Lewis Hamilton has condemned Dr Helmut Marko’s criticism of Sergio Perez. ‘It is completely unacceptable,’ he said here in Singapore on Friday. ‘We say there is no room for any type of discrimination in this sport and there should be no room for it. The old colonial hotel – home of the gin-based Singapore Sling – is where you picked up Formula One gossip then, and still can now. Half a stone can be lost in the course of the race in sweating alone. But one thing they have never mastered is switching restaurant and bar opening hours to European time to suit the itinerary of this nocturnal race. Can something be done to address this most first world of problems?.

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