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Max Verstappen fans called Lewis Hamilton the n-word

Reports have emerged of yet more racist abuse being thrown at Sir Lewis Hamilton by Max Verstappen fans at last weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix. What started as an entertaining, if a little controversial, rivalry between Hamilton and Verstappen last year has descended into personal, abusive and abhorrent behaviour from some of their almost cultist supporters, many of whom got into Formula 1 through the toxicity of social media of the Netflix docuseries Drive to Survive. Cheers would be heard at last season’s British Grand Prix when Verstappen was sent into the wall after a crash with his title rival, and the same occurred again in Spielberg last weekend when Hamilton crashed in...
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