‘Enough is enough’: Lewis Hamilton hits back at Bernie Ecclestone and Nelson Piquet

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Lewis Hamilton has called for Bernie Ecclestone and Sir Jackie Stewart to be censored, and declared “enough is enough” after Nelson Piquet’s racial slur. Triple world champion Stewart, 83, said recently that Hamilton should “resign” after struggling for results this season, while Ecclestone, 91, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Thursday that he would “take a bullet” for Vladimir Putin, also describing the Russian president as a “first-class person”. “It is not just about one individual, or the use of that term, but the bigger picture.” Hamilton, 37, continued: “I put to F1 and to the media that we should not be giving these people a platform - these old voices, who, whether it is subconscious or conscious, do not agree people like me should be in this sport. An F1 spokesperson said: “The comments made by Bernie Ecclestone are his personal views and are in very stark contrast to the position of the modern values of our sport.”