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Defending Lewis Hamilton on India and poverty

Photo by: www.kymillman.com/f1 I know what he meant. The dichotomy of what he witnessed in India near the palatial, purpose-built circuit was a challenging concept and sight to see. Abject poverty near a major investment manifest in a world-class racing circuit. Lewis Hamilton said: 'I've been to India before to a race which was strange because India was such a poor place yet we had this massive, beautiful grand prix track made in the middle of nowhere. I felt very conflicted when I went to that grand prix.' As you can imagine in this day of least common denominators and the mobocracy of social media, this didn’t go down well. It prompted an Instragram post from Lewis defending his...
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