Race, not Racing

Most of us are utterly indifferent about F1…

Yesterday Lewis Hamilton became the first British driver in more than 40 years to win the Formula One drivers’ championship twice. It was a year in which he won 11 of the 19 races, and sealed the title with victory in Abu Dhabi. This is an amazing achievement for a boy from a humble background in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, whose parents split up when he was just two years old. Highlighting how exceptional a story this is, his closest rival, teammate Nico Rosberg, is the son of a former F1 champion and was raised in Monaco.

Yup, it’s a great achievement. His first championship win was, too, likewise Jensen Button’s. But none of this makes F1 any more entertaining. It is, frankly, dull. And, frankly, it’s not that mainstream as a sport. Hence Hamilton’ apparent lack of popularity. Because, you see, this is written by the egregious little racist Joseph Harker, so it’s gotta be about race – not racing.

Added to this is the fact that Hamilton is the first and only black driver ever to make it into this sanctified world.

See? The rest of us merely see a talented driver and are indifferent to the colour of his skin. Not so Harker. For that vile creature, it is all about the colour of his skin.

Yet somehow, it seems, the British public has not taken Hamilton to heart. In 2008, when he seemed a shoo-in for the British public’s vote as BBC sports personality of the year, he lost out to cyclist Chris Hoy. The preceding British F1 champions, Damon Hill and Nigel Mansell, had each won the viewers’ vote twice – including years when they hadn’t even won the title. This year Hamilton will definitely be in the shortlist of 10 to be announced tonight, but the chances are that he will ultimately miss the main award again, with golfer Rory McIlroy the odds-on favourite.

Someone wins, someone loses and if Hamilton does not win, then it’s because he is black? Whitey ain’t gonna win this one, is he? Harker really is an obnoxious piece of shit. It doesn’t matter who wins the award – it’s just an award and isn’t important. What matters is Hamilton’s achievement on the track.

Ultimately, Lewis deserves recognition because his success goes far beyond sport itself. But if he never gains national acceptance through the sports personality vote, it will say more about Britain than about him.

No, it won’t. It won’t say anything about either him or us, you vile racist scumbag.

6 Comments

  1. Do any of them actually drive the car or are they just there for show?
    If they do it can’t be long before they are taken completely out of the loop.

  2. Since I hardly ever peruse The Grauniad, I haven’t come across Mr Harker before:- he really is a nasty piece of work, isn’t he?

    As if there aren’t enough troublemakers/offendees/outragees around already twisting things to fit in with their own delusions…

  3. Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton for being able to drive his million pound car better than others could drive their million pound cars (and thanks to those team mates who blocked and obstructed other teams drivers, as well as selflessly slowing down so our boy Lewis could speed past and take the chequered flag). Chris Hoy’s bike cost a bob or two but if it wasn’t for his physical stamina, he’d be mending bikes in Halfords, so he deserved the accolades. Lewis adorns himself in a Union flag but lives outside the UK and pays taxes to a country other than the UK. He appears to be British only when it suits him. Should this preclude him from even being nominated as the sports personality?

  4. FFS. Hoy won because it was an olympic year and he got three gold medals.. the greatest ever performance by a British athlete in a single games.

    Rory will win this year because he won two majors, helped win the Ryder Cup, and was the best in the world in a sport where more than two participants get to play with the best kit.

    Lewis is brilliant, and I reckon he’d be champion in any year where he got to race with a car at least as good as the other top drivers (no fear of that this year, as Alonso and Raikkinen we’re apparently competing in 1988 Ford Escorts). Winning the ever-overblown BBC award is about timing, as well as achievement. Nobody was ever going to top a Brit winning Wimbledon. Rory could have won all the majors this year, but would have lost out if Wayne Rooney (or, *shudder*, a BLACK player) had scored a hat-trick in the world cup final. Mansell and Hill won in non-Championship years because nobody else achieved anything better in a suitably high-profile sport. Them’s the breaks.

  5. I’m still amazed that the Guardian, filled with race-hate conspiracy theories as it is, did not manage to express amazement that Hamilton won despite driving the best efforts of the Ayrian Mercedes-Benz with thier other German driver, to marginalise him and in doing so maintain the domination of the white master-race.

    In every other respect the article was complete bollocks too.

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