Lewis Hamilton calls out FIA boss for ‘racial element’ over comments on ‘rappers’

Lewis Hamilton has called out FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem for a comment referring to rappers when discussing the broadcast of swearing in Formula One races – saying they had a “racial element” to them.Ben Sulayem, head of F1’s governing body, says he has asked Formula 1 to limit the amount of swearing – usually from drivers over team radio – on TV coverage of races. Swear words are currently bleeped out before being broadcast.The 62-year-old Emirati executive said: “We have to differentiate between our sport – motorsport – and rap music. We’re not rappers, you know. They say the F-word how many times per minute? We are not on that. That’s them and we are [us].”Hamilton, though admitting the sport could “clean up” foul language in broadcasts, was unimpressed with the connotations from Ben Sulayem’s remarks.“I don’t like how he’s expressed it,” Hamilton, the sport’s only black driver, said ahead of this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix.“Saying ‘rappers’ is very stereotypical and if you think about it, most rappers are black. So really pointed it towards we’re not like them.“So I think that was the wrong choice of words. There’s a racial element there.”It is not the first time Hamilton...