Tom Robinson

Trailblazer Hamilton already assured of a place in history

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mai...1/smgars01.xml

Under the cover of youth, Lewis Hamilton slips into the new year a
largely unknown quantity in British sport. By the end of 2007, the
face of Formula One's first black driver might well be up there with
football royals Beckham and Rooney in the society pages of Hello! and
OK!.

Hamilton is an industry waiting to happen. The default response from
the McLaren media office to requests for interviews is already no.
This protectionist rationale seeks to keep intrusion to a minimum –
the kid will have enough on his plate, McLaren claim, learning the
ropes at grand prix weekends.

[...]

A championship within a championship is emerging, as Hamilton debuts
alongside Renault's Heikki Kovalainen and Sutil. Robert Kubica of
BMW-Sauber and Super Aguri's Anthony Davidson have only a handful of
races between them. Nico Rosberg, a former karting team-mate of
Hamilton, is in his second year at Williams. These are the young men
against whom Hamilton will be measured, and theirs are the scalps he
must claim.

[...]

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Tom Robinson wrote:
> Trailblazer Hamilton already assured of a place in history
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mai...1/smgars01.xml
>
> Under the cover of youth, Lewis Hamilton slips into the new year a
> largely unknown quantity in British sport. By the end of 2007, the
> face of Formula One's first black driver might well be up there with
> football royals Beckham and Rooney in the society pages of Hello! and
> OK!.
>
> Hamilton is an industry waiting to happen. The default response from
> the McLaren media office to requests for interviews is already no.
> This protectionist rationale seeks to keep intrusion to a minimum –
> the kid will have enough on his plate, McLaren claim, learning the
> ropes at grand prix weekends.
>
> [...]
>
> A championship within a championship is emerging, as Hamilton debuts
> alongside Renault's Heikki Kovalainen and Sutil. Robert Kubica of
> BMW-Sauber and Super Aguri's Anthony Davidson have only a handful of
> races between them. Nico Rosberg, a former karting team-mate of
> Hamilton, is in his second year at Williams. These are the young men
> against whom Hamilton will be measured, and theirs are the scalps he
> must claim.
>
> [...]
>

And will claim

marcus

By the end of 2007, the face of Formula One's first black driver might well
be up there with.

Black? how can someone who is about 90% white be black?

Dave Ryman

"marcus" <nospam> wrote in
news:FfydnWAf2aWa21LYnZ2dnUVZ8rOdnZ2d@brightview.c o.uk:

>
> By the end of 2007, the face of Formula One's first black driver
> might well
> be up there with.
>
> Black? how can someone who is about 90% white be black?
>
>
>

This gets me, too - look at the winners of MOBO awards as an example.

I am actually rather uneasy about this attitude: In the bad old days,
racist scum (for want of a better word) would have talked about someone
being "tainted" with the blood of an "inferior" race. Surely, in a way,
this is perpetuating that warped view of the world: If you're 10% black,
you're deemed "black".

Another idotic example of this sort of nonsense was the recent news
coverage about the "black" candidate for the US presidency - he's
"black" (although his mother is white), and just to (apparently) add
extra credits to his "race card", his step-father is Muslim: Reported in
such a way as to suggest that Muslim is a race, and that genes from a
step father somehow mysteriously migrate to the child.

IMHO the race issue won't be resolved until someone's race doesn't enter
into the discussion at all. Having said that I have, for sometime, been a
little disturbed by the "sport" of two humans beating the sh*t out of
eachother being dominated by black participants, while a high calibre
sport like F1 is entirely filled by caucasians and asians.

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pete@nospam.demon.co.uk

In article <FfydnWAf2aWa21LYnZ2dnUVZ8rOdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk >
nospam "marcus" writes:

> By the end of 2007, the face of Formula One's first black driver might well
> be up there with.
>
> Black? how can someone who is about 90% white be black?

Who cares about skin colour or percentages? The quickest guy
with the best (and most reliable) package wins.

Pete
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we have borrowed it from our descendants."

Knight who says \NI!\

marcus wrote:
> By the end of 2007, the face of Formula One's first black driver might well
> be up there with.
>
> Black? how can someone who is about 90% white be black?
>
>

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Daytona

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:00:53 GMT, Dave Ryman
<dave_rymanNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote:

>IMHO the race issue won't be resolved until someone's race doesn't enter
>into the discussion at all

Hear, hear.

John Briggs

Daytona wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:00:53 GMT, Dave Ryman
> <dave_rymanNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> IMHO the race issue won't be resolved until someone's race doesn't
>> enter into the discussion at all
>
> Hear, hear.

Won't the Stewards have any say in the matter?
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Dave Ryman

"John Briggs" <john.briggs4@ntlworld.com> wrote in news:6y3Ah.5501$mn2.959
@newsfe7-win.ntli.net:

> Daytona wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:00:53 GMT, Dave Ryman
>> <dave_rymanNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> IMHO the race issue won't be resolved until someone's race doesn't
>>> enter into the discussion at all
>>
>> Hear, hear.
>
> Won't the Stewards have any say in the matter?

Wasn't that the arrangement MS and Ferrari had? (only kidding, was a big
fan!).

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