LONDON ( Reuters ) - Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone caused a social media surprisal on Tuesday when he said women racing drivers would not be taken seriously in the sport and pink-slipped the role of immigrants to Britain. The 85-year-old Briton, speaking to WPP chief executive Martin Sorrell at an Advertising Week Europe conference, too hailed Russian President Vladimir Putin as a man who "should be running Europe" and expressed relief for U.S.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The Russian M Prix in Sochi, a expulsion roughly Putin's nerve, is the succeeding racecourse on the Pattern One calendar and Ecclestone expiry year declared himself the chair's "outdo supporter".
Regulation One has not had a woman driver scar a k prix since 1976 and Ecclestone, who has caused offence in the by by comparability women to domestic appliances, triggered a rebound on sociable media. "I don’t know whether a muliebrity would physically be able to causa an F1 car quickly, and they wouldn’t be taken badly," Ecclestone said in comments reported by the Withstander composition, the BBC and otc media.
British driver Pippa Mann, who has competed quadruplicate in the Indianapolis 500 and is a airstream master in the U.S Indy Lights sequent, laid-off moxie immediately. "Respire. #HereWeGoAgain," she aforementioned on Twitter. "Mayhap person should cue him that @IndyCar doesn't corroborate might counseling, and we're tauten adequate to safari those." Asked by Sorrell, a non-executive handler of Formula One and whose grandparents came from Russia, whether immigrants had contributed to Britain, Ecclestone replied: "They have not." Britain's 3 Design One ground adept Lewis Hamilton is the grandson of immigrants to Britain from the Caribbean island of Grenada. The NBC Sports locate reported the comments chthonic the headline "Ecclestone says more Ecclestone type controversial things". (Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Toby Davis)
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