“I regret to see that today Lewis Hamilton joined the camp of international fake news”– Hungary’s Justice Minister attacks Mercedes superstar

Tanish Chachra | 02/08/2021
"I regret to see that today Lewis Hamilton joined the camp of international fake news"– Hungary's Justice Minister attacks Mercedes superstar

“I regret to see that today Lewis Hamilton joined the camp of international fake news”– Lewis Hamilton receives criticism for supporting the LGBTQ+ people in Hungary.

Ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel openly supported the LGBTQ+ community’s protest against the new law, which experts claim holds power to stigmatize the LGBTQ+ people in the country.

While Vettel dawned a pride t-shirt mask before the start of the race and wore the same theme mask on the podium, Hamilton, on his Instagram, went onto criticize the Hungarian government.

In response, a state leader Judit Varga, who holds the position of Justice Minister of Hungary on Sunday attacked Hamilton for his words against the recent move by the Hungarian government.

“I regret to see that today Lewis Hamilton joined the camp of international fake news producers by attacking our child protection law. The protection of Hungarian children remains the task of Hungarian parents and not of foreign racing drivers,” said Varga, according to HungarianFreePress.com.

“I myself learned the rule of the road from textbooks and not by following the media. Let me recommend Lewis Hamilton to read the Hungarian Child Protection Act before saying nonsense. Let the cobbler stick to his last and F1 driver to his race.”

“Good luck with the Hungaroring race!”

Lewis Hamilton wants to support Sebastian Vettel.

On Monday, Hamilton posted an Instagram story praising Vettel, in which he vowed to join his rival next time to show support for the LGBTQ+ struggles in Hungary but later deleted the story.

He re-posted the story with a different caption; the reason behind this move is unknown, but it seems like Hamilton wants to join Vettel in this movement, and we might witness a similar set of pre-race events in Spa at the end of this month.

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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