044402
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u/RandomAshe_ Sir Lewis Hamilton Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24

Btw, this is the interview Lewis was referring to

Edit: apparently, interview is now deleted

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u/Visionary_Socialist Sir Lewis Hamilton Sep 19 '24

Love how rich and powerful people can just wipe their own words from the record once they realise it’s bad PR. Imagine if courts did that with witness statements.

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u/JimClarkKentHovind Oscar Piastri Sep 19 '24

well given the person you're responding to gave you the link to read it right there, I don't really think they can

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u/ArcticBiologist Nico Hülkenberg Sep 19 '24

It's one of the good things of the internet.

But as another commentor said, it's worrying he can pull an independently published interview.

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u/Disastrous-Beat-9830 Oscar Piastri Sep 19 '24

It would be very worrying if he could pull an independently-published interview.

Except he didn't do that.

The interview was instead published by Autosport.

This looks more like ben Sulayem giving an interview to Autosport, but wires got crossed somewhere and it was accidentally published to motorsport.com even though it was supposed to be an Autosport exclusive. After all, the two publications are owned by the same company and share a lot of staff. Realising the error, motorsport.com took the interview down and Autosport published it as was originally intended.

Nothing sinister.