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Lewis Hamilton says FIA president's promise ‘doesn't mean anything to me'

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has spoken against the recent wave of social media abuse, pledging to do as much as he possibly can to help against the online trolls after a steward received death threats earlier this week. Silvia Bellot was part of the stewarding team that awarded Fernando Alonso his 30-second post-race penalty in Austin, which was later rescinded. The decision making that day from the stewards was heavily criticised, but Bellot was subjected to a level of online abuse that no one should ever have to encounter. Ben Sulayem has called for every motorsport organisation and every country involved with the FIA to come together in a joint effort against online abuse,...
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